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What Will Replace DRAM and NAND, and When?
Long, long ago, back when Richard Nixon was president of the United States of America, magnetic cores were the dominant computer memory technology. In fact,…
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Redpine Signals Enters the MCU Arena
“The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.” – Andy Dunn Innovation vs. inertia. It’s a familiar struggle…
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Validate Twice, Build Once
As electronic system design has evolved, the practice of designing in specialized silos has broken down. Challenges such as signal integrity for multi-gigabit signals has…
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Batteries as a Service
Batteries have woven themselves intimately into our lives. But are they friend or foe? They’re obviously friends when they let us move around with untethered…
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Racing to the End of Moore’s Law: The New World Semiconductor Order
There’s a new world order coming for the semiconductor industry, said A.B. Kahng. We’re racing to the end of Moore’s Law, and the race will…
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Keyssa Connector Isn’t a Connector
“There is no Moore’s Law for pins.” – Ajay Bhatt, Keyssa I admit it: connectors are boring. They’re the night-shift janitors of the electronics world,…
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The Pivot to Relevance
Imagine that you were a company investing lots of cash in a specific new-product direction, and you went to your customers to tell them the…
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The Radio Shack at the End of the Universe
“Let’s do the time warp again.” – Riff Raff My relationship with Radio Shack goes back more than 50 years, when the company opened a…
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CPU Security Gets Hardcore
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry” – Thomas Paine Sometimes security is just for show and sometimes it’s the real…
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Ye Olde FPGA Acceleration
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that FPGA-based compute acceleration is suddenly a hot topic. And, even from under the rock, you…