Semiconductor hobbyist trying to build a fab

Joined May 2026
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Tim retweeted
Hiring founding software and firmware engineers for my company. $100 K-$250 K USD 1-3% equity. Waterloo / SF, hybrid. Founding Software Eng: simantic.dev/apply/1 Founding Firmware Eng: simantic.dev/apply/2
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May 25
Want to see distributed computing explained via Pong? Inspired by TinyTPU and TinyTapeout workshop at FOSSi, I wrote a paper under a week pairs this demo with a proposed next-gen optical I/O chip architecture & a roadmap to prototype it. Read it on GitHub: github.com/llhtimlam/tt_um_l…
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Tim retweeted
Hey @PalmerLuckey want to know where the real engineers in North America are? Waterloo, Canada. In the @akatoshouse community, there’s a guy who built a transformers model from scratch just by reading the paper. It took over a year and he literally rediscovered the gradient vanishing problem from first principles, amongst other things There’s another guy, a chemical engineer with zero background in hardware or chip design, who learned to code then meticulously researched and wrote a paper on building a next-gen TSMC from scratch (releasing Tuesday) And a 3rd guy who is designing and engineering autonomous construction fleets from our basement People in this city understand how to make real things. Come take a look someday 🫡
May 24
.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via @HooverInst
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