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  • A microchip, even something as simple as an Arduino -- which is an atmega 32 -- is literally impossible to make in your garage. The machines that make the chips have multi million dollar HVAC just to get the dust out, before they even worry about the hardware.

  • Just to be clear how far behind the "hobby" microchip scene is, not to take anything away from the accomplishment, but the chip he made can't do 1 + 1 yet. Don't get the wrong idea from only reading the article title. No one is making pi chips in their garage.

  • Also on top of what other folks are saying, making a complete modern computer is really fucking hard.

    No one is making a 3ghz CPU in their garage. Maybe folks are assembling stm32, or pis, or whatever into their own pcbs, but the machines that make the chips just aren't hobby level yet. You just have to buy some stuff.

    Maybe that's not your point. Maybe you're okay with the processor being closed because it is fucking hard to make.

    Beyond the hardware now we're talking making your own drivers and shit. There are resources out there like zephyr, but there's millions of devices that aren't covered.

    Try writing your own SPI interface for an established MCU and a common periferal. Make sure you include crc, don't skip it. Maybe skimp and do i2c. It's fucking hard.

  • What's the pop ratio us vs China? Ball park 400mil vs 1.4 bil?

    That's like us is 30% just for an easy number.

    So there's like 1 us people to 3 or 4 China people.

    And somehow this sector is 1 to 50. That's wild.

    Most people I know barely know how to use excel and they'd die before leaning xlookup. Let alone Kali or something to run some ops.

    I know a little about this world. Uncle in the Navy communications side. They have programs for this stuff. Marines can pick their field or whatever and they have a program too. Seems like a pretty simple fix to make those orders pay better if they really need bodies.

    Seems like some wild numbers to throw around. Like 50 to 1 feels a little China outnumber us type xenophobic.