My wife was talking about OHP which she used when teaching while explaining something today. I was a bit confused as we didn’t have anything called OHP when I was in school. After a bit of explaining we realised she had only ever known it as OHP. She has never stopped to think about what it was an acronym for. Turns out she was talking about the overhead projector which we had plenty of in school. Reminded me of the five monkeys experiment https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-...
For those who don't know, the five monkeys experiment was completely made up by someone trying to sell books about business and has never been replicated.
CMOS is widely known. And in the context of Image Sensor, as long as you write CMOS everyone should understand. But CIS isn't, not to mention it keep repeating itself like this sentence below
"In the face of Samsung's close pursuit, Sony decided to expand its partnership with TSMC, hoping to win 60% of the global Market Share of CIS Image Sensors by 2025."
What exactly is CIS Image Sensors? CMOS Image Sensor Image Sensor?
Just call it CMOS Image Sensor. Not everything has to be an acronyms.
It's what you use to take a picture of the LCD display in an ATM Machine. An ATM machine runs on AC current and you need to enter your PIN number, which it will verify over its LAN network connection.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, when was the last time you saw someone spell out central processing unit? Random access memory? Hard disk drive?
Given the context, its not always required to reiterate acronyms.
A good way of dealing with this kind of thing in the future would be to include some clarifying words in the post title to HN. Like "TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony CMOS image sensors".
HN gathers all kinds of people from the technology world. We can't all be expected to know all of of the acronyms from all of the various sectors.
The parent comment received 15 upvotes in a few hours, so I'm guessing most people on here don't know what "CIS" means in this context.
As always, tailor your message to the likely reader.
It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms. — Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
Thanks. I hate it so much when people do not explain the acronyms they use, at least once.
It is like a map without a legend. It is so confusing.
And I am an expert on electronics, I can guess it, most people will read that as nonsense.
My wife was talking about OHP which she used when teaching while explaining something today. I was a bit confused as we didn’t have anything called OHP when I was in school. After a bit of explaining we realised she had only ever known it as OHP. She has never stopped to think about what it was an acronym for. Turns out she was talking about the overhead projector which we had plenty of in school. Reminded me of the five monkeys experiment https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-...
For those who don't know, the five monkeys experiment was completely made up by someone trying to sell books about business and has never been replicated.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-ex...
We live in a "5 monkeys" world.
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That is the part I dont understand.
CMOS is widely known. And in the context of Image Sensor, as long as you write CMOS everyone should understand. But CIS isn't, not to mention it keep repeating itself like this sentence below
"In the face of Samsung's close pursuit, Sony decided to expand its partnership with TSMC, hoping to win 60% of the global Market Share of CIS Image Sensors by 2025."
What exactly is CIS Image Sensors? CMOS Image Sensor Image Sensor?
Just call it CMOS Image Sensor. Not everything has to be an acronyms.
> What exactly is CIS Image Sensors?
It's what you use to take a picture of the LCD display in an ATM Machine. An ATM machine runs on AC current and you need to enter your PIN number, which it will verify over its LAN network connection.
This article is not intended for most people.
Yes, I wouldn't think you'd need to expand "CMOS Image Sensor" on a site named "Image Sensor World".
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I don't know why you're being downvoted, when was the last time you saw someone spell out central processing unit? Random access memory? Hard disk drive?
Given the context, its not always required to reiterate acronyms.
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A good way of dealing with this kind of thing in the future would be to include some clarifying words in the post title to HN. Like "TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony CMOS image sensors".
HN gathers all kinds of people from the technology world. We can't all be expected to know all of of the acronyms from all of the various sectors.
The parent comment received 15 upvotes in a few hours, so I'm guessing most people on here don't know what "CIS" means in this context.
As always, tailor your message to the likely reader.
> The parent comment received 15 upvotes in a few hours, so I'm guessing most people on here don't know what "CIS" means in this context.
People are more likely to have opinions on writing style than imaging chip economics and manufacturing.
By posting on HN to complain about writing style, that comment took the discussion off topic and provided plenty of room for people to bikeshed.
This wasn't about writing style though - it was about making the piece understandable to at least 95% of readers instead of maybe 1%.
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and then there's gnu hurd...
It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms. — Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
AFAIK, the usage of CIS became common when CMOS based sensors started replacing CCD (charge coupled device) sensors in scanners (and cameras?).