MEP EP#248: Keeping The Spirit Costs Extra

Parker

• AMD to buy Xilinx for $35 billion in stock
  • Wasn’t that long ago that Intel bought Altera
  • Why such a merger?
  • Sharing topography, technology, and manufacturing techniques
• Tariffs and the Election
  • Engineers and Manufacturers have been decoupling from China for the last 4 years
  • The big question is what happens next.
  • If Biden wins, are the Trump tariffs gone? Or will we keep them? What happens if Trump wins?
• Tesla self driving
  • Imagine learning there is no autonomous driving and it's just a bunch of dudes mechanically turking your car
  • This could be the end game with Starlink. Work from Home Uber to drive cars!
  • Johnny Cab

Stephen

• Revitalizing old products
  • What and how to “modernize” electronics
  • Design decisions
    • Through Hole vs SMD
    • Component Placement
    • Design for machines
    • Packages
  • Keeping the spirit of the original
• Beware of single sourcing
  • Semiconductor facility fire