I guess we have all seen all those wonderful toys coming from China. Technologies unimaginable a few years ago, like quadricopters and microminiature concealed cameras. It looks like the US Military is taking notice.
Other countries (such as China) build our stuff, understand how it works, and have found out how to make it very inexpensively. A remote-controlled drone was once the exclusive domain of law enforcement... now just about anyone who wants one can buy one.
Yup, it looks like the-powers-that-be are realizing their cats are getting out of the bag...
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:17PM
... with few if any errata.
That particular chip had oodles of errata, as well as revisions. I expect the client never even checked.
Really the ethical thing for me to have done would be to have suggested that maybe they should consider another part, right at the outset. The reason I agreed to take their work was that I needed the money. I expect that kind of problem is common.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:27PM
One way around this is sometimes to get a later chip revision. The quite six-eight-000 family of processors had quirks in early revisions (80386 too..).
Most important.. did you promise anything about the firmware quality or delivery time? ;-)