Comment on Russian Chipmaker Baikal Goes Bankrupt, Assets Valued at Only $5 Million

• misterundercoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, baby. You’re fabulous.

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• Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait, then what DO they do?

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They design the chips and the software needed to work with it. They write the code in a HDL (Hardware Definition Language) and test them in simulation runs, and when everything works, they synthesize the chips’ masks from it.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, ok. So like an architect makes the blueprint and then sends it off to the engineers to build.

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      • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly.

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