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Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by wombatpm on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:52PM (#25877916)
So is that going to be M as 1000^2 or M as 1024^2.

(still bitter about the whole GB vs GiB think caused by marketing people)

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Re:Chipmaking Is Being Redesigned by MrPatan on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:19AM (#25880876)
To be fair to marketing people, they were correct, weren't they?

Deciding that in your field you're going to redefine standard units and their abreviations is a bit lazy.

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