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  • Xilinx Turns a Page

    Xilinx Turns a Page

    Just over three years ago, Victor Peng took the helm as CEO at Xilinx upon the retirement of Moshe Gavrielov. The management transition marked the…

  • Dynamic Flash the Next Big Thing?

    Dynamic Flash the Next Big Thing?

    It was the best of DRAM access times, it was the worst of DRAM access times…  Do hybrid devices combine the best of two technologies,…

  • Are We Ready for Human Brain-Scale AI?

    Are We Ready for Human Brain-Scale AI?

    My poor old noggin is currently full of ideas ricocheting around like corn kernels in an over-enthusiastic popcorn machine. As a tempting teaser, are you…

  • We Interrupt This Program…

    We Interrupt This Program…

    At some point, the house of cards begins to topple over. It’s no secret that the x86 processor architecture is almost aged enough to collect…

  • Prophesee Image Chip Is Motion Sensitive

    Prophesee Image Chip Is Motion Sensitive

    Security cameras and image sensors are pretty stupid, as we’ve explained before. Yet they’re important for a range of applications that have nothing to do…

  • Aspinity’s Awesome Analog Artificial Neural Networks (AANNs)

    Aspinity’s Awesome Analog Artificial Neural Networks (AANNs)

    I’m a digital logic designer by trade. In an ever-changing and increasingly unreliable world, I find the certainty of Boolean equations to be extremely reassuring.…

  • ARM Announces Names and Claims

    ARM Announces Names and Claims

    In its latest gender reveal party, ARM today announced the names of its next generation of IP cores and… not much else. There weren’t even…

  • AIStorm Makes AI Sensors Cheap & Easy

    AIStorm Makes AI Sensors Cheap & Easy

    Sometimes it’s the little things. Call it small and cute, cheap and cheerful, wee and wonderful, sometimes the inexpensive entry-level products can be the most…

  • Spectacular Spintronics (Mechanical Electronics)

    Spectacular Spintronics (Mechanical Electronics)

    I’m currently so excited I can hardly speak (I can barely even manage a squeak) because today saw the launch of the Spintronics Kickstarter —…

  • Ampere Ups the ARM Ante

    Ampere Ups the ARM Ante

    They say there’s no such thing as “the cloud.” It’s just somebody else’s computer. That’s true, but it doesn’t mean that their computer is the…