Last year I had a procedure to correct a cornea issue. From my optician doing a referral to getting the procedure took NHS Scotland just a little over 3 years. Devolution really isn't working for the… (View Post)

Agreed, their silicon design work is very good and the M series SoCs gave the industry a much overdue kick in the backside. My problem is the systems they use the M chips in. Laptops that sacrifice e… (View Post)

Yep, not weird at all. Apple are a bunch of shits and always have been, going right back to the Jobs/Woz days. I've been using computers and associated tech since 1982 and I'm damn proud to have neve… (View Post)

Edinburgh's bus system is what you get when the people in charge understand that adding connections to a transport network increases the value and usefulness of the network as a whole even if, as you… (View Post)

Probably quite a bit more, I'd imagine. Those 'dishwasher chips', for example, may have wildly different requirements that require a variety of fab processes to meet. A microcontroller may need a mix… (View Post)