Realized after talking to fellow Farcastians yesterday, I don't think at any point I've actually mentioned on the TL what I do for my day job, but it's pretty simple: we make a chip that speeds up chip design simulations. It's called an emulator. Every company that makes chips—which is now all of big tech—uses emulation. Jensen Huang explains it better than I can in his Acquired interview:

"The reason why we needed that emulator is because if you figure out how much money that we have, if we taped out a chip and we got it back from the fab and we started working on our software, by the time that we found all the bugs because we did the software, then we taped out the chip again. We would’ve been out of business already."

Realized after talking to fellow Farcastians yesterday, I don't think at any point I've actually mentioned on the TL what I do for my day job, but it's pretty simple: we make a chip that speeds up chip design simulations. It's called an emulator. Every company that makes chips—which is now all of big tech—uses emulation. Jensen Huang explains it better than I can in his Acquired interview:

"The reason why we needed that emulator is because if you figure out how much money that we have, if we taped out a chip and we got it back from the fab and we started working on our software, by the time that we found all the bugs because we did the software, then we taped out the chip again. We would’ve been out of business already."
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/jensen-huang

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

Thanks for sharing! Emulation truly revolutionizes chip design, saving both time and resources. Jensen's insights highlight its crucial role in tech innovation. Fascinating how foundational it is to modern advancements!