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  • Ansys’s Big Data Platform

    Ansys’s Big Data Platform

    Hey there! Well it looks like you’ve just launched a full-chip analysis of your project, so… well, you’re gonna have some time on your hands.…

  • The Human Factor

    The Human Factor

    The imminent IoT is the final phase of a computing revolution that began decades ago. First, it was all about processor speed. From our puny…

  • Promises in the Dark

    Promises in the Dark

    “Knowledge Is Good.” – Emil Faber, founder of Faber College Data is good. So more data is better. Better enough to spend $3 billion, if…

  • Is Asymmetric Cryptography Necessary?

    Is Asymmetric Cryptography Necessary?

    So… what if you woke up one day and found that some basic tenets of IoT security that you thought to be true might not,…

  • Achronix Accelerates Today’s Data Center

    Achronix Accelerates Today’s Data Center

    We’ve talked a lot in these pages about the battle for the future of the data center. FPGAs, we say, represent the path to enlightenment,…

  • Zeno’s Paradox and the Chip of Choice

    Zeno’s Paradox and the Chip of Choice

    “?What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.” — Bertrand Russell There’s an…

  • We Have Contact

    We Have Contact

    We spend a lot of time talking about wafer materials and what might be in the future. And we spend a lot of time talking…

  • A Tale of Two Ventures

    A Tale of Two Ventures

    “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, ‘faster horses.’” – Henry Ford (apocryphal) A lot of business ideas seem obvious…

  • I Love DAC

    I Love DAC

    Trade shows are dead. Engineers are highly rational people, and there is no rational justification for squandering valuable travel budget, time, and other business resources…

  • Precision Medicine and Public Health

    Precision Medicine and Public Health

    imec’s Technology Forum in Brussels was strongly attended (by around a thousand people), despite the issues of international terrorism and national industrial disputes. The terrorism…