Dont think about your age if someone is looking for experience they will contact you. Yes the market is slow right now but you are not a junior.
I just went through the same process 6 months ago.
What gave good results for me was cutting down my resume to 1 page and highlight the important parts of my career.
Think of it like a one-pager for a startup pitch, but you are the company.
This is not a new problem, as they have been starved of high-end semiconductors for years already. However, catching up to the knowledge that ASML and Zeiss have regarding lithography machines is not an easy task to overcome.
Because they don't decide this on their own. A smart CEO gets board approval before going on a hiring spree, so afterwards, if the CFO shows a negative forecast, everyone can go, 'Oh, who could have seen this?'
CEOs get fired if the board loses trust in their abilities.
Depending on the vendor you might end up with drives that run custom firmware, which cannot be crossflashed, that might not even work at all in a non-OEM system, that might not be compatible with normal block storage use, that might not support stuff like power management etc. (and allegedly might have reset SMART logs)
You can easily buy the correct price of hardware by searching the forums and following the advice. The Freenas/Truenas forum is full of hardware guides and threads on what 10gb NICs or controllers to buy and when you need it flashed into IT Mode.
Most of the resellers will answers questions or even flash firmware. Local Craigslist guys even offered to do it but they don’t know why you’re doing it, the eBay people understand.
If you have access to it in your area, consider looking into KNX for home automation and DALI for lighting. Both are BUS systems that you wire throughout your house, and they are very reliable. They are commonly used in hotels, schools, etc. It might be a bit more expensive and require pre-planning, but these systems have been around for decades in Europe. Plus, you'll be adhering to a standard, not bound to a specific company
You don't re-fit a fab, you build it from scratch. There is very little technological overlap where it matters due to the shift to EUV. You'd essentially have to scrap >75% of the fab to fit in the new equipment.
Not only that, but the fab undergoing the 2 - 5 year refit would also not be in full production capability.
So there is the revenue loss in addition to everything else.
and suddenly just building new makes even more sense.
There is a YouTube channel called asianometry which did some videos about UV lithography. Form what I remember the processes vary significantly in each generation so that there probably is little to no real overlap.
I'm no expert though so might be off by a mile here.
I used sway for a bit back in 2019 on a dated laptop with Nvidia card, I was actually impressed how performant it was compared to Gnome. I remember tiling browser windows + complex apps, some terminals and DotA2 while waiting for matchmaking so IMO I was throwing a lot at it, but things kept working and running smoothly, it would react instantly to any tiling hotkeys, fullscreen toggle, no matter how much I was messing with it. On Windows programs would become unresponsive after 1/10 of such treatment.
There was one dealbreaker though; random rare crashes which would reset my workspace that I couldn't narrow down to anything. This + not being in the mood to write my own DE from scratch (configs) made me ditch it. But it is tempting to go back to it once in a while given how much time had passed - if it was available for Mac, I would very very likely reconsider, otherwise it just adds more fragmentation between Mac/Linux.
Sway supports anything the kernel supports. The kernel supports any video card that implements their APIs. Nvidia doesn’t do the latter, so blame them.
Fragmentation at first and you hinder the first mover in this case OpenAI in sizing the market completely and later on you can acquire the necessary pieces to get back into the market or buy time to close the gap.
Current Microsoft strategy seems so push into this direction. Open Source certain technologies and acquire important pieces e.g. Github / Stake in OpenAI etc. to build a bigger picture that they can monetize later.
