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Embedded World Means Business
The overwhelming feeling about this year’s embedded world exhibition and conference is summed up by the late Douglas Adams: “Space is big. Really big. You…
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Top Ten Reasons to Be Scared of IoT
“Lies, damn lies, and statistics.” – common phrase attributed to many I love data. Data is good. (Data are good?) There’s nothing like good firsthand…
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Xilinx Previews Next Generation
New Xilinx CEO Victor Peng made his public debut by sketching out the latest vision for the world’s leading FPGA company last week, and it…
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When Lives Depend on Your Machine-Learned Model
“How to validate training data is an open question that might be addressed by some combination of characterizing the data as well as the data…
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Decoding Silicon Valley
“Silicon Valley is not a magical place, but magical things happen there.” – Jonathan C. Baer Earlier this week, more than 100 engineering consultants, a…
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Mentor Spackles Over Cracks in the Cloud
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” – Robert Browning We’re a long way from the clouds. Well, unless you’re…
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Xilinx Strikes Back – Kinda
This week, Xilinx hit us with a duo of SerDes-related announcements – a demonstration of 112G PAM4 electrical signaling technology for optical networks, and the…
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Life at 10nm. (Or is it 7nm?) And 3nm
There’s a saying: “Everything stays the same until it changes.” Well, perhaps we need a slightly modified version of this for semiconductors: “Everything stays the…
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A New Kind of Flexible Device
“Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” – Mark Twain One thing we know for sure about semiconductor chips is…
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Microchip, Microsemi, (and Atmel, and Actel)
Generally, we regard major semiconductor mergers as bad ideas. Usually, a big, clunky, non-differentiated technology conglomerate sitting on a pile of loot from some near-obsolete…