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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The tech is apparently so outdated that it's next to worthless. What's the $5m for? Funeral arrangements?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Office equipment. Maybe some nice PCs and servers.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Doubt that. It's probably the value of the land and building.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe I can score a herman miller chair

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might as well sell it on storage wars.

Open the office door, let people take a peak, then they essentially gamble as to whether there’s anything of value and bid on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might can use their equipment for manufacturing legacy products.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is: They don't actually produce anything. They are fabless.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No, baby. You're fabulous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They design the chips and the software needed to work with it. They write the code in a HDL (Hardware Definition Language) and test them in simulation runs, and when everything works, they synthesize the chips' masks from it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, ok. So like an architect makes the blueprint and then sends it off to the engineers to build.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago