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Why the Nation That Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead

By Paul McLellan | 23 Jan 2019

Last month I wrote about a piece that Lynn Conway wrote for IEEE Computer Magazine. See my post The Conway Disappearance Effect . I came across another article in the same issue When Winning Is Losing: Why the Nation that Invented the Computer Lost It...

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The Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship Winners

By MeeraC | 22 Jan 2019

Cadence is committed to building a culture that fosters inclusion and embraces diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Diversity in thought leads to diversity in innovation. But the gender gap in tech represents a major obstacle to those goals, ...

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Insights on Culture | Cadence Women in Tech Scholarship | STEM | giving back
DesignCon: The Integrity Show

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jan 2019

It's the end of January and that means DesignCon. It is January 29th to 31st in the Santa Clara Convention Center. Increasingly, the design of high-end PCBs is all about integrity: signal integrity, power integrity, EM integrity, thermal integrit...

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PCB | DesignCon | power integrity | silicon photonics | signal integrity | photonics | Sigrity
A Boost For Fabless Chip Design in India

By Madhavi Rao | 21 Jan 2019

There was a lot of excitement when the National Policy on Electronics was announced in 2012. However, in the six years that it has been in existence, it has not proven to be very effective in its aim of stemming the outflow of foreign exchange for el...

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National Policy on Electronics | entrepreneurship | Electropreneur Park | SFAL | FabCi | ESDM | npe
Sunday Brunch Video for 20th January 2019

By Paul McLellan | 20 Jan 2019

https://youtu.be/Bs5A09med6Q Made at the Cadence campus in the rain (camera Sean) Monday: Tensilica at CES Tuesday: AMD Keynote at CES Wednesday: AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start Thursday: IEDM: EUV, the Road to HV...

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alphazero | CES | AMD | Tensilica | EUV | IEDM