Cores, Digikey, Electronic Design - The Commercial Competitor Commencement

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• WotW
  • Dino (who now has a uStream channel for his workshop)
    • Modular bench
    • Bench with dresser drawers
    • Bench with old Tek scope!
  • Mitch (@mitpatterson)
    • Bench with etching tools laid out
    • Panorama of home lab
• Shoutouts
  • DigiKey and Electronic Design Magazine have a new show!
• Rants
  • DigiKey and Electronic Design Magazine have a new show!
  • We don't want to register for new shows or for engineering calculator apps for phones.
  • The people who claim to have an idea that will "make millions" but want you to build it for them...because they can't.
• Follow-Up
  • Intel 14nm fab going to be made possible with new EUV tools.
• Discussion Points
  • Intel wants to charge to upgrade the performance of your existing CPU.
  • Europe wants the chip fabs to come back. Apparently, they just figured out that manufacturing is important.
  • Why are 9V batteries still common in cheapo DMMs?

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