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AI-Augmented Earbuds That Read Your Mind!
I was 16 or so years old when I built my first brainwave amplifier circa 1973. This was prior to the widespread availability of microcontrollers.…
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Hot Chips 2023 takes place on August 27-29, returning as a live/virtual hybrid event
Microprocessor vendors have used a number of industry events to reveal technical details of their latest creations, but the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley…
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The End of the Beginning of the End of Civilization as We Know It (Part 2)?
I think my dear old dad sometimes wished he’d been born in the American Wild West circa the 1850s. When I was a kid in…
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The End of the Beginning of the End of Civilization as We Know It (Part 1)?
I’m sorry for the “downer” of a title. Officially, this column should be called “Gruesome Gambols Gripping Generative AI (Part 4).” However, the more I…
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The Semiconductor Company from Another World: The Siliconix Story, Part 5 – Semiconductor Equipment and SEMI
Frances and Bill Hugle founded semiconductor equipment maker Hugle Industries in 1966. They’d decided to use the knowledge they’d accumulated in the semiconductor industry, starting…
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Gruesome Gambols Gripping Generative AI (Part 3)
What the What (WTW)? This is my new favorite expression. I picked it up yesterday when my wife (Gina the Gorgeous) and I binge-watched the…
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The Semiconductor Company from Another World: The Siliconix Story, Part 4 – Siliconix and Stewart-Warner Microcircuits
In their 15 years of working together since their marriage in 1947, Frances and Bill Hugle accumulated all the technical know-how they needed to manufacture…
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The Semiconductor Company from Another World: The Siliconix Story, Part 3 – Molecular Electronics
After spending five years at the DH Baldwin Piano company developing photocells for optical encoders, Bill and Frances Hugle were ready for a new challenge.…
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Gruesome Gambols Gripping Generative AI (Part 2)
I’m not having a good day. “Why so?” You ask. Well, thank you so much for caring. I have a sad tale to tell—one that…
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Gruesome Gambols Gripping Generative AI (Part 1)
I love being me, which is a good thing when you come to think about it, because I don’t think the alternative would be much…