• @Gradually_Adjusting
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    841 year ago

    The tech is apparently so outdated that it’s next to worthless. What’s the $5m for? Funeral arrangements?

    • @Treczoks
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      361 year ago

      Office equipment. Maybe some nice PCs and servers.

    • ZILtoid1991
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      81 year ago

      You might can use their equipment for manufacturing legacy products.

      • @Treczoks
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        191 year ago

        The problem is: They don’t actually produce anything. They are fabless.

          • @Treczoks
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            61 year ago

            They design the chips and the software needed to work with it. They write the code in a HDL (Hardware Definition Language) and test them in simulation runs, and when everything works, they synthesize the chips’ masks from it.

            • @Tangent5280
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              41 year ago

              Oh, ok. So like an architect makes the blueprint and then sends it off to the engineers to build.