GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initiative

Re:GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initia... by sitkack on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:06PM (#32337128)

I blame George Lucas for this.

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Re:GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initia... by mkl on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:20PM (#32338999)

Star Wars confused parsecs with a unit of time, not light years.

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Re:GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initia... by slater on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:25PM (#32339015)

FYI there's apparently some retcon stuff about that, e.g. maybe the Kessel run is around a particularly dangerous area of space (black holes or w/e), so accomplishing it in LESS parsecs is something to brag about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initia... by zem on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:51AM (#32340678)

an earlier retcon was "that was Lucas's subtle way of showing that han solo talked a lot without necessarily knowing what he was taking about"

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Re:GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initia... by Thorrez on Thursday August 04, 2022 @12:29AM (#32339375)

1 parsec ~= 3.26 light years

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Re:GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon initia... by sitkack on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:51AM (#32343669)

> you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time, and light-year is a unit of distance.

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