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Don’t Trust the Robot Driving Your Car
“It feels good when it stops.” It’s beyond dispute that cars are safer than ever before. Some of that is due to basic physics –…
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Priming the RISC-V Pump
We’re probably all aware at some level of the new processor upstart, the open-source RISC-V… core? No… architecture? No… instruction set architecture (ISA)? Yeah, that’s…
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Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Ring Canada’s CHIME
On January 9, Canada’s CHIME (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) radio telescope team described the detection of a repeating, milliseconds-long FRB (fast radio burst),…
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How to Get Rich (I Think)
“Plastics.” – Mr. McGuire, “The Graduate” Silicon Valley, like Las Vegas and parts of New York, is full of people with get-rich-quick schemes. But I’ve…
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Intel FOVEROS 3D Packaging
Moore’s Law said that we could double the number of transistors on an integrated circuit every two years. But there were a lot of variables…
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Putting Strays in their Place
There’s a big change coming in the automotive world. “Duh,” you say? “Um, hello! Self-driving!” you insist? Well, yes, that too, but that’s not the…
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Extracting Power from Seawater without Nuclear Fusion
Every once in a while, I find it refreshing and stimulating to stop thinking about circuits and to ponder where we will get all of…
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The Old Man and the C Debugger
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four Three engineers are sitting in…
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Will Cars Be a MEMS Sensor Bonanza?
OK – quiz time: what do you think the top three upcoming applications for semiconductors are going to be? If one of the categories you…
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Baby You Can Drive My Rover
“Beep beep’m beep beep yeah,” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney While several companies are expending significant resources and large amounts of energy to develop…