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The Back Side of Moore’s Law
Consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. If you’ve been following the news in the semiconductor market this past year, you’ve seen acquisition after acquisition. There is no doubt…
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Robots and Horseless Carriages
“If I get killed here, will my life insurance cough up money?” – A. J. Baime This is a story about Thanksgiving. Skip ahead if…
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The Industrial Internet Reference Architecture
Deep in the heart of Portland or Austin or Minneapolis or any of dozens of towns across the nation and the world, Makers are busily…
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Wind River Sets Rocket RTOS On Free Trajectory
It’s a business model as old as time. Give away the product but charge for the service. It works for razors and blades. It works…
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Marketing Math 201
Hello students, please take a seat. I’d like to welcome you to Marketing Mathematics 201. That’s right, compared with other “intro” classes, we have almost…
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Synopsys Hacked
Synopsys has joined an illustrious list of high-value names that are members of a growing club: companies that have been hacked. This week they announced…
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Cortex-A35 Is More, Better, Faster
“Mom, they did it again!” How do they do it? The engineers at ARM, I mean. They just keep cranking out new microprocessors, month after…
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Monstrous Memory
Altera quietly announced their new “Stratix 10 DRAM SiP” recently, and the headline almost slipped in below our radar. After all, we’ve been hearing about…
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Keeping Your IoT Secrets Secret
[Editor’s note: this is the sixth in a series on Internet-of-Things security. You can find the introductory piece here and the prior piece here.] We’ve…
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Securing the Small Stuff
Two points define a line.* That’s basic geometry. And when two CPU companies – the two biggest CPU companies in the world, no less –…