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Like Fiber in the Sky
When you’re building out network infrastructure, it’s often that last hundred meters or so that causes the most headache. Sure, there are challenges getting all…
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A Wooden Stake?
A couple of years ago, we covered a company that was working to make power supplies more efficient. Today we update that story. But… if…
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A Decade of Partnership
Technology companies work with academic institutions for a range of reasons. The HR department wants to attract the brightest and best from the university students…
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The Quicker Fisker 2.0
“Not many people have been able to start a car company a second time.” – Henrik Fisker Let’s just come right out and say it:…
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Attacking Ageism in Engineering
We hear a lot these days about ageism in tech careers. Clearly, there is ample evidence that employers stack the deck in favor of younger…
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SSD Abstraction
Some memory technologies are straightforward. Like SRAM. You want to write a byte? You write a byte. You want to read a byte? You read…
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Let’s Get (a) Physical
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.” — Dennis Ritchie You can turn a…
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Acceleration as a Service
Let’s say you have a huge batch of data that needs to be crunched. Maybe it needs the special help of some new neural network…
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Unlikely Pairings
Companies come; companies go. I don’t focus a lot on who buys whom – there are plenty of folks breathlessly watching that stuff, so I…
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Lattice Lives on the Edge
A year ago, Lattice Semiconductor was all set to be acquired by Canyon Bridge Partners, a “global private equity buyout fund headquartered in Palo Alto,…