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Don Lancaster: The Electronics Industry Lost Another Pioneer Last Year
The industry lost yet another pioneer last year, and his passing seems to have been largely unheralded. Don Lancaster was a prolific writer whose books…
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Want to Create Silicon Chips? Want Them Fast? Want them Cheap?
I’m currently contemplating an unusual annual technical conference. This affair is invitation only. Attendance is limited to 100 people give-or-take. In addition to the leading…
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How Will We Feed 8 Billion People? With AI’s Help, of Course
The Earth now needs to feed 8 billion people… every single day. The only way to meet this almost unimaginable demand for food is to…
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AI-Based Cybersecurity for Next-Generation Data Center Servers
Sometimes I envy the creators of early, unconnected computers. They could happily spend their days working on the fun stuff—both hardware and software—without worrying about…
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Is This the Next Level of Machine Vision for Autonomous Driving?
Earlier this year I penned a column explaining how Ambarella’s next-generation AI vision processors were targeting edge applications. The focus of that column was the…
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An Electrifying Discovery: Wondom’s $12 Internal UPS for Small System Designs
This article isn’t about a new product. It’s just new to me. The product is Wondom’s BCPB2, a charger, battery management system (BMS), and battery…
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Using AI-Enabled Robots to Automate What Cannot Be Automated
I’m a lucky man. I have very few regrets in my life. Sometimes I look back and think I would have enjoyed employing my skills…
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ST announces Edge AI Suite for Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers, sensors, and so on
ST has just formally announced the Edge AI Suite, a development tool set for its line of STM32 microcontrollers based on the Arm Cortex-M processor…
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Unleashing the Power of Quantum Computing
Before we dive into this topic with gusto and abandon (and aplomb, of course), it’s probably only fair for me to inform you that I…
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Lattice launches two new mid-range FPGA families with six more FPGAs into the FPGA wars
Last December, Lattice Semiconductor announced the Avant-E family of mid-range FPGAs (see “Lattice Strides Into the Mid-Range FPGA Arena With Avant”), and, at its Developer…