The Chevrolet Volt was a technological marvel from its very launch. A so-called plug-in extended range electric vehicle that could be operated entirely on battery power as long as it was only driven short distances or for hundreds of miles on gasoline. But something happened on the way to the market that suggests deeper troubles… Read More
Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC BusinessThe second chapter of our book “Fabless: The…Read More
Why IP Quality and Governance Are Essential in Modern Chip DesignBy Kamal Khan In today’s semiconductor industry, success…Read More
U.S. Electronics Production GrowingU.S. electronics production has been on an accelerating…Read More
Inference Acceleration from the Ground UpVSORA, a pioneering high-tech company, has engineered a…Read More
Qualcomm is Back on Top of the SoC World!
In 2015 Qualcomm stunned the fabless semiconductor world with an unprecedented layoff. When I first heard about it the number was 5% but it kept growing and finally hit 15%. The big misstep here was, that after being the SoC leader starting in 2007 with the Snapdragon series of chips that powered the Smartphone revolution, QCOM did… Read More
Memory War Z: Samsung spins antidote to 3D XPoint
The 2016 edition of the Flash Memory Summit produced more than the usual amount of excitement. Samsung’s response to the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint challenge arrived in new slideware, indicating the war for next-generation SSDs is just starting. Who has the advantage?
We’d all like to think this is about creating a breakthrough technology,… Read More
I already live in the future and so should you
I live in the future. I drive a Tesla electric vehicle, which controls the steering wheel on highways. My house in Menlo Park, Calif., is a “passive” home that expends minimal energy on heating or cooling. With the solar panels on my roof, my energy bills are close to zero — and that includes charging the car. My iPhone is encased in a … Read More
How Connected Healthcare is Becoming Vital
There is one word that describes the direction that the health care industry is heading, “connectivity”. This catch all term is used to describe using the internet to increase the reach of medicine. This is also known as the internet of things (IOT) and it is nothing new. It is however relatively new to healthcare.
The goal of connected… Read More
Pokemon Go’s Roots in Early Human Behavior
The popularity of Pokemon Go is really no mystery – it has its roots in our hunter gatherer evolution. Pokemon Go was an App that was just waiting to happen. It’s a perfect storm. It is the scavenger hunt brought into the modern age. But more importantly it recapitulates what our ancestors had to do to survive. It taps primal and… Read More
Keynote: Silicon is the New Steel: Building the World’s First Terascale Network
Prof. Thomas Lee from Stanford University is the keynote speaker at the upcoming 38th EOS/ESD Symposium (September 11-16, Anaheim). The EOS/ESD Symposium is focused on discussing the issues and providing the answers to electrostatic discharge in electronic production and assembly.
Abstract:
Steel transformed civilization… Read More
The Higgs Boson and Machine Learning
Technology in and around the LHC can sometimes be a useful exemplar for how technologies may evolve in the more mundane world of IoT devices, clouds and intelligent systems. I wrote recently on how LHC teams manage Big Data; here I want to look at how they use machine learning to study and reduce that data.
The reason high-energy physics… Read More
Webinar Alert – Helping Mixed Signal not be Mixed Up
Today’s profound statement: “don’t fall in love with your tools, figure out the biz process change first.” Mixed-signal SoC designers are having ample challenges with their design process and are in need of design management, but don’t want another tool to do it.… Read More
Apple, Alphabet, AT&T – We Have a Problem
Poor Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Emmy award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN, a neurosurgeon and professor and now an explainer of distracted driving as part of CNN’s weeklong report on Driving While Distracted which concluded last Saturday. He offers a detailed medical explanation of driver distraction as only a neurosurgeon… Read More
PDF Solutions Charts a Course for the Future at Its User Conference and Analyst Day