Jon Masters

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Troublemaker | Computer Architect | @Arm Servers Architect @Google | Former DE @RedHat | Former VP @Nuvia_Inc | Runner | Author | All views my own | #ArmServers
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Cheers!

A huge surprise of this election cycle has been seeing VCs and tech CEOs embrace a candidate that is anti-immigrant. The typical Silicon Valley tech company has over half its STEM workforce being foreign born.

Tech companies used to brag that their workers are their greatest asset but between the layoffs and alignment with xenophobic policies. this is a mantra of a bygone era.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5187926/u-s-science-could-suffer-if-trump-limits-h-1b-visas-again

Great to see so many Open Source friends in California this week. I had so many long overdue conversations and even got to noodle ideas for how to bring back the kernel podcast sustainably (yes using “AI” but not in the core content, for the production)
The U.S. chip industry is bigger than one company. Look beyond the end of your nose and you’ll find an amazing wealth of innovation still happening in America. The U.S. integrated electronics industry is on the cutting edge of so many amazing innovations driving the world forward 👍
@jfbastien It’s also good to push hardware vendors to stop making dumb parts and firmware developers to stop making dumb decisions. Making a DSP without an 8-bit load/store ability is a poor choice, it isn’t 1994 anymore. Running C++27 on your 13-bit-word engine is also a terrible idea.
The concept that we should cater to all bad decisions forever is silly.

My first paper has just been published in the IEEE solid state circuits magazine!

Tiny Tapeout: A Shared Silicon Tapeout Platform Accessible To Everyone

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563670

If you're not a member, you can read the pre-print here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattvenn/tt-ieee-paper/main/paper_TT.pdf

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine | Current Issue | IEEE Xplore

One of my all time favorite posts to LKML, in which the author seriously suggests mitigating the Y292B “bug”. No, not 2038, the year 292 *billion*: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202407041[email protected]/T/
proposition for fixing Y292B bug

This is a fantastic way to end the week 🥰
$ARM > $INTC for the first time this morning

A friend recommended a newsletter for executives in tech and today's issue had a link to a blog post advising tech leaders on how to get better at asking questions. It had this... illustration...

I am confident the author had no idea how much this graphic torpedoed my trust in them. I am realizing that people who use AI art often don't understand how art works