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AMD announces I/O-heavy Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA subfamily for low-cost designs
If you use low-cost – er – cost-effective FPGAs, there’s great news. You’ll have more choices sometime next year. AMD has just provided more details…
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CEO Pat Gelsinger splits Intel’s baby into Intel Products and Intel Foundry
Last month, Intel chucked a year’s worth of announcements into an event called “Intel Foundry Direct Connect.” Early in the event’s first two hours, Intel…
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Acoustic Detection of Drones
I always perceived my dad to be a peaceful person, which isn’t to say he didn’t have his off days (which would involve someone else…
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AMD’s x86 CPU and FPGA tango on Sapphire Technology’s Embedded+ PC motherboard
What could possibly be interesting about a new PC motherboard? New x86 CPU? Yawn. Fancy new cooling fan with blue LEDs? Oh puh-leeze! Integrated FPGA…
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Look At Something, Ask a Question, Hear an Answer: Welcome to the Future
A few days ago, I was introduced to a tempting taste of the future that had me squirming in my seat in excitement and anticipation.…
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FPGA maker Intel PSG spins out of Intel and adopts old name: Altera
A Fable: Once upon a time, in the incredibly wealthy Kingdom of Silicon, there lived a scrappy company named Duchess Altera, who shared the Duchy…
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Rise of the Robots (Well, Robot Arms)
Way back in the mists of time when I was a young lad circa the middle of the last century, towards the end of the…
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Tiny FPGA in Microchip’s latest PIC16 microcontroller adds real-time speed, sells for less than 50 cents
Microchip now offers a Flash-based microcontroller with an integrated programmable-logic block for less than half a dollar in volume. The nine members of the Microchip…
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AMFitzgerald and MEMS Infinity to Rule the PZT MEMS World
Generally speaking, I tend not to be interested in business-related announcements like strategic partnerships. I can’t tell you how many over-excited emails I’ve received informing…
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First Text-to-Speech, Then Text-to-Image, Now Text-to-3D-Animation
After seeing what I’ve just seen, you can consider (what I laughingly call) my mind to be well and truly blown. My poor old noggin…