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Lithography Update
It was recently SPIE Advanced Litho time again, and… well, the belle of the ball appears to be changing. For several years, now, it’s been…
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EFINIX – Yet Another FPGA Company
We’ve been around the FPGA startup merry-go-round numerous times over the past few decades. It generally does not end well. The usual script goes something…
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Microsoft Buys Express Logic RTOS Company
“The future lies in designing… computers that users don’t realize are computers at all.” – Adam Osborne The big fish eat the small fish. That’s…
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Automatic Security Policy Implementation
They say that security can’t be designed as an afterthought. That security must be thought through as an early aspect of planning and architecture design.…
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Self-Driving Cars: What the Engineers Think
“Your car goes where your eyes go.” – Garth Stein A brand-new survey of autonomous-vehicle designers tells an interesting story about their progress, their…
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Intel Acquires Omnitek
Following on the recent announcement of the new Agilex FPGA family, Intel announced they are acquiring Omnitek – a developer of video and vision acceleration…
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A Self-Sufficient Serial Flash Memory
For IoT devices, it matters that the system be able to power itself down when not doing anything. So it matters that critical data remain…
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Disruption in the 1920s
“When I’m assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie.” – Walter Murch Hardly a week goes by that some “disruptive” new technology…
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FlexLogix Accelerates Edge Inference
Let’s start with one hard fact. There are a lot of companies developing new AI inference processors right now, and most of them won’t survive.…
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More Efficient Time-Sensitive Ethernet
Ah, Ethernet… our good, reliable, trusty friend from way back. So trusty, in fact, that our cars may soon be running a version of Ethernet…