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Challenged By FinFETs
There’s promise, and then there’s reality. The promise of FinFETs has been one of higher performance with lower power than would have been possible if…
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Synopsys Adds DSP Features to ARC Processors
Always wanted an ARM Cortex-M4 processor but didn’t like the popular instruction set and massive software support? Well, friend, your ship may have just come…
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Stuck in (Net) Neutral(ity)
This article is NOT about net neutrality. I’m hoping that opening declaration serves as a bit of a moat, as from what I’ve seen in…
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Pssst…
I should probably start here by laying out my biases. I’m not a shopper. And when I shop, I like to be left alone until…
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Power Windows 2.0
This week we’re going to talk about programming windows. No, I mean it. Literally, windows. As in, the glass outside your building. Think I’m nuts?…
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Mass to Maker
The Industrial Revolution was all about scalability. By developing efficient, scalable processes for manufacturing goods, engineers were able to create products for the masses more…
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Sub-threshold Design
We’ve been turning it down for years. Energy consumption has gradually grown as a concern, to the point where it’s eclipsed performance as a primary…
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Aiming Wireless Power
Not long ago, we looked at wireless power. And we looked at some of the standards and conflicts underway as companies and technologies vie for…
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Buy-Curious?
“Daddy, where do electronic components come from?” “Well, sweetheart, when a customer and a vendor love each other very much…” We’ve all had that awkward…
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Collision of Two Worlds
We are always trying to make machines that think faster. Before we finish building computers that can solve the last generation of problems, our imagination…