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iWatch, You Speculate Incessantly
I held out as long possible before writing anything iWatch related. The irony is that I am iFatigued with everyone iGuessing about an iUnnanounced product,…
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The Bozo Coefficient
If you sit and watch a busy street for any length of time, you’ll see a surprising number of bone-headed drivers, bicyclists, and even pedestrians.…
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The Sun Sets on Moore’s Law
The title may have put you off. In fact, it probably should have. After all, most of us in the press/analyst community have – at…
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Multi-Patterning Rollout
As we continue to try (and succeed at) stuffing more circuity into a tiny space than physics allows without great cleverness, we are drifting more…
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Enabling Creepy… and Cool
Video surveillance, CCTV, camera-toting drones, cellphone video, stoplight cameras – they’re everywhere! It seems as though no public space isn’t being recorded, filed, uploaded, and…
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Why Don’t They Just…
“Why don’t they just put solar cells on top of cars and power them that way?” His tone implied that the engineers designing cars were…
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Where is the Value? Where is the ROI?
When you think about it, the much-vaunted launch of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents an enormous investment in research, development, and rollout. Much is…
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Who Controls the Power?
Once upon a time, there were many little RISC processors frolicking in the deep green microprocessor forest. There was the jaunty little ARM. The bright…
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FPGA-Prototyping Simplified
System on Chip (SoC) design today is an incredibly complicated collaborative endeavor. By applying the label “System” to the chips we design, we enter a…
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An Irregular Street Scene
A silicon wafer will always be patterned with a perfect grid of rectangular dice. It’s so obvious that you don’t even have to think about…