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  • Negative Capacitance

    Negative Capacitance

    Get ready to geek out. I’m a big fan of math. I know… hardly a bold coming-out statement. But I’m also sometimes not a fan.…

  • Message to CEOs: Stand Up for Your Company!

    Message to CEOs: Stand Up for Your Company!

    If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader. – Sheri L. Dew Today, we’re going far afield from the electronics…

  • The New Age of Flex-Flex-Flex-Flex-Flex

    The New Age of Flex-Flex-Flex-Flex-Flex

    “You’ve gone too far this time / And I’m dancing on the valentine” – Duran Duran One of the weirdest demonstrations I’ve seen was from…

  • Fear the Economic Singularity

    Fear the Economic Singularity

    In dystopian science fiction, we are taught to fear the technological singularity – the time when artificial super intelligence advances to a point far beyond…

  • Finding Your Way with Bluetooth

    Finding Your Way with Bluetooth

    Do you know where you are? OK, dumb question; of course you do. You have a smartphone with GPS that tells you (and probably way…

  • Lunch With McDonald’s McKiosk: I’m Hatin’ It

    Lunch With McDonald’s McKiosk: I’m Hatin’ It

    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. – Asimov’s First Law of Robotics…

  • EEMBC Benchmarks Correlate Power with Performance

    EEMBC Benchmarks Correlate Power with Performance

    “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”…

  • The Moon, Moore’s Law, and Marketing

    The Moon, Moore’s Law, and Marketing

    I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and…

  • A Stacked Deck

    A Stacked Deck

    We’ve engaged in a decades-long battle to reduce the area footprint of integrated circuits in an attempt to put more faster stuff on one die…

  • RISC-V Business

    RISC-V Business

    “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” – Satchell Paige Last week’s RISC-V Tech Symposium, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain…