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MIPS I7200 Breaks the Chain
“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.” — Galileo Galilei Heresy! Sacrilege! Apostasy! The RISC orthodoxy…
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How Does a Car Talk to the Cloud?
Pop quiz: Is a car a Thing? This gets us into that perennial discussion of what goes into what group. There are tons of IoT…
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Learn Programming from Facebook!
“Lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math.” — anonymous We’ve all been there. Your friend posts something stupid on Facebook, so…
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App Store for Acceleration
Cloud-based acceleration as a service is officially a thing, for real. You can go online right now, sign up for an AccelStore account, and within…
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The Annual Lithography Issue
It’s that time of year again. The SPIE Advanced Lithography conference has come and gone, and the time has come for our annual update on…
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Silicon Saxony
Even if you are Dresden for a high-tech trade show, like the DATE conference, you cannot avoid the layers of history. For a long time,…
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The End of Software
Tell a crowd of nerds that software is coming to an end, and you’ll get laughed out of the bar. The very notion that the…
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Please Don’t Hit Me!
“One person’s car is another person’s scenery.” — Jonathan Ive Cars are ridiculously dangerous. They’re easily the greatest threat to the average person’s life, assuming…
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New In the Cloud
7 years ago! Almost to the day! Astounding! We think of cloud computing as a relatively recent phenomenon, but it’s been seven years since we…
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Accelerating Mainstream Servers with FPGAs
For a number of years, the world’s largest semiconductor company’s primary marketing slogan was designed simply to remind us they existed. The “Intel Inside” slogan…