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[VirtualLarry]

they're in the disney vault, along with song of the south.

 

[Idontcare]

Oh, I understand and completely agree with the point you are making, but I think I might have expressed mine clearly enough. What I was getting at was more along the lines of altering the ES policy from "preview, return, destroy" to "preview, return, auction on website 7 years later". It's just personal opinion (and like I said, I'm a biochemist, not a EE or even finance guy) but it seems like the relative value added from destroying the chips is always 0 (which the support for is that this is a guaranteed non-negative value) versus the potential free PR that could come from auctioning off even a portion of those ES chips (say maybe 100 are set aside from the "destroy" pile). I'm sure they have a broom closet somewhere that they could set these chips away on.

Oh yeah, that's a definite good point. Allowing someone else to go to the trouble, if they are so inclined, is a viable path. For now I guess we'll just have to assume Intel has stored the chips in a government warehouse next to the Ark of the Covenant

 

[nismotigerwvu]

Crap, just realized i had a typo on that last post. I meant to say "I don't think I expressed my point clearly enough" but it seems like you picked up on that. So without breaking any NDAs or anything of the like, did you see any "curiosities" at TI while you were that you think are worth mentioning?

 

[Idontcare]

Crap, just realized i had a typo on that last post. I meant to say "I don't think I expressed my point clearly enough" but it seems like you picked up on that. So without breaking any NDAs or anything of the like, did you see any "curiosities" at TI while you were that you think are worth mentioning?

Plenty, but I hold my tongue not because of NDA's (which have all pretty much expired for me), rather because I want to not burn my bridges, bridges that need to remain in place for purposes of my future employment prospects

NDA's define the bare minimum of required confidentiality when managing delicate info, but gaining trust and confidence requires far more effort and people have ridiculously long memories for that kind of stuff...

That will probably come across as sounding like I hold great secrets to the universe or something, I assure you I do not.

But what little I do know is (a) not provable and I'd really rather not have internet trolls trolling the hell out of me over it, and (b) irrelevant to today's world outside of the geeky-cool factor and allure, so at best it would just muddle an already cloudy understanding of why things are the way they are.

I will tell you the coolest thing that happened to me personally was that I got to meet, and talk shop with, Jack Kilby on-site at TI one time. It was one of those rare moments in my life where I was truly star-struck and all wobbly in the knees when I shook his hand :wub:

 

[nismotigerwvu]

Woah, nice. I knew Kilby was a nobel laureate, the grandfather of the IC but I didn't realize he invented the handheld calculator as well. I know it seems silly to think about it now, but that really did make a huge impact. The fact that it's among his smallest accomplishments more than justifies being starstruck.

 

[IntelUser2000]

I will tell you the coolest thing that happened to me personally was that I got to meet, and talk shop with, Jack Kilby on-site at TI one time. It was one of those rare moments in my life where I was truly star-struck and all wobbly in the knees when I shook his hand :wub:

That's the advantages of working in the semiconductor industry I guess. Real life version of this commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8GVi2Fdi4

 

[Idontcare]

That's the advantages of working in the semiconductor industry I guess. Real life version of thsi commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8GVi2Fdi4

LOL, so true

 

[alyarb]

I'm sure the guys in Austin feel just like that every day.

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