>America, used to be engineering-led. Seeing “Made in USA” most often meant you were holding something that was engineered to work and to last. Exceptions to this were rare.
This is evident from the textbooks that I used to read or some of the old manuals especially explaining science and engineering when I was young. While in my graduation I desperately wanted to come to the US to work in some of the top engineering companies. Unfortunately I couldn't and I now see a steady decline in engineering work. All I see is silly sw engineering. Manufacturing has become non existent. Some of the vintage electronics stuff the engineers pulled before is very inspiring. This same thing applied to British engineering which is synonymous to poor quality these days.
I am looking for books which are for complete beginners but goes on to intermediate level, hobbyist and practical book where I can try out the concepts. Can you please recommend books for me?
I have seen so many people do this wherever I have worked. In fact there is another thing that they do i.e. when management pulls in the schedule they will meekly agree to it because they already know they are going to half-a$$ their code. Now they are heroes much before as they are "yes-men" and will be targeted for promotion. Swooping in to fix things just adds to their already loaded credentials.
The ones who are honest and actually disagree are banished and their lives are made difficult. They are called all sorts of names the most important being "not a team player".
Yes, provided it takes off like ARM does currently. On one hand the work being done on ARM right now is helping displace the x86-64 monoculture, on the other hand it might leave no niche for RISC-V to fill.
True, but this is something that could be relatively easy for Arm Ltd to address in an endless number of possible ways, considering their already-dominant position, the perceived seriousness of the threat, etc. Just like Microsoft basically gave up on making the average Joe pay directly for a Windows license.
Another question is, at what point do you expect RoI on your RISC-V expertise, even if it was basically guaranteed to take 20% of the global CPU market 10 years from now, you still need to ask yourself, what do you want to be doing until then.
I'm barely old enough to remember when VLIW was still being hyped, and while RISC-V so far has a much better outlook commercially, it would be wise to remember that this market is ruthlessly competitive. Even companies as old and dominant as Intel must remain vigilant, for the old friend next door may eat their lunch and their dog.
ARM helps RISC-V a huge amount. A lot of the software porting for RISC-V is much, much easier because of the effort ARM has already pulled in. The same goes for other things like ARM Platform.
RISC-V already has lots of niches and its a open standard. Ill be fine.
It is simple. If the Govt wants to support the semiconductor industry provide proper worker protections. It should know that the a few companies would have cartel like power and exploit their employees.
Its rare that nuanced problems have simple solutions. The problem is not that evil employers are oppressing helpless employees, at least not entirely. The problem is that making physical things requires physical infrastructure and investment at a massive scale. Things move slowly and barrier to entry is high. Conditions like that are going to cause a slower, less transferrable skill set just because few entities are willing to take the capital risk to develop that infrustructure so fewer entities exist.
Contrast that with software where you and I could go start a business now and potentially unseat a major player somewhere with enough talent and dedication.
Its obvious which one is going to have more mobile employees.
It's not worker protections that will help. They will just end up incentivising industry to move elsewhere. The problem is it's too hard to set up competitors. Competitors are what raise employees' standards of living, far higher than vote-winning legislation.
How do you generally find subreddits? I used love forums instead of subreddits. Subreddits seem to have very shallow conversations and does not have decent explanations.
This is evident from the textbooks that I used to read or some of the old manuals especially explaining science and engineering when I was young. While in my graduation I desperately wanted to come to the US to work in some of the top engineering companies. Unfortunately I couldn't and I now see a steady decline in engineering work. All I see is silly sw engineering. Manufacturing has become non existent. Some of the vintage electronics stuff the engineers pulled before is very inspiring. This same thing applied to British engineering which is synonymous to poor quality these days.