#chip-programmer

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[transxfiles]

if elon musk ever tried to put a chip in my brain i'd end up killing either him or myself. one of us has to die for that.

[cidthecoatrack-blog]

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[tmms2ser]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--analog--drivers--motor-drivers/l298n-stmicroelectronics-5532882

Brushless DC motor driver, Dc motor driver, what is a motor driver

L298 Series 46 V 2 A Dual Full Bridge Driver Vertical - Multiwatt-15

[crlos2alll]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--analog--drivers--motor-drivers/l298n-stmicroelectronics-5319967

STMicroelectronics, L298N, Drivers Motor Drivers

L298 Series 46 V 2 A Dual Full Bridge Driver Vertical - Multiwatt-15

[ctis2sherr]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--logic--74-series--a-hc-t/74hc594d-118-nexperia-1604081

74 A/HC/T Series Applications, programmable logic gate, digital gates

74HC Series 6 V 8-Bit Shift Register with Output Register - SOIC-16

[uvaldecomputerrepairsstuff]

Troubleshooting BIOS Issues: When to Repair, Reflash, or Replace

Understanding BIOS Chips and When You Might Need a Replacement When it comes to troubleshooting computer issues, one of the components most people overlook is the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) chip. This small, unassuming chip is vital for your computer’s operation, storing the essential firmware needed to start up your machine and manage the communication between your operating system and…

[axsdr2link]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--discretes--diodes--zener/bzx384c15-e3-08-vishay-7088092

Power Zener diode, Zener diode chip, diode application, voltage regulator

BZX384C15-E3-08 ZENER DIODE SOD323-E3

[ctiprr2tice]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--discretes--diodes--zener/bzx84c5v1-7-f-diodes-incorporated-4141422

High voltage Zener diode, low voltage Zener diode, Zener diode chip

BZX84C5V1 Series 350 mW 5.1 V 10 mA Surface Mount Zener Diode - SOT-23

[vamprisms]

why is shopping for computer shit so difficult like what the hell is 40 cunt thread chip 3000 processor with 32 florps of borps and a z12 yummy biscuits graphics drive 400102XXDRZ like ok um will it run my programmes

[bonediggercharleston]

I am very wary of people going "China does it better than America" because most of it is just reactionary rejection of your overlord in favor of his rival, but this story is 1. absolutely legit and 2. way too funny.

US wants to build an AI advantage over China, uses their part in the chip supply chain to cut off China from the high-end chip market.

China's chip manufacturing is famously a decade behind, so they can't advance, right?

They did see it as a problem, but what they then did is get a bunch of Computer Scientists and Junior Programmers fresh out of college and funded their research in DeepSeek. Instead of trying to improve output by buying thousands of Nvidia graphics cards, they tried to build a different kind of model, that allowed them to do what OpenAI does at a tenth of the cost.

Them being young and at a Hedgefund AI research branch and not at established Chinese techgiants seems to be important because chinese corporate culture is apparently full of internal sabotage, so newbies fresh from college being told they have to solve the hardest problems in computing was way more efficient than what usually is done. The result:

American AIs are shook. Nvidia, the only company who actually is making profit cause they are supplying hardware, took a hit. This is just the market being stupid, Nvidia also sells to China. And the worst part for OpenAI. DeepSeek is Open Source.

Anybody can implement deepseek's model, provided they have the hardware. They are totally independent from DeepSeek, as you can run it from your own network. I think you will soon have many more AI companies sprouting out of the ground using this as its base.

What does this mean? AI still costs too much energy to be worth using. The head of the project says so much himself: "there is no commercial use, this is research."

What this does mean is that OpenAI's position is severely challenged: there will soon be a lot more competitors using the DeepSeek model, more people can improve the code, OpenAI will have to ask for much lower prices if it eventually does want to make a profit because a 10 times more efficient opensource rival of equal capability is there.

And with OpenAI or anybody else having lost the ability to get the monopoly on the "market" (if you didn't know, no AI company has ever made a single cent in profit, they all are begging for investment), they probably won't be so attractive for investors anymore. There is a cheaper and equally good alternative now.

AI is still bad for the environment. Dumb companies will still want to push AI on everything. Lazy hacks trying to push AI art and writing to replace real artists will still be around and AI slop will not go away. But one of the main drivers of the AI boom is going to be severely compromised because there is a competitor who isn't in it for immediate commercialization. Instead you will have a more decentralized open source AI field.

Or in short:

[jstin2iells]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/passives--resistors--fixed-resistors/wsl25127l000fea18-vishay-5010564

What is a fixed resistor, programmable resistors, High power resistor

WSL Series 2512 1 W 0.007 Ohm ±1% ±75 ppm/°C SMT Power Metal Strip® Resistor

[cadd2liva]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/passives--resistors--fixed-resistors/wsl25127l000fea-vishay-9135757

Chip resistors, what is a resistor, trimmer resistors, high power resistor

WSL Series 2512 1 W 0.007 Ohm ±1% ±75 ppm/°C SMT Power Metal Strip® Resistor

[jsms2itht]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--memory--flash--norflash--nor/mx29f040cqi-70gtr-macronix-4058675

Flash memory storage, NOR Flash Memory, SPI flash programmer, flash memory speed

MX29F Series 5 V 4 Mb (512k x 8) 70 ns Surface Mount Flash Memory - PLCC-32

[clytn2ewws]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/p/semiconductors--memory--flash--norflash--serial/s25fl256sagnfi001-infineon-7056191

USB flash memory storage, spi flash programmer software, memory chip

FL-S Series 256 Mb (32 M x 8) 3.6V 133MHz Non-Volatile SPI Flash Memory - WSON-8