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throwmemoneyon Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

Has anyone with joint pain tried accupuncture? Friend swears by it when she went to Tokyo, Japan to get it done a couple years back, 2018 if I recall correctly.

She recovered without taking any medication!

Edit: updated typo and extra info about not taking any medication.

throwmemoneyon Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

The price history data shows that the retailer is using AI to increase prices of items in and around pay day in Europe.

throwmemoneyon Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

Last I heard was hard disks and SSD manufacturers were moving away from ARM to RISC-V to save money on ARM license payments.

Source

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=swerv

throwmemoneyon Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip

“A single SoC (Software on Chip) may include features to enable daily mobile usage such as image processing, computer vision, neural network-related calculations, camera streaming, audio and voice data.“

Should be SoC (System on Chip)

throwmemoneyon Kissat SAT Solver

SAT Solvers are used in software that is used in creating the very complex Silicon Chips. Known as Formal in the semiconductor design industry.

throwmemoneyon AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings

Have you heard of the billion dollar unicorn from England, United Kingdom called Graphcore?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvU0uwIafQ

https://www.graphcore.ai/products/mk2/ipu-machine-ipu-pod

throwmemoneyon Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t

The problem with ARM is when a customer asks to add a single new instruction, ARM say yes sure, that will be $10M+ please dearest customer.

No wonder everyone is jumping the ship over to RISCV.

Soft Bank did not do its due diligence, did anyone at SoftBank hear of RISCV before buying ARM in 2016?

The writing was on the wall since RISCV ISA was made open source.

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From my previous post

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=throwmemoney

throwmemoneyon Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012)

https://www.deepchip.com/items/0547-01.html

SO... since Synopsys, Inc. does NOT have patents on the hand optimization techniques that every 2nd year engineering student knows how to do with paper and pencil like logic manipulation, truth tables, and Karnaugh maps; and because of the 2014 SCOTUS Alice vs. CLS Bank decision it now means Synopsys can NOT patent logic equation manipulation, truth tables, and Karnaugh maps that are done by computer.

Did you get that?

Again in general EDA terms: because of this recent Alice decision, all those EDA patents based on simply implementing an everyday design or verification technique in software is NOT enough to make it a patentable invention.

This means a great many active EDA SW patents are actually now invalid!

All this because Aart de Geus sent his lawyers on a pre-emptive attack vs. MENT in his EVE acquisition. It's this one particular SNPS lawsuit that opened the doors for Alice vs. CLS Bank to come into EDA. Too funny! :)