Fabless manufacturing by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
In the past, most computer designers would have their own fabs.
But once designs started getting very complicated, it started to make sense to separate concerns between designers and fabs.
What this means is that design companies would primarily write register transfer level, then use electronic design automation tools to get a final manufacturable chip, and then send that to the fab.
It is in this point of time that TSMC came along, and benefied and helped establish this trend.
The term "Fabless" could in theory refer to other areas of industry besides the semiconductor industry, but it is mostly used in that context.
Dilution refrigerator by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
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This Is What A Helium Dilution refrigerator Is by Dietterich Labs (2019)
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Half-life by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
The half-life of radioactive decay, which as discovered a few years before quantum mechanics was discovered and matured, was a major mystery. Why do some nuclei fission in apparently random fashion, while others don't? How is the state of different nuclei different from one another? This is mentioned in Inward Bound by Abraham Pais (1988) Chapter 6.e Why a half-life?
The term also sees use in other areas, notably biology, where e.g. RNAs spontaneously decay as part of the cell's control system, see e.g. mentions in E. Coli Whole Cell Model by Covert Lab.
Classical computer by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
In the context of quantum computing of the 2020's, a "classical computer" is a computer that is not "quantum", i.e., the then dominating CMOS computers.
LibreOffice by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
These people are heroes. There's nothing else to say.

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