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Microchip’s new $30 debugger fulfills Jack Ganssle’s prophecy from 30 years ago
Microchip didn’t become a leading microcontroller vendor by accident. The company built its PIC microcontroller business from nothing to significant market share over two decades…
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Is Integral Mind’s Digital Enlightenment Platform a True Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. A lot of people (my dear old mother, for one) think I’m clever.…
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Finding HP: An Italian Engineer’s Journey
Archaeologists are people who study “human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.” Over the…
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Lip-Bu Tan sets the course for Intel
Lip-Bu Tan gave his first keynote speech as Intel’s new CEO on March 31 at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas. He’d been on…
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TASKBOTs Set to Seamlessly Integrate into Human Workplace Environments
I fear that my poor old cranium has been crammed to capacity with contemporary concepts. For example, I have always understood the abbreviations HIL or…
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Max Maxfield publishes an Arduino Uno Bootcamp article series for embedded students and beginners
My friend and EEJournal colleague Max Maxfield writes for several publications. Case in point is a 24-article Arduino Bootcamp series he has written for his…
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Findchips: From Engineer’s Hack to Advanced Component Search Engine
As I may have mentioned on occasion, one of my favorite science fiction movies is the 1982 American-Hong Kong dystopian science fiction movie Blade Runner,…
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The Resharp story: A knife-sharpening robot may have taken root in your local hardware store
The practice of putting sharp edges on cutting tools dates back more than two million years. That’s when we think genus Homo started using hammerstones…
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Are You Going to RISC-V Con 2025?
I’m thinking of a RISC-V IP vendor. One that has a 30% market share of the global RISC-V IP market. One whose IP cores are…
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Lip-Bu Tan steps into the Intel CEO role. Can he save the company?
The question in my headline is a bit of a tease. Intel doesn’t need saving, per se, but its reputation sure needs a makeover, and…