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Next-Gen Voice Interfaces for Smart Things and Loquacious Folks
I was just chatting with Mark Lippett, who is CEO at the British chip company XMOS. Mark was telling me that they recently announced the…
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How the FPGA Came to Be, Part 1
I started designing engineering workstations in 1981 for Cadnetix in Boulder, Colorado. The top computer-aided engineering (CAE) vendors of the day – Daisy Systems, Mentor…
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Renesas Announces Fabulous ForgeFPGA Family
It’s not often that I have the chance to introduce a new field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family, and even rarer that we get to greet…
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Which Was The First Microprocessor?
We love firsts in this industry, despite the fact that “the first” anything doesn’t necessarily win the market. Sometimes the first to market does win.…
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Celebrating Eleven IEEE Milestones at the Computer History Museum
September 11 is a somber day of remembrance in the United States for the terrible events that took place 20 years ago, but, this year,…
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For Your Holiday Shopping Pleasure: Paco Rabanne’s New Fragrance for Men goes Electronic
Just in time for Black Friday, here’s a holiday gift idea for that hard-to-please nerd on your list: Phantom, Paco Rabanne’s new fragrance for men,…
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Tortuously Topological Toroidal Transformations (Part Deux)
In my previous column on this topic, I noted that — for reasons that will be revealed in the fullness of time — I’m currently…
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The Metaverse is Coming and GridRaster Is Ready to Take Us There
Before we plunge headfirst into the fray with gusto and abandon and — of course — aplomb, I’d like to make mention of the fact…
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Xilinx Unveils U55C Data Center Card
With Supercomputing 2021 underway this week, all eyes are focused on high-performance computing (HPC) and the incredible advances we are seeing in the world’s fastest…
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Say Happy 50th Birthday to the Microprocessor, Part 2
Part 1 of this article describes how Busicom chose Intel to develop and manufacture the world’s first commercial microprocessor. Part 2 describes how the Intel…