Hello, I'm new here and thought I'd say hi and give you a little bio info about me.
Been watching LTT for awhile, and I'm a big fan of Taran Van Hemert's posts about Premier Pro editing (editor of LTT - more about that below).
My daddy was a radio engineer, and I used to be his electronics tech for soldering and such since my age was single digits and hobbyists still used vacuum tubes! I've been involved in computers and electronics for just about the entire history of personal computers, about forty years. My first computer was an S-100 CP/M Z-80 system with some wire-wrapped cards, 64KB of Static SRAM, a memory mapped character display video board, BIOS I wrote in assembly language, and 8" floppy disk drives (I know I lost some folks with this, LOL!).
I worked for about a third of my four decade career as a HW & FW design engineer in aerospace (without an EE degree, self-taught and apprentice trained), worked another third as a Field Applications Engineer in the EDA software tools and semiconductor industry, and then got an MBA and moved into the business side of the industry, technical marketing manager, supply chain commodity manager, supplier quality engineer, and now I'm an outside sales account manager at a huge industrial distributor of electronic components for the past almost six years. I tell customers that to change from engineering, to sales and marketing, I had to get the "sales and marketing lobotomy"! LOL! (always good for a laugh)
I am currently getting back into an early passion for photography, film, and audio recording (from the film and magnetic tape days), finally making the leap into digital post production. I bought a DSLR and I am teaching myself Adobe Premier Pro, After Effects, Photo Shop, etc. and just built a new high-end editing workstation, which is what brought me here to ask a couple questions. I was my high school's yearbook photographer, worked night shift in a commercial film lab in Hollywood Ca in my teens (while still in high school), and then after high school I went on to be a photographer/photojournalist in the US Army from 1972 to 1975. I don't have a real good answer for why I didn't make a career of photography, except I guess that my electronic skills seemed more employable forty years ago.
Anyway, I have factory contacts with most of the semiconductor chip makers, I understand computers pretty well down to the CPU architectures, registers, bits and bytes, because that's where I started. I don't claim to have kept up with all the latest technology though, I don't think anyone really can these days, but I am generally "familiar with" most of the up and coming new technology that hasn't made it to consumers yet. We get high-level trainings from the various manufacturers weekly. I sell just about everything inside your computer except the sheet metal, and printed circuit bare boards.
On that note, if you're in the market for memory, or SSDs, right now is a real good time to drop that dime. The entire industry is very worried right now that we're going to run into severe shortages this year, due to constrained supply and rapidly growing demand. Long story, the granularity of new semiconductor fab capacity is in the multi-billions of $, and no one in the memory market is adding capacity yet. Even when they start building new capacity, it takes years. Intel is building a new fab in Arizona on which they'll develop products in 10nm and 7nm technology, but that's not going to help memory supply. We're seriously telling our large industrial customers that 26 week lead times are coming soon! I filled my new ASUS mother board to its limit of 64GB DDR4 3300MHz today, while I could still be sure of getting it.
So that's quite a bit about me, happy to help others when I can, and appreciate the large active forum here for my own questions.
Cheers all!
Theresa
Already pulled the trigger on the system above. I suppose I have some loyalty to Intel, living in Oregon, with lots of friends that work there.
