<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@poleguy" class="u-url mention">@<span>poleguy</span></a></span> I wonder if the fab was sold for national security reasons more than anything?</p><p>there is a Chinese clone of the ASIC that we&#39;ll evaluate</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I suppose it&#39;s all relative. If the press release said that no &quot;customer agreements&quot; were disrupted, I&#39;d guess that means that they didn&#39;t have any &quot;customers.&quot; I mean: no signed agreements with customers to supply guaranteed volume. I doubt they consider digikey and mouser as &#39;customers&#39;. </p><p>And it means the remaining volume*profit margin wasn&#39;t high enough to stop the sale of the fab.</p><p>Has nobody designed a drop in? Are there counterfeits?</p><p>I consider this situation &quot;low volume.&quot;</p>

<p>First trailer live for Skull Horde where you command an army of dead soldiers as a floating skull <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/first-trailer-live-for-skull-horde-where-you-command-an-army-of-dead-soldiers-as-a-floating-skull/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/firs</span><span class="invisible">t-trailer-live-for-skull-horde-where-you-command-an-army-of-dead-soldiers-as-a-floating-skull/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SkullHorde" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SkullHorde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@caleb" class="u-url mention">@<span>caleb</span></a></span> Yes, doesn&#39;t everyone learn to read over the entire exam first before starting in school? Oh, wait....</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>OK, that was the geekiest macabre joke!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@poleguy" class="u-url mention">@<span>poleguy</span></a></span> I think the FX2 is a high volume part, it&#39;s used in so many devices</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> ugh. I always worry about this class of parts that are relatively unique, relatively expensive, and relatively low volume. Many in this class won&#39;t be used in high volume designs because they can be replaced by a small cheap fpga or subsumed into a larger asic. Without a big market player to keep the volume up, I think they are all at risk of (doomed to?) disappearing with short notice. It&#39;s hard to design without them up front, but risky to design with them.</p>

<p>Hilarious physics-based 2D multiplayer brawler Oblin Party is out now <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/hilarious-physics-based-2d-multiplayer-brawler-oblin-party-is-out-now/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/hila</span><span class="invisible">rious-physics-based-2d-multiplayer-brawler-oblin-party-is-out-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OblinParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OblinParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Godot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neuronakaya" class="u-url mention">@<span>neuronakaya</span></a></span> I know this doesn&#39;t change all the things he did, but I just saw the</p>