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Spray-On Cooling
There’s nothing new about the need to cool silicon. It’s just that it used to be easy. Relatively. To be fair, for your average, run-of-the-mill…
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Blockchain is not Bitcoin—Bitcoin is not Blockchain
EEJournal readers ought to be very familiar with Bitcoin by now. All of the computing fruits of semiconductor technology, including microprocessors, GPUs, FPGAs, and ultimately…
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Where Do Silicon Chips Come From, Anyway?
“If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.” – Chris Rock The recent news that GlobalFoundries is suspending its 7nm…
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A Roll of the DICE
It’s midnight; do you know what your IoT device is doing right now? You do all the right things when designing your gadget: you do…
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Did Nantero Just Slam the Coffin Lid on DRAMs?
Intel finally succeeded in making a workable DRAM, the 1103, in 1970, and by 1972, magnetic-core memory was on its way out after a 20-year…
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Xilinx Puts a Feather in its ACAP
He stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni – Yankee Doodle CEO Victor Peng announced Xilinx’s 7nm Everest architecture, dubbed ACAP (the…
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News Flash: ARM Still Designing CPUs
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.” – Rodney Dangerfield The tease looked promising enough. “ARM will be making…
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Certifying the Certifier
OK, people: it’s time to talk again about how not to hurt or kill people (or other living things) with electronic gadgetry. Or more-than-gadgetry, like…
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FPGAs in Intel-Land
It’s all about the monetizing of the Xeon.” – Dan McNamara, Intel PSG Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Summit, held earlier this month at Intel’s Santa Clara…
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Birth of the AI Machine
The dawn of artificial intelligence has ironically coincided with the dusk of Moore’s Law. Just as our collective engineering genius begins to wane on the…