It used to be that a chip engineer would design an integrated circuit by hand drawing a few dozen pages of schematics using standard templates, the resulting patterns X-ACTO knifed out of plastic film. But with transistor density doubling every 18 months, this manual process couldn’t scale and was eventually replaced with a technology called […]
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Introducing: scuttlebits!
Hi Everyone, After eight years of writing this blog, I’ve come to realize that habitual [...]
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[SES.TO] From Wellhead to Landfill: How SECURE Built a Duopoly in Oilfield Waste
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