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They developed MP3.

They most likely found a source for NOS (new old stock) chips. I find it highly unlikely that they started another run.

Considering the age of the chip, the masks are probably not even available in a digital format and the fab that made it had been shut down a long time ago. Recreating these processes is a massive undertaking that takes a lot of manpower.

Because he can.

That's the only answer.

"The hand-coded x86-64 AVX code is from 1.0× to 2.4× faster than the best C code (which is the AVX model code). This speedup was not as impressive as hoped."

Curious. So assembly optimization does not really help that much with modern CPUs?

Already happening. The activity in the TOF-field is crazy.

First project Tango smartphone will be out soon.

Maybe something to consider when then next "I am 28yo and a senior software developer. Is $170k salary enough or should I ask for more?" thread pops up.

It looks like this is EXACTLY what is needed to distrupt this abusive industry. There have been numerous attempts of enforcing a change in positive ways - open access journals, campaigns by researchers and so on. But none of these had any effect.

Let Elsevier go down in flames. I have published more than 50 academic papers and have actively avoided Elsevier. To be honest, this was not too difficult, as they have a lot of journals addressing specialized subtopics that rather seem to appeal to manuscripts that were rejected in first tier journals.

Surely it is a noble goal for a state or a religious community to fund scientific endeavours. But in absolutely no way they should be connected by content.

Even in the western world, I am not aware of a single example where a religious community is funding research without taking influence and without using it to advance their own goals. There surely is no shortage in dubious research institutes funded by christian sects or even more moderate entities.

There is little disagreement in the scientific community about keeping science separate from religion and preferrably even the state.

Science is supposed to stand in its own. Neither state nor religion are relevant here.

Religion does not have a place in science.

I think the word "modern" is misplaced here. All of the listed microcontrollers are more than a decade old.

IRC is just a really old protocol back from a time when security was an afterthought.

I like it. It is raw and functional.

Nah...

- why does "return" eject the card?

- You would more likely get a card as a return. Because that's basically what the computer did back then - sort cards.

-Introduction of decimal numbering system -Primes from 2 though 89 -The biggest mersenne prime known back then

This breed does not seem to be as rare as the article makes them out to be. I can find them for $10 in the local classifieds...

Did they claim it was magnitudes faster and 1000x more durable than NAND? I think not, since it is still the same concept...

RRAM was there first, and it will previal.

Lets just forget about this "memristor" PR-nonesense. HP did as well. (Their activities seem to be dead)

Thank you!

This way I know that it is sufficient to read the first paragraph.

This would only be truely anti-establishment, if multiple companies were doing it using the same brand without any brand protection.

Lack of branding is still a brand...

Also, Revision releases:

http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1550&when=2015

After closing all of the big legacy industry research Labs, at the end of the Millennium, there seems to be some Kind of delayed second wave right now.

Is this really a discussion worth having? How is it different from the last one?

I believe this kind of trend has been known for a while and was a main reason for not introducing helment laws in Germany.

Home computers? Something US missing...

No, simply no.

ICs are made of monocrystalline silicon, not polysilicon. There have been massive efforts to understand how to make it cleaner (internal gettering) and how to get wafer mechanics under control (Nitrogen doping). That does not even touch the changes in production technology to go from 10 mm Wafers to 300 mm Wafers. (You just make them larger, right...)

A lot of new concepts and materials have been introduced to ICs during the last decades. Especially since the 130 nm ground rule, lithography has not been the main limiter. Examples: Copper, Tungsten, Diffusion barriers, Silicide, Strained Silicon, High-k, metal gates, finfet, 3d integration etc...

Uhm no, absolutely not. The basic operational principle remained the same, but absolutely everything has been changed many times over. Trillions of dollars were invested to make it happen.

The only constant is probably that it is still made on a silicon wafer. But even this wafer changed a lot, and I am not talking about its size.

Would you also compare a horse carriage to a Tesla?

These guys operate on the premise that ideas are cheap and exeuction is all that counts. The excell at execution like hardly anybody else.

"one of the largest" is surely hanseatic understatement.

It is the largest.

No Ferrari is the best one ever.

Why would any affluent techie buy a Ferrari?

Do it, then return.

That does not work with companies dealing in physical Goods ... At all