Michael Filler
@MichaelFiller
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Technical entertainer; process inventor; living in the Valley of Death; making zillions of tiny switches; #ChBE professor @GeorgiaTech; @Spec__Tech; Ops my own.
Atlanta, GA
Joined July 2012
Thinking we need a Moore's Law for fabs, where every 18 months the number of fabs in the world doubles.
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RT @JessePeltan: And how shall we measure energy?. Barrels of oil equivalent, of course!.Unless it’s for a car, in which case we shall use….
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RT @bubblebabyboi: Self driving car? .> PID loop. Rocket that lands itself? .> PID loop. Hypersonic ICBM?.> PID loop. Your thermostat? .> P….
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RT @magicsilicon: Jensen articulates very well a key difference between CPUs and GPUs. Note that NVDA has historically not been the lead ad….
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So … by the transitive property … chemical engineers explain the entire 20th century?.
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“That’s one of the most tantalizing things about Vertical Integrators: there is a clear path to tremendously large outcomes. Not easy, but clear.”.
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“[Vertical integrators] take on engineering and system risk, but not scientific or technical risk.” True. But many unforeseen roadblocks on the path to scale likely have a scientific or technical risk flavor.
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“[Vertical integrators] don’t face existential risk from a single new technology. Their value is in the system, not in any one of the pieces. A competitor with a better technology would have to build a vertically integrated system around that technology”
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RT @spencerc99: updated the computing-infused fortune cookies to give the fortune some more personality. (also experimenting with a way for….
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It’s nutty that late model transistors each cost ~$0.000000001 but a single custom circuit with ~10-100k transistors costs at least ~$3500 and you have to wait 6-9 months.
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We can fabricate this circuit in a single desktop-sized tool in less than a minute 👀
oomf shared this to me and it's pretty wild. Let me introduce you Yokogawa minimal Fab, when everyone is going larger wafers & higher throughput, they make 0.5 in wafer tools all in one form factor, with almost all front-end capabilities, that does NOT need to be in a clean room.
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“I see a much larger problem at work: Journalists and news executives — and I include myself in this critique — were never equipped with the tools of theory and history to inform self-reflection on our field and to imagine alternative means and models of serving our public.”.
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Can we discuss the extreme energy intensity of the process itself?
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Hell’s front porch is PG-13. The pollening is rated R.
It may be false fall, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it 💛
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RT @packyM: Vertical Integrators are companies that:. 1. Integrate multiple cutting-edge-but-proven technologies. 2. Develop significant in….
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Mathematicians might want to lawyer up
You may not know that the derivatives of the position vector (x) with respect to time have interesting names:. Velocity (v) = dx/dt.Acceleration (a) = d²x/dt².Jerk (j) = d³x/dt³.Snap (s) = d⁴x/dt⁴ .Crackle (c) = d⁵x/dt⁵.Pop (p) = d⁶x/dt⁶
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“a network connection requires radio communication, through Bluetooth, WiFi, or cellular data. All of these technologies need at least 100 milliwatts of power to run continuously. This isn’t much when you are connected to a mains power supply, but you’ll quickly run down anything.
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“Canva for microsystems” 🤔.
She was rejected by 100+ investors. An outcast among founders. But today, her business is worth $26 billion and has 200 Million monthly users. Here’s her story:
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AI people are the nth people.
The OG Scaling Laws from 1965.Gordon Moore.AI people are not the first people to think in terms of log, log plots, they are the second.
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We separate almost everything, from fruit to microchips. ~15% of worldwide energy is spent on separation processes. 15%!!
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