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AMD Details Potential Ryzen Attack Vector
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature, if you publish it in the manual, right? AMD has taken a “white hat” approach to a possible…
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ARMv9: Fashionably Late
Silicon Valley is like Milan. One is the US center of high tech, the other is the fashion capital of Italy. The Valley has its…
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Want to Learn AI? But Where to Go?
I once worked for a large computer manufacturer that considered itself to be a “big cheese” in its headquarters’ hometown. For some reason, the folks…
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Micron Bails, Intel Does Optane Alone
There are a lot of ways to do nonvolatile memory. I mean, a lot of ways. There’s flash memory, of course, but also magneto-resistive memory,…
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Heresy and Horror Ahead at Intel
As the helmsman of the Ever Given, currently recently stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, can attest, turning a massive ship is no easy task.…
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Cyber-Security’s So-So Soup; Cyber-Resiliency Rocks!
In my previous column — Yay! Finally! A Way to Secure the Supply Chain! — we considered a cunning concept from the crafty chaps and…
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Cameras, License Plates, and You
So, there I was, fiddling around with networked cameras again, when I discovered that it’s really easy to read car license plates. So easy, in…
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Yay! Finally! A Way to Secure the Supply Chain!
I was brought up by my parents to have a suite of core values, including the fact that it was wrong to tell porky pies…
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What Is Your Invention Worth?
How much can you charge for your product? Anything you want, right? You can set the price arbitrarily high or low, and let your customers…
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Xilinx Back in the Cost-Optimized Game
If you’d asked me a year ago (or two, or three) what I thought about Xilinx’s cost-optimized device offering, I’d have told you that I…