MEMS are also made of silicon. quartz oscillators were basically the first MEMS. (i wrote that but actually its not true lol. something else cool is saw filters which kind of build on the concept of quartz oscillators btw) cool fact: the reason helium kills MEMS is because the atoms are so small that they can diffuse their way through the wall of the device, filling it up with helium and the air resistance then stops it from working!

here’s some background information and speculation, as someone not involved in the industy. the silicon wafers used for making chips are big single crystals, which are made by the Czochralski method the crucible is also made of silica and needs to be very perfect, so that no crystals are seeded from the walls, so it makes sense to me that the crucible needs to be at least the purity of the desired silicon wafers - which is at least 99.9999% pure and for research-grade samples 99.99999999% pure. I suspect that the leading-edge nodes requires the high-end of this scale. Its economical to start with the highest purity material that you can, which according to Conway’s Material World comes from spruce pine, but its possible to use a lower grade starting material.

it seems like every time i search for anything it comes up with a million ai-generated wordpress pages with the same basic structure. obviously being churned out as someone’s “passive income” scheme. I wonder if there is a search engine with a way to filter out all wordpress sites…

taken out by the same “hard drive failure” as leftypol. “We are still hoping to get access to the backups once the old admin sees that we need him to give us access.”

yes

i get ~5-10x speedup with nvenc for h264, can’t speak to the quality of the amd or av1 stuff. the quality of motion etc is worse at low bit rates but i think above a few mbps at 1080p its not that much of a difference.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro would seem to indicate that the AMF encoder provides amd gpu support. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/938 https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins#add-new-transcoding-profiles