Apple’s A5 chip made in Austin

Posted on December 17, 2011 by admin

Although I think it might have been designed here too.

The A5 processor – the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics, according to people familiar with the operation.
One of the few major components to be sourced from within the United States, the A5 processor is built by Samsung in a newly constructed $3.6 billion non-memory chip production line that reached full production in early December

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/16/us-apple-samsung-idUSTRE7BF0D420111216

 

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Richard Stallman speaks

Posted on October 30, 2011 by admin 
A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice.  If it is tea I
really like, I like it without milk and sugar.  With milk and sugar,
any kind of tea is fine.  I always bring tea bags with me, so if we
use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.

If I am quite sleepy, I would like two cans or small bottles of
non-diet Pepsi.  (I dislike the taste of coke, and of all diet soda;
also, there is an international boycott of the Coca Cola company for
killing union organizers in Colombia and Guatemala; see
killercoke.org.)  However, if I am not very sleepy, I won't want
Pepsi, because it is better if I don't drink so much sugar.

There’s more. A lot more.

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Dennis Ritchie

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Truly a brilliant engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

 

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