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#652 – For a couple weeks there…
- You may have noted a few weeks off in September…Chris was busy with a new kiddo!
- Starship launch was awesome, but Blue Origin might beat them to market?
- Chris has been troubleshooting some boards he had made recently. It was pre-baby so sleep deprivation can’t explain some of the screw ups!
- PCB Carolina was a local tradeshow
- TechTechPotato talks about layoffs at SiFive. Article about the layoffs.
- RP1 show
- RetroPie
- Oversupply in the market is hitting some silicon vendors
- Dr Michael Burry (highlighted in The Big Short) has been shorting the semiconductor industry
- At the end of the movie the epilogue talks about how Dr Burry is watching water as well, possibly why he’s shorting semis?
- Chris wondered if Steve Sanghi mentioned why they’re still in Arizona while he was on the show
- Nuclear Diamond Battery video
- SnapEDA
- Scotty does a tour of the WorldSemi (makers of the WS2812B) factory, it’s awesome!
- Ben Hencke of ElectroMage makes the PixelBlaze, which is a great way to drive LED strips
- Dave was talking to past guest of the show, Andrea Morello, about future changes to Quantum computers
- China is turning off exports of Germanium and Gallium, which could impact the upstream supply for the chip industry, including around specialty semis.
- Breakdown
- Bunnie writes about why the US shouldn’t put restrictions on RISC V (agree!)
- KiCon has happened in Europe and China now, check out the talks on the KiCad YouTube channel.
- Future (distributor) was acquired by WT Microelectronics out of Taiwan
- Check out this 1975 tour of a UNIVAC manufacturing plant