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joe_bleau on Sept 21, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a WWII Jet Fighter Was Designed in 150 days & ...

I doubt you'd call a tool and die man a "lathe monkey" if you had much experience in the chip making world.

redrobot5050 on Sept 24, 2010 [–]

are we talking about integrated circuit chips? Because everyone in the EE/SOC world mocks the VLSI monkeys. Its a $120/hour CAD jockey job. It's an entirely different skillset and mindset to adapt an ISA to hardware than is to make sure there's no overlap.

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