U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

Re:U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce by RealityVoid on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:16PM (#36014725)

Hah, having worked in automotive, things are dysfunctional as shit. Oh, they ship things, sure, but mostly as a consequence of sheer will of plowring man-hours in thins untill they kinda work.

Curious what was your experience operating in those fields.

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Re:U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce by ilyt on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:36PM (#36014894)

And here I was wondering how manufacturers can take a thing that works and make it not work in new engine version.

Shit like "we did chain driven timing and it worked, but in new engine it prematurely wears", or "someone decided it is fine for belt-driven timing to take dip in oil, oh surprise, we now have parts of the belt landing in various parts of the engine".

Or my favourite, "metal, belt driven water pump is almost never replaced thru the lifetime of the engine and it's cheap, let's make propellers plastic and also drive it from separate electric engine"

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Re:U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce by sandworm101 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @06:55PM (#36016399)

Forget chains. Gear-driven cams are best. My motorcycle had them, but honda switched to chains in the new models because cam gears made a small high-pitched noise.

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Re:U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce by ilyt on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:30AM (#36021950)

For RPM for sure, although I'm not really fan of the noise.

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