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  • Imagination Imagines a 5G Future

    Imagination Imagines a 5G Future

    Without science fiction, we’d have no science. After all, somebody had to dream about flying to the moon before somebody else could start working on…

  • Low Power, Wide Area

    Low Power, Wide Area

    If there’s one thing the Internet of Things (IoT) has in abundance, it’s protocols. Some are standards, some are standards-in-progress, and some are proprietary. I’ve…

  • Mentoring Makers

    Mentoring Makers

    The paper supply place down the block from my apartment may be the happiest retail store in all of Manhattan. Every time I walk in…

  • (Almost) Like FPGAs, Only Better

    (Almost) Like FPGAs, Only Better

    Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat. eASIC does not make FPGAs. As their name implies, they make ASICs (sort of). But their…

  • AMD Gets All Tokyo with Fiji

    AMD Gets All Tokyo with Fiji

    The semiconductor business is a lot like selling real estate. It’s not the dirt you’re paying for; it’s the location. A square acre in the…

  • A New Silvaco Emerges

    A New Silvaco Emerges

    You know that old Italian restaurant down the road a ways? Mamma – that’s what we called her; no one knew her actual name –…

  • Silicon Pioneer

    Silicon Pioneer

    More years ago than I want to think about, I expressed interest in a PR job at Intel. In a preliminary meeting, things were going…

  • Ad-Hocurity

    Ad-Hocurity

    No. Not another security article. Please, haven’t we all had enough? We’re afraid already. We are sick to death of the doomsday warnings about the…

  • RTFM vs. UIX

    RTFM vs. UIX

    People don’t read anymore. Actually, I’m not sure they ever did. Okay, I know – people do literally read words and stuff. They just don’t……

  • IoT Security Artifacts

    IoT Security Artifacts

    [Editor’s note: this is the third in a series on Internet-of-Things security. You can find the introductory piece here and the prior piece here.] This…