The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#652 – For a couple weeks there…

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  • 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
  • “off by one letter” error while ordering parts
  • PCF85063BTL vs PCF85063ATL
  • 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
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