Exactly. More of this and less Q&A slideshow bullshit

Yep. Why do you think that every nuclear program ever runs years and years behind and insane amounts over budget?

I’d agree it’s a very good article. I work in the industry, but not this specific part of it, but what was presented seems accurate and easy to understand. It doesn’t go into the “why?” of how we ended up here, and my personal view is it was a combination of events that all added-up to this situation that the…

I starred you by the way, lol.  This is absolutely ass.  I can't believe the senior writers at the very least are not raising hell about this.  I already do not come here as much.  Jalopnik is 50% comments, most of the time the community knows more or has more interesting takes.  They are still there, but it…

Kinja keeps making comments (one of the things that keeps bringing us here,) harder and harder to use. One of these days it won’t be worth it, and I will have no reason to come back.

The plans for different diseases where a lot of countries were well prepared don’t really cause much of a different impact and the ones that were well prepped for Covid also got hit with similar issues. You just can’t strip out margins and then have something massively changing the operating variables and expect…

If my memory serves, near the beginning of the pandemic, several car manufacturers cancelled major chip orders due to the shutdowns. The chip manufacturer then committed to orders from other industries. Then car sales picked up, and even exceeded previous levels, so the car manufacturers tried to place orders, only to…

...if your product lifecycle is already that behind the chip manufacturers, and that reliant, it seems bananas to not carry excess.

Oh no. None of us will live that long.

Look to see this resolved about the time K inja gets functional

It may work logically but there could be electrical differences that have to be tested out and validated. The space shuttle went through this - it used 8086 processors in critical areas. Once those were no longer manufactured, nasa scavenged them on ebay and other places. The cost of redesigning and revalidating new…

There are three technical reasons, at least. One is that packaging methods can change with die size. A second, related issue is that chip temperatures can run hotter (or sometimes cooler) when moving/shrinking circuit traces and components. And a third is that parts of the circuit can interfere with other parts once…

I totally agree. One major part of industrial engineering is obsolescence planning, and there are companies that are...not very good...about this. It’s a major issue, not very sexy, but very much a strategic risk. It’s not a good feeling to learn that one of your suppliers is no longer making parts for that…

That’s very much the accepted pattern in the software world. With hardware, it’s possible the new chips would still need extensive safety/reliability testing and validation before being considered equivalent to the old ones.

I’m not in the automotive industry so this is somewhat speculation, but another reason not to miniaturize is simple robustness.

This is all due to poor supply chain planning and a religious devotion to just in time manufacturing to appease Wall Street because excess inventory looks bad on a balance sheet.  So many industries are suffering because everyone thought it was 2008 again and it isn’t.  The bonkers thing is that older IC’s aren’t that…

So, as someone with experience in this, when would you actually start looking to move to newer tech?

the root cause of the issue though was that the car companies were too quick to cancel large orders of chips at the start of the pandemic for fear of looking bad to wall street by carrying too much inventory. when they did that, the companies who had been nursing along the old fabs to build those chips said “finally!”…

This is good stuff.

Yes and no. The high voltage battery needs to be completely isolated from the car when the car is off for safety reasons. So you need “something” to power the relay that makes that connection when you turn the car on. And the simplest and cheapest something is a good old-fashioned 12V system as used in billions of…