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Superstar
People who are sports fans often watch in amazement when a superstar athlete gets a contract worth tens of millions of dollars. “Why,” they ask,…
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Cheap Chips
We all know the story: ASIC starts are falling as the costs of the design tools, the mask sets and the manufacturing process are all…
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Using Accelerometers to Check for a Fever
The People’s Polyharmonic Posse had a sound. Of course, all serious choruses have a signature sound, but these guys took it further than most. Their…
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Assault on Batteries
I had dinner with a real venture capitalist the other evening, and lived to tell about it. I can’t tell you everything we discussed that…
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Middle Child Syndrome
28nm is a calm, mature node. Sure, everyone was excited when it was the first to reach modern price, performance, and cost levels. We applauded…
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Life Under 20
We’re shrinking again. We’re moving past the 20nm node into the 16 or 14 realm (depending on how you or your marketing team counts it).…
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A Quantum Computing Milestone
With most of the articles I write, I try to do more than just parrot what someone else said: I really try to understand what…
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The Price of Ignorance
Apparently, $48,000 speaker wire is a real thing. You can also find $5,000 boxes for “cleansing” the AC power going into your audio gear. (Be…
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The Next Moore’s Law
We sit here in our dazed, progress-drunk technology buzz looking back at the half-century rocket ride that transformed not only our industry and engineering profession,…
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Data-Centric IoT Messaging
The internet of things (IoT) is all about sensor data and communications. It involves some entity taking the data it receives, making some complex (or…