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A Tempting Taste of the AI-Powered World to Come
Recently, I talked to two young artificial intelligence (AI) start-up companies. Although these companies are tackling completely different problems, they both present a tempting taste…
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Indoor Voice or XCORE-VOICE?
I remember as a kid being constantly admonished by my mother to “Remember to use your indoor voice.” I also remember feeling quite aggrieved because…
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Book Review: “Silicon Planet” describes the hands-on, hard-knocks education of a processor architect
If you want the world to celebrate and remember your life’s accomplishments, the best way to achieve that goal is to write an autobiographical book…
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Grammar for Professionals, e.g. vs. i.e. All Becomes Clear
As I’ve mentioned in previous columns, one of my backburner hobby projects is writing a book called “Wroting Inglish: The Essential Guide to Writing English…
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With 18.5 million logic cells, AMD’s Versal VP1902 Premium Adaptive SoC becomes “World’s Largest FPGA”
In the relatively narrow world of FPGA-based prototyping and emulation, bigger FPGAs are always better. Always. With its 18.5 million logic cells, AMD’s Versal VP1902…
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Steve Sanghi’s new “Up And To The Right” book chronicles Microchip’s journey from nearly bankrupt to Top-20 semiconductor maker
Although he did not know it at the time, when Steve Sanghi left Wafer Scale Integration (WSI) to join Microchip in April 1990, he had…
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Want a Database Tailormade for Edge Computing?
We are constantly being informed about computationally intensive tasks moving out to the edge, like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), for example. Sad…
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Axiado Develops Swiss Army Knife for Platform Security
How much system security is too much? By the way, that’s a rhetorical question. No matter how much security you put into a system’s design,…
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Say Howdy to High Fidelity Software-Defined Sensing for the 21st Century
There are many things I don’t know much (if anything) about. So many, in fact, that I could write a book about them… or not,…
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Intel and Movellus Develop Different Fixes For IC Voltage Droop
Two presentations during the same week from Intel and Movellus highlighted radically different approaches to solving voltage droop, a problem that increasingly plagues SoC designs…