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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

In case it helps to illustrate the point, those aren't the most complicated things; those are areas in which a few very complicated, difficult problems exist. For example, semiconductors is a very massive field.

Designing the next utilitarian op amp is not something everyone can do but it's not that difficult of a problem, necessarily.

Designing the next cutting edge CPU (for Intel or AMD or Apple or whatever) on the other hand is (I imagine) a handful of very difficult problems (most of which I have only the vaguest idea of) like optimizing pipeline and predictive execution or how to get to the next level chip design & fabrication process (which itself has a bunch of different issues, from what I gather).

That's where I would expect the 10x or whatever to work. At the cutting edge of engineering and science where the hardest problems are.

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