This is insane. We should be thankful there are smart people in the world who can devise this complexity. So for the rest of us something apparently as simple as a ram stick just works. Also why I have always been in minor awe at electrical engineers.
Value every bit of RAM you have, as it was won in an uneven battle against entropy, and laws of nature.
I think I wrote before that in my teenage years, I thought of studying for a process engineer. After living in Singapore, and meeting 2 retired TSMC senior engineers there, I decided against that.
I had kind of a mentee-mentor relationship with them. Their told me of horrors of "studying for a PhD for a coffee porter job," and me having to be ready to endure that for many years to have a remotest chance to get into semi RnD.
The industry was just too competitive, and market dynamics are keeping to get more and more adverse against newcomers with each passing year.
Each new generation of FABs is getting more and more automated, which means more and more experienced process specialists are being thrown on the job market with each new fab closure, and each of them wanting to go from FAB to RnD.
They themselves said their decision to quit was thanks to that, and it happened many years prior to them migrating to Singapore, and that it would've been even worse at the time they were mentoring me.
I too started higher education with hopes of semiconductor RnD. I found my way into a test and measurement lab and learned the stuff necessary for such a gig, but found myself content with the work instead of hoping for some high risk halo job. I’m still young but I’m doing relatively low pay work for a university gig in a new field that interests me, rather than in a higher paying/more stimulating industry job.
