In 1997 I shifted gears, National Semiconductor had purchased Cyrix, so I started working on microprocessors, MediaGX system on a chip, some M2 (back in the days of bleeding edge processors hitting 200mHz - 400mHz). Talk about an all consuming workload. The MediaGX family was all mine, compiled test solution + patterns were over 2G in size. Huge die. The 12hr days got old after a few years, AMD and Intel eventually left us in the dust. NatSemi eventually sold the cyrix IP to some Chinese company ... then I was thrust into supporting SST Flash Memory. That was very interesting for a short while, I'd never supported Flash devices before. Learned a lot. But overall, automation was the best part of my career, you could make real, visible and permanent improvements to quality and throughput ... I saved the company many many millions. Far more satisfying than laboring over device test characterization and mfg test solutions in an endless line of new, increasingly complex products, always ultra urgent and usually well behind schedule on the project plan by the time I had what I needed. That became a thankless sweatshop job in the end, not for me anymore, so I quit. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaGX