구글 Nano Banana가 보여주는 AI 시장의 새로운 패러다임

https://aisparkup.com/posts/5185

In the late 1970s, there was a huge push toward unmanned, hypersonic, hypermanoeuvrable fighter aircraft, like the Rockwell HiMAT. Today, technology exists to deploy such air assets, but no one is willing to stick his neck out to propose a complete removal of human pilots from cockpits. We need that human judgement, especially when lives are at stake.

I look upon the #LLM like I do the HiMAT: automatic code generators are there, but there will always be a need for those who know what that generated code does—human #programmers.

To think a bit more deeply, AI code generators are rather inefficient. If they do indeed work as well as the MBA-equipped #IT managers proclaim, why not eliminate #programming entirely, and have the AI generate #ASIC, or at least #FPGA?

And therein lies the rub: the AI is nowhere as reliable as the MBAs make it out to be. And the technologists who know how the AI actual works knows it cannot replace programmers. But try telling that to the MBAs.

Australia Tightens Crypto Rules Under AFSL

https://www.olamnews.com/economy/2677/australia-crypto-regulation-afsl/

Macquarie has agreed to pay back $321 million to ~3,000 investors after admitting it breached its obligations in the collapse of the Shield Master Fund. Meanwhile, thousands more across the First Guardian & Shield collapses could lose over $1 billion in retirement savings.

#Australia #Superannuation #SuperCollapse #ASIC #Macquarie #Finance #RetirementRisk #BrokenSystem

https://www.news.com.au/finance/superannuation/macquarie-to-pay-back-aussies-321m-after-shield-master-fund-collapse/news-story/1f8ea084a647af8c347aff1b209b71b2

Мы запускали майнинг-пул на десятки тысяч ASIC-ов. Вот что пошло не так (и почему это было гениально)

Запускать в 2025 году свой майнинг-пул? Серьёзно? Все крупные игроки уже поделены, битва за хешрейт давно закончилась. Но наш клиент пришёл не за «очередным пулом». У него был парк в десятки тысяч ASIC-ов, разбросанных по разным уголкам планеты , и конкретная бизнес-задача — не просто майнить, а делать это с максимальной эффективностью и контролем. И он понимал, что типовые решения его не устраивают. Вот тут-то и началось самое интересное.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/950432/

#майнинг_биткойнов #майнинг_пулы #asic #stratum #высоконагруженные_системы #grafana #clickhouse

ASIC accuses RACQ of misleading customers over insurance renewal notices in Federal Court action

The corporate watchdog has sued an insurer over sending out 570,000 renewal notices that it claimed did not…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #asic #AU #Australia #federalcourt #industry #insurance #insuranceindustry #JohnMonks #lawsuit #premiums #qld #Queensland #racq #regulator #sarahcourt
https://www.newsbeep.com/140331/

So here are the photos of the actual chip, taken with a microscope. The black rectangle censors my name. I placed a steel ruler next to the chip in one of the photos to give you an idea of how small it really is. Each black line corresponds to 1 mm

The artwork on the chip is from OggyTheFox (@oggythefox.bsky.social on Bluesky)

In the second picture, you can see that there's always a second chip next to my chip. I don't know what kind of chip it is or why it wasn't separated from mine, but it at least makes the whole thing a little easier to handle because it makes it physically larger x3

I have five chips without a package and five have been bonded into a package, so I'm currently designing a PCB so I can test if the chip works :3

#electronics #asic #asicdesign

Almost three years ago, when I was still studying at university, I attended a lecture about the design of custom chips (ASICs) and I had the opportunity to design my own custom chip back then. Now, almost three years later I finally have the finished chip in front of me and can take some pictures of it :3

(It took a while before they put it in production, the actual desing only took about two months)

I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get access to a microscope to take photos of the actual chip, but here are some pictures taken in the design environment

Because I had to design the entire chip on my own and within a limited time frame, I chose something not too complicated for the design. The circuit is a 7-segment decoder for 4 different digits with an integrated counter and internal multiplexing

The entire chip is 1.9 mm high and 1.4 mm wide and was designed using a 350nm technology. The first image shows the entire chip (the inner logic surrounded by the IO ring with all the bond pads). The second picture shows the actual logic in close-up. Here you can see all the metal layers that connect everything together. I can't show you any of the silicon layers unfortunately e.g. where and how the silicon is doped and the polysilicon layer used for the transistor gates. Sharing this information is prohibited by the manufacturer of the chip (I had to sign a NDA).

I of course couldn't resist to add some furry art on the topmost metal layer :D

I used a script to convert every pixel of the original image into a metal square of a certain size and place it on the chip in the desing software. It was not easy to get the artwork design rule compliant, but with some manual rework I manged to do so ^^

The image on the chip is only roughly 700um high and 400um wide (0.7mmx0.4mm) (the slots in the scarf are necessary to comply with the desing rules), so it's probably one of the smallest physical furry artworks in existence x3

I really hope that I can take some good photos of the chip and the artwork tomorrow, but I'll have to see if the microscope has enough magnification

#electronics #asic #asicdesign

I got inspired at orconf, so now https://play.spade-lang.org supports a full in-browser flow for submitting to tinytapeout.com/

Still experimental, so if you try it and run into any issues, let me know :)

#tinytapeout #asic