The Cost Of Doing Business
- Chris is on hotel Wifi, so really he's talking to Dave on an app via his phone and then recording locally.
- Is there an uncanny valley in hardware?
- Altium bought Octopart and Ciiva.
- Dave predicted that they would in a blog post a few months back when Altium raised more money.
- Another potential acquisition would be Polar Instruments, makers of SI tools.
- Gowin is a company out of China manufacturing FPGAs. They are partnering with Synopsis (makers of Synplify Pro).
- Chris is intimidated by tcl scripts.
- Synplify Pro was also used as part of the Actel / Microsemi tool chain.
- Chris thinks this is similar to the ESP8266 as it opens up the marketplace for more
- How much use will there be for FPGAs past eduction for most users? Jack Gassett was on Embedded.fm talking about eduction.
- The PSOC family is interesting and has some reconfigurable logic.
- Adafruit hit $33 million and did so by bootstrapping.
- Tim Ferriss had the founder of Evernote on his show who was talking about the Dunbar number (NOT Godwin's Law)
- Silicon valley perks have started to make their way into non SV companies.
- Timesheets are evil, especially when you're socially pressured to up your hours per week.
- Dave's past company was doing production in china and spent $10K on internet access over a phone. The cost of doing business.
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