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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Today’s new cars come stuffed with some 1,000 to 3,000 semiconductor chips that help to control and coordinate everything from lowering windows and adjusting mirrors to deploying airbags, enabling collision avoidance systems, pairing phones with center consoles and displays, and coordinating navigation.

    Seriously? Am I the only one thinking this could be done with less than 10 chips at most? For what the cost of the car is, you can easily run a normal off the shelf mobo with 8BG memory. Add in a few extra chips for analog control, etc, where does that number 1000-3000 come from? That is insane