2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec

2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec
by Daniel Nenni on 01-04-2024 at 6:00 am

Matt Burns Samtec

Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. It has been an honor working with Matt and his team for the last 3 years and I value… Read More


Podcast EP191: The Impact of Evolving AI System Architectures and Samtec’s Role with Matt Burns

Podcast EP191: The Impact of Evolving AI System Architectures and Samtec’s Role with Matt Burns
by Daniel Nenni on 11-03-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Matthew Burns, Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries.

Matt and Dan discuss revelations from the recent… Read More


Samtec Innovates a New Approach for High-Frequency Analog Signal Propagation

Samtec Innovates a New Approach for High-Frequency Analog Signal Propagation
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-22-2023 at 10:00 am

Samtec Innovates a New Approach for High Frequency Analog Signal Propagation

We are all familiar with the tradeoffs between copper and fiber for digital signal transmission. The short version is that fiber is flexible, like copper but supports higher data rates with less loss over longer distances. The bad news is that converting digital signals to light and back again isn’t a trivial process. These kinds… Read More


Samtec Lights Up MemCon

Samtec Lights Up MemCon
by Mike Gianfagna on 03-20-2023 at 6:00 am

Samtec Lights Up MemCon

Every conference and trade show that Samtec attends is better for the experience. Samtec has a way of bringing exciting and innovative demos and technical presentations to any event they attend. I personally have fond memories of exhibiting next to Samtec at an early AI Hardware Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain… Read More


PCIe 6.0: Challenges of Achieving 64GT/s with PAM4 in Lossy, HVM Channels

PCIe 6.0: Challenges of Achieving 64GT/s with PAM4 in Lossy, HVM Channels
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-14-2023 at 6:00 am

Multi Level Challenges

As the premier high-speed communications and system design conference, DesignCon 2023 offered deep insights from various experts on a number of technical topics. In the area of high-speed communications, PCIe has a played a crucial role over the years in supporting increasingly higher communications speed with every new revision.… Read More


Podcast EP113: How Samtec is Enabling AI Growth in the Cloud and at the Edge with Matt Burns

Podcast EP113: How Samtec is Enabling AI Growth in the Cloud and at the Edge with Matt Burns
by Daniel Nenni on 10-14-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Mattew Burns, Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries.

Dan and Matt discuss the recent AI Hardware Summit… Read More


A Look at the PCIe Standard – the Silent Partner of Innovation

A Look at the PCIe Standard – the Silent Partner of Innovation
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-26-2022 at 6:00 am

A Look at the PCIe Standard – the Silent Partner of Innovation

Let’s face it. Standards aren’t always exciting, and the process of ratifying new versions can be time-consuming and tedious. Regardless, we all know standards are the glue that bind many ecosystems and without them the technology world would be good measure more chaotic. Standards come in many versions, with various amounts… Read More


Webinar – 112 Gbps PAM4 Implementation with Real-World Case Studies

Webinar – 112 Gbps PAM4 Implementation with Real-World Case Studies
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-18-2022 at 10:00 am

Webinar – 112 Gbps PAM4 Implementation with Real World Case Studies

Are 112G PAM4 channels in one of your current or future designs? If you’re focusing on advanced products, the answer is likely YES. Design of these channels is quite challenging. Silicon design, SerDes, PCB traces, and interconnect all need to be balanced to achieve success. As they say, getting there is half the fun. An upcoming… Read More


Passion for Innovation – an Interview with Samtec’s Keith Guetig

Passion for Innovation – an Interview with Samtec’s Keith Guetig
by Mike Gianfagna on 03-03-2022 at 6:00 am

Keith Guetig

There’s a lot to be said for staying power. I’ve met many people in my career who simply resonate with a company – their products, culture, and direction. People like this build an organic knowledge of the company’s products and its customers. They contribute to a culture that helps enable great companies. Keith Guetig is one such… Read More


Podcast EP63: The growing importance of interconnect architecture

Podcast EP63: The growing importance of interconnect architecture
by Daniel Nenni on 02-18-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan and Mike are joined by Matt Burns, technical marketing manager at Samtec. Matt focuses on why interconnect architecture has become so important for state-of-the-art system designs. The markets that are driving these requirements, along with the challenges and how to address them are provided.

The discussion concludes… Read More