Fallout When the Chips Are Down

May 18, 2024 · 24m 20s
Fallout When the Chips Are Down
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What if we lived in a world without semiconductor chips? Tony Moor, senior director of silicon lab services with IOActive, and Shane Snider, senior writer with InformationWeek, join in for...

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What if we lived in a world without semiconductor chips?
Tony Moor, senior director of silicon lab services with IOActive, and Shane Snider, senior writer with InformationWeek, join in for a conversation on our reliance on semiconductor chips.
In the alternate retrofuture of the popular "Fallout" streaming series and video game franchise, semiconductors never caught on as a backbone for computer technology. Instead of silicon chips, vacuum tubes became the mainstay of technology, which had a variety of repercussions after the world of "Fallout" went thermonuclear.
In the real world, just a couple of years ago a shortage in semiconductor chips had companies and manufacturers scrambling for ways to compensate. Even now, demand conitnues for semiconductor-based chips from smartphones to supporting the latest strides in AI.
This episode of DOS Won't Hunt takes a look at what was learned from dealing with past shortages in chips as current demand continues, and how that might change is technology needs evolve.
Are there any alternatives to current chip tech that might be put to work for compute? Could industry get by through recycling chips to meet future demand? Will innovation stall if there are not enough chips to go around?
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