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Small, Selective Gas Sensors
One of the annual features at the MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress is the Technology Showcase, where 5 start-ups (or start-upoids) give quick presentations about…
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News Flash: Itanic Still Sinking
May the odds be ever in your favor. – The Hunger Games Intel announced the name of its IA-64 processor in October, 1999. The company’s…
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Itanium Deathwatch Finally Over
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky It’s not as though we didn’t see this coming, but it’s still a…
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Wireless IoT Flexibility
Let’s say that you’ve got some IoT equipment that you need to deploy out in some far-flung location. And you need to be able to…
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Moore’s Law and the Seven Devices
One transistor, two transistors, three transistors, four, Five transistors, six transistors, seven transistors, Moore. Way, way back in 1965, when the nearly prehistoric semiconductor industry…
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Teaching Alexa to Ignore Your TV
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan Distinguishing between a live human speaking and a recorded version of the same person is trickier than…
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Modernizing the Memory Hierarchy
We now live in a data-driven world. With the proliferation of IoT, we are rapidly ramping toward a trillion connected sensors on the planet, all…
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Outside the Silicon Valley Bubble
Anecdote 1. The familiar chime goes off on my phone: a text has arrived. I go to the phone to see what someone has to…
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In the Shadow of Moore’s Law
For the last half century, a large segment of the world’s electronic engineers have worked in the insane vortex of Moore’s Law. Entire engineering careers…
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Firefox Snippets, Inconsistent UIs, and Demon Developers
The road to hell is paved with good intentions – Proverb I’ve been using the Firefox browser for a very, very long time, and that’s…