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Intel Achieves AI Nervana
At CES 2019 in Las Vegas this week, Navin Shenoy – Intel Data Center Group executive vice president, announced the Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor…
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SigmaSense ICCI Goes Big
“Don’t touch me there.” – The Tubes The first transistor was invented in 1947, but did we stop there? No, our industry has been improving…
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PZ Progress for Sound Production
We’ve covered sound as a general topic quite a few times in these pages. When it comes to MEMS, however, most of that discussion has…
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MIPS Turns Another Corner
“You can always tell an engineer. But you can’t tell him much.” — anonymous If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. At first blush, that…
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Half Silicon, Half Plastic
Smaller packages are always better, right? And you can’t get smaller than the die itself, right? I mean, if you can attach a bare die…
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It’s Getting Hot in Here
So you need a precise, stable frequency, eh? Like, how stable? PPM stable? No problem… PPB stable? And just a few PPBs? Hmmm… that’s going…
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Now, For the Bad News
“Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.” – Tracy Morgan Space is limited. Unless you’re an astrophysicist, in which…
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The Solar System’s Fastest FPGAs Journey to the Sun Carrying a Microprocessor Relic on Board
The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees –…
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Z-Wave: Now with More Gecko!
“A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.” – Francis Picabia The great thing about…
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Intel’s Grand Vision
“With unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65,000 components on a…