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swiley
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Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com b...
No one can innovate when they can’t understand. No one can understand when they can’t read the data sheets for chips they don’t use.
Want people to build things with your crap? Don’t fight them when they try.
adammunich
on Feb 6, 2020
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This absolutely. The chip people always make custom protocols for /everything/.
swiley
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Custom protocols are not really the end of the world, it’s when they make a custom protocol and then use copyright to force you to do certain things in order to use it.
lowdose
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Are you talking about NVIDIA and their Cuda stack or some another manufacturer?
adammunich
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They really do slow down development though, and flrxe you to hire specialists who can make sense of the often terse datasheets.
selectodude
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Wouldn't a lot of the complexity be due to the fact that these are likely the most complex pieces of engineering on earth?
makapuf
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Complexity and nicely written datasheets /doc are tractable. Obfuscated docs and average complexity is cryptic.
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Want people to build things with your crap? Don’t fight them when they try.