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The Cobalt Wave Continues
Cobalt seems to be making an inexorable move into more and more applications as device features shrink. It’s largely been replacing tungsten in prior forays:…
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MEMS Lidar for Driverless Vehicles Takes Another Big Step
“We must understand what infrastructure is needed to support 1 billion parcels a day.” – Jack Ma, Alibaba Executive Chairman Late in May, Alibaba Group’s…
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Living on the EDGE
“You say you want a revolution? – John Lennon There’s leading edge, there’s bleeding edge, there’s double-edged, and there’s over the edge. It’s hard to…
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Is AI the Killer FPGA Application?
Ross Freeman, co-founder of Xilinx, invented the FPGA in 1984. In the 34 years that have passed, FPGAs have been wildly successful and are certainly…
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A New ASIC for AI
Anytime the new cool thing comes around, all the cool engineers have to figure out the best ways to make it work. And we embark…
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Xilinx Hits the Road with Daimler
In what appears to be another win for Xilinx’s formidable Zynq SoC FPGA platform, Xilinx and Daimler announced a collaboration on “an in-car system using…
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Maybe You Can’t Drive my Car (Yet) Part 3
“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” – Jessica Rabbit In the last installment of this article series (see “Maybe You Can’t Drive My…
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Intel’s x86 Turns 40: Full of Vigor or Doddering Retiree?
Forty years ago, the calendar on the kitchen wall said it was 1978. People were taping All in the Family on their Betamax VCRs, the…
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More Tools in the Cloud
Seems like it wasn’t long ago that we did a piece on EDA in the cloud. And yet here we are again, with yet more…
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Goodbye to All This
This is a part of my goodbye to an active role in the world of electronics, a world I have been a part of, as…