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Exactly, gross salary.

It's true you can't really compare directly like that, but just as an example let's normalize the data on the point of vacation/holidays. EU: 52 wk / yr * 5 day / wk = 260 days / yr 35 holiday / yr = 225 working / yr 260 / 225 * 65 = 75.1k per year normalized

vs USA: 10 holiday / yr = 250 days / yr 260 / 250 * 160 = 166.4k per year normalized

Here we can see how even when considering something like holiday: the difference is still not even remotely close.

You're absolutely right about the 'peace of mind' aspect. This is something that I really love and will definitely miss... But let's not fool ourselves. For example it's common knowledge in Germany that the state retirement will only cover about 50% the cost of living. Not sure about the situation in France, but this means I still need to do a huge amount of self-saving and investing just to live at the bare minimum.

In the end I completely hear your argument and can understand it.... It's just everything in life is pretty gray and situational.

Note: if anything I have said is wrong, definitely let me know! Nobody is perfect!

As an American living in Germany for a few years now, this is something I really struggle with.

In short, it's because Europeans are content with lower wages.

I am in a "high-demand" job as an electrical engineer at a publicly traded medical company, and getting less than €65k. This is absolutely absurd in my opinion, but in discussions with friends/colleagues they feel it's overall typical.

One colleague was in shock when I said I expect to break €100k within the next few years (Sr level)... But was also completely unaware of any basic public company financials (average value of employee is ~$350k), or salaries in our USA office (~$160k).

Unfortunately, my value is not related to anything other than my cost of replacement--since my neighbor thinks €65k is acceptable, that's what I get.

Company performance, employee benefits, healthcare, taxes, etc do play a role.... But it's nowhere near the salary gap.

Help me spread the word OP. Tell all your friends. Start demanding more. Mercedes recently announced all employees would get raises matching inflation. It's a good start but honestly we need to recognize this as the bare minimum, not like they are heroic and progressive.

Ps: Hope nobody minds me dropping numbers. I have no insecurities and don't care, but believe it can be a good help for the discussion.

I would argue probably not. GaN has a higher bandgap voltage (3eV iirc... 1eV for Silicon), which means a CPU would need to be run at a higher voltage.

As a quick rule of thumb for huge transistor count ICs: Power (heat) = freq*Voltage^2

I won't go into detail, but you can see how for a CPU designer decreasing voltage is critical to increasing speed. Remember a decade ago when CPUs were like 1.2V and we hit this ~3GHz "wall"? But now due to breakthroughs in process nodes, CPUs are running I think ~0.8V but boosting up to 5GHz.

If we make the same CPU on a GaN process, the transistors would probably need ~3V to switch, and thus need to be run about 9x slower to meet the same package power (or I guess you could run it at the same speed but then try and figure out how to cool a 9x higher TDP CPU).

Furthermore, GaN is difficult to manufacture into a monocrystaline perfect lattice compared to Silicon. You can image that for modern 7nm/5nm nodes, where there are sometimes angstroms of distance in a transistor, having a foundation full of defects can be devastating to the yield.

Power electronics is a totally different domain with different challenges. In this area GaN excels, but for ICs I don't think it makes sense. Let's see in 20 years though. GaN is relatively new compared to Silicon and might just need some further refinement.

Just my 2c though. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

This has always been the case, regardless of any Tesla involvement. This just makes the correlation between safe driving and lower cost a little less abstract.

It will be interesting to see how this develops. Will they begin selling this data? I imagine it's valuable for rental car agencies, ride-share apps, etc etc.

It probably is contextual, no? For example:

I would think it's fun little icebreaker if you are applying for a position making cute iOS games.

However if you are applying for a position developing power-plant control systems it's a bit inappropriate.

> Why does one need to reverse engineer a Raspberry Pi?

For fun probably!

> Isn't it fairly well documented? In terms of installing linux to a sdCard, basic IO manipulation, serial interfaces like i2C SPI, sure. The GPU, no. It has actually always been famously a closed-source/closed-hardware black box.

This is fine for an intro to embedded systems and kids, but when you really want to take your hardware/low-level-software knowledge to the next level it can be frustrating.