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Risk Mitigation: Don’t Make Storage an Afterthought in Software-Defined Vehicles
I was just cogitating on the company Western Digital. In turn, this led me to ruminate on the Monty Python movie The Life of Brian.…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 7: HP Loveland, The Hermit Chipmaker
The first six parts of this article series described developments at major semiconductor vendors that played big roles in the MOSFET’s development. However, because fabs…
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The Non-Contact Body Temperature Measurement Market Heats Up
I don’t like to boast but, as one of the leading engineers of my generation (according to my mother), I’m a dab hand at measuring…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 6: Intel – The Third Time’s a Charm
Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore are inextricably linked to the three most important commercial semiconductor companies in the history of semiconductors. First William Shockley brought…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 5: RCA – The Persistent CMOS Contrarian
When Bell Labs announced the creation of the first working MOSFET by Atallah and Kahng in 1960, RCA Labs was immediately interested. Like IBM Research,…
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AMD Awes with End-to-End 5G Telco Solutions
I’m sure that the folks at AMD and Intel don’t like to be compared to each other, but it’s a bit difficult to avoid doing…
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Welcome to 21st Century Heavy Equipment Automation
I have a friend. Why are you laughing? It’s true. We’ll call my friend Howard (because that’s his name). Howard works for a company called…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 4: IBM Research, Persistence, and the Technology No One Wanted
In 1952, the same year that IBM introduced its first electronic computer, the tube-based Model 701, the company became an original licensee for the Bell…
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We’re Going Back to the Moon (and LDRA is Helping to Get Us There)!
I’m scared of being in a submarine. I don’t know why because I’ve never been on (or should it be “in”) one of these magnificent…
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A Brief History of the MOS transistor, Part 3: Frank Wanlass – MOS Evangelist, Inventor of CMOS
It’s hardly surprising that semiconductor companies were reluctant to invest much energy into MOSFET development in the early 1960s. Early MOSFETs were 100 times slower…