Time for a little fun again. Most of us played this game when we were kids. It fairly quickly degenerates into “infinity plus one” or the even more preemptive “whatever you say next plus one”. But if you’re not allowed to use infinity and you have to name the number and demonstrate how you get to it, is this still interesting? For mathematicians… Read More
Musk's new job as Samsung Fab Manager - Can he disrupt chip making? Intel outside- Musk chip lifeline to Samsung comes with…Read More
Enabling the Ecosystem for True Heterogeneous 3D IC DesignsThe demand for higher performance, greater configurability, and…Read More
Why I Think Intel 3.0 Will SucceedProbably one of the most anticipated semiconductor investor…Read More
Griffin Securities’ Jay Vleeschhouwer on EDA Acquisitions and StartupsJay Vleeschhouwer, Managing Director of Software Research at…Read More
Lethal data injection a much bigger threat
Watching a spirited debate on Twitter this morning between Tom Peters and some of his followers reminded me of the plot of many spy movies: silently killing an opponent with a lethal injection of some exotic, undetectable poison. We are building in enormous risks in more and more big data systems.… Read More
A Software Company Making Hardware
I’ve been a daily Facebook user for many years now and it keeps me in touch with family, friends, some business contacts and even a handful of high-tech companies. My first impression is that Facebook is a very successful, cloud-based, social platform staffed with software developers and a few marketing mavens. On closer… Read More
MIPI DevCon 2016: Opened to non-MIPI Members!
The MIPI Alliance was founded in 2003 by large IDM to standardize chip-to-chip interfaces in the wireless phone (mobile) segment. The various MIPI specifications (CSI, DSI, DigRF and many more) have been adopted by the application processor chip makers (usually large IDM or fabless, like Intel or Qualcomm initially and many … Read More
Car Sharing Contradictions
- Automotive News tells us that GM’s Julia Steyn, head of Maven, is thrilled with the early performance of this captive car sharing initiative, in comments yesterday in Traverse City, Mich.
- Tesla Motor’s Elon Musk anticipates limitless demand resulting from car sharing and automated driving, speaking on the company’s Q2 earnings
Establishing Principles for IoT Security
Much has been said about the potential of IoT. So much so, that it is has been featured at the peak of inflated expectations on Gartner’s hype cycle for quite some time. As the hype inevitably subsides, the reality of delivering the benefits of IoT grows, and the initial excitement turns to concern. Challenges around security and … Read More
Fabless Photonics Gets a Boost with Aurrion Acquistion by Juniper Networks
It was announced this week that Juniper Networks is acquiring integrated photonics fabless supplier Aurrion for an undisclosed amount. Aurrion was founded in 2008 by Dr. Alexander Fang of ex Intel and IBM fame and specializes in Indium Phosphide (InP) based transceivers for long-haul communications.
The twist that made Aurrion’s… Read More
LTE Trajectory Places High Demands on Baseband Processing
LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, and that is exactly what is happening. At the Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference 2016 we received a preview of what is coming in the mobile and wearable markets. LTE is one of the biggest drivers in this entire domain. There was much discussion about the LTE Release 12 and how it increases bandwidth,… Read More
efabless SemiWiki FAQ
The first post on efabless generated some interesting questions that I will re-post here. Again, crowdsourcing is an iterative process so your help is greatly appreciated:
Please forgive me my ignorance, but what is the difference between efabless and ChipEstimate?… Read More
Burned again – can smartwatches recover?
With Intel’s Basis Peak smartwatch on intergalactic recall and Apple’s smartwatch sales falling faster than Skylab, designers now must face the real questions: 1) what is the right use case, and 2) what are the right chips to implement it?… Read More
Musk’s new job as Samsung Fab Manager – Can he disrupt chip making? Intel outside