as far as I can tell, Louis Savain is a Software Engineer. If he were a hardware engineer, he might feel differently.
Just to put it briefly, chips have bugs too. They often don't perform to spec. They are often late. And they're a lot harder to rev than software. Just like at Intel.
Maybe we should all program in Verilog.
--Tony
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