CEO Interview: David Moore of Pragmatic

CEO Interview: David Moore of Pragmatic
by Daniel Nenni on 12-01-2023 at 6:00 am

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David has almost 25 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Pragmatic, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Micron Technology, Inc. He also spent six years at Intel Corporation in various roles, including General Manager of the Programmable Solutions Group, where he led the multi-billion-dollar… Read More


Microchips in Humans: Consumer-Friendly App, or New Frontier in Surveillance?

Microchips in Humans: Consumer-Friendly App, or New Frontier in Surveillance?
by Ahmed Banafa on 10-11-2022 at 10:00 am

Microchips in humans

On 2021, a British/Polish firm known as Walletmor announced that it had become the first company to sell implantable payment microchips to everyday consumers. While the first microchip was implanted into a human way back in 1998, says the BBC News—so long ago it might as well be the Dark Ages in the world of computing—it is only recently… Read More


Extendible Processor Architectures for IoT Applications

Extendible Processor Architectures for IoT Applications
by Tom Dillinger on 10-17-2015 at 7:00 am

The Internet of Things has become a ubiquitous term, to refer to a broad (and somewhat ill-defined) set of electronic products and potential applications – e.g., wearables, household appliances and controllers, medical applications, retail applications (signage, RFID), industrial automation, machine-to-machine communication,… Read More


Unlock the Key to Ultra-Low Power Design

Unlock the Key to Ultra-Low Power Design
by Tom Simon on 06-20-2015 at 7:00 am

We have been hearing about low power for a long time. Fortunately, low power chip operation has come about through a large number of innovations. Key among these is clock gating, frequency and voltage scaling, managing leakage with lower threshold voltage, HKMG, and many other techniques. But we are entering the age of ultra low… Read More


NVM central to multi-layer trust in cloud

NVM central to multi-layer trust in cloud
by Don Dingee on 04-21-2014 at 4:00 pm

Pop quiz: Name one of the hottest applications for non-volatile memory – A) processor and code configuration; B) RFID tags; C) secure encryption keys; D) all the above. The answer is D, but not in the way you may be thinking; a new approach is using all these ideas at once, combined in SoC designs targeting advanced security … Read More


NFC, Why is this a big deal?

NFC, Why is this a big deal?
by Daniel Nenni on 01-18-2012 at 7:00 am


NFCis all over the news. Payments from your phone, yeah! I was wondering why this is a big deal, and why it has taken so long to gain momentum. I was issued a RFID enabled employee badge (JavaCard) 10 years ago while working at Sun. RFID is now so prevalent that Walmart attaches RFID tags to clothes. I spent an hour wading around the internet… Read More