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Information Monoculture
?“When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for…
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Sequential and Parallel Universes
There are two alternative realities out there in computation: the sequential universe – which is where our brains naturally conceptualize most algorithms, and the parallel…
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Green Hills/Integrity Premiers as Vehicular CA
Green Hills, the company known more for embedded systems and real-time OSes and such, is now a Certificate Authority (CA). Or, more accurately put, their…
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IPUs – A New Breed of Processor
Last year, Jim Turley wondered why we have ranges of different processors. Now I want to bring another TLA to the processor table – the…
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Making Your Phone Prettier
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.” – Bernard Manning In the…
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FPGAs Duel in the Data Center
When there are only two competitors in a race, the tactics change dramatically. Winning is no longer necessarily a matter of simply going as fast…
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A New Round of Multicore Tools
It’s been quiet on the multicore parallelization front for a while. We looked at one example a couple times several years ago: Vector Fabrics*. We…
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Solid-State Lithium Battery Renaissance?
It’s been quite a while since we looked at solid-state lithium batteries. They sounded like such a hot topic a few years ago, and then…
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Little Chips, Big Numbers
“I told the Inland Revenue I didn’t owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.” – Ken Dodd Things are looking up in…
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2017 – The IoT Administration Begins
During the fifty-year history of Moore’s Law, technological progress in electronics has served two distinct masters. While the industry produces an enormous range of technologies,…