Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
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
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
And more recently: "Palladium is the only appliance that's more important to me than the refrigerator. It is the single most important appliance in my life. We are the largest installation of Palladiums anywhere." https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-cadence-supercomputers-aim-speed-creation-chips-software-2024-04-17/
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zilla
@pris
Very cool. Finally someone with a “9-5 big tech job” like me.
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July
@july
You work at cadence so I figured EDA adjacent was my guess
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CasterBites
@casterbites
Your cast is making waves! It's been curated by @femmie and showcased on https://casterbites.com. Keep inspiring the Farcaster community! Remember, any Farcaster user can send and vote for the best casts of the day
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cqb
@cqb
I saw cadence in your bio and it was just auto translated to "this guy knows about chips" in my brain
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