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New Semiconductor Technologies Are Rarely What They Seem at First Glance
I watched the first season of “Ted Lasso” with my family over the Thanksgiving holiday in late November. If you’re one of the few people,…
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Meet the Flex6502 — A Flexible 6502 CPU
I don’t like to boast, but I was around to see the dawn of the microprocessor (cue Richard Strauss’s tone poem (orchestral music) Also Sprach…
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PCI-SIG’s PCIe 6.0 Spec Continues the Long, Happy Evolution of PCI Express
Well, PCI-SIG has done it once again. They’ve doubled the peak maximum bandwidth of the PCI Express (PCIe) bus by releasing the PCIe 6.0 specifications…
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Want to Make Your Data Impossibly Secure?
I’m currently ensconced in the command chair in the Pleasure Dome (my office) drooling with desire, as opposed to my usual modus operandi which involves…
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Printer Manufacturers Hoist by Their Own Petard
Once upon a time, long, long ago, printers used ribbons on metal spools that looked much like typewriter ribbons. In fact, some of them were…
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VMAccel Offers FPGA as a Service (FaaS)
The way in which my mind leaps from topic to topic with the agility of a young mountain goat sometimes gives me pause for thought…
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Founding Stories of Famous Electronic Distributors, Part 3
In Parts 1 and 2 of this article, I discussed the founding stories of two early pioneers in electronic component distribution (Sager and Allied) and…
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The Day the “NanoDrip” Moniker Became Sexy!
As always, I am amazed by the astounding ingenuity of the human race, of which I am proud to be a card-carrying member. The reason…
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You Too Can Rule the AoT with Audio Weaver
I am aghast, alarmed, astounded, shocked, and horrified. If pushed, I might admit to being flabbergasted (rarely has my flabber been so gasted). If I…
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Founding Stories of Famous Electronic Distributors, Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the founding stories of two early pioneers in electronic component distribution: Sager and Allied. These stories came…