Breakfast Bytes Blogs

Next Tuesday afternoon, May 18, at 2:00pm PDT is the annual CEO Outlook meeting. It will be virtual, of course. But as a result, it seems to have a lot more CEOs than can easily fit onto a small stage. Ed Sperling will moderate. The CEOs are: Arm&md...

In the machine learning space, two significant things happened recently. The first was the recent Linley Spring Processor Conference 2021. The focus of the conference was processors for machine learning. Linley Gwenapp's keynote was titled D...

You probably know that Cadence acquired fluid dynamics meshing company Pointwise recently. I covered it briefly in my post Update: Pointwise, PCIe, RISC-V . I wanted to find out more, so I had a call with Pointwise CEO (or CEO Emeritus) John Chawner i...

At the recent Linley Processor Conference 2021I, Intel's Massimo Verita talked about Intel's eASIC N5X. He was asked during the questions whether this used Intel's EMIB packaging technology that provides buried connections inside the pack...

https://youtu.be/1HEd6JCriCQ Made in Groveland CA (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Package Assembly Design Kits Tuesday: Rapid Adoption of the Arm Server-Class Processors Wednesday: Arm V9A Thursday: Offtopic: Miniatur Wunderland Friday: no post Featured P...

Tomorrow and Monday are Cadence Global Holidays. Of course, May 1 is a holiday anyway, in much of the world (China takes the whole week, and it is a holiday in India and Indonesia too—so that gets you a lot of the way there). I am actually taki...

Yesterday, I wrote about rapid adoption kits (RAKs) for the latest Arm server-class processors. But it is only a few weeks ago that Arm announced the latest iteration of its instruction set architecture (ISA), V9A. It is obviously an exaggeration to ...

Arm has been moving from its foundational base in mobile into the data center, with server-class processors under the name Neoverse. Initially, there was the Neoverse-N1 processor. In addition, some hyperscale companies have been designing ...

At the recent IMAPS conference, Cadence's John Park presented on Package Assembly Design Kits: What are they and how they can benefit the packaging community. John started by looking at some history and trends in the market, since heterogene...

https://youtu.be/ZuxS3yM7RCw Made at Communication HIll, San Jose (camera/drone me) Monday: Update: Pointwise, PCIe, RISC-V Tuesday: Brian Jackson Introduces a Mystery Product at IMAPS (Shh, It's OrbitIO) Wednesday: Embracing a Zero Tru...

I recently attended a webinar with presenters from Dover, Cadence, and a mystery guest who was just a silhouette with the name Michael. The title was Lessons Learned from SolarWinds: How to Limit the Scope and Damage of Software Supply Chain Attacks....

President George H. W. Bush famously said that he didn't do "the vision thing". Well, here at Cadence we definitely do the vision thing. In fact, the Tensilica Vision DSP product line is the market leader in the vision thing. Until this week, the pri...

A couple of months ago, the National Security Agency (NSA) published a document titled Embracing a Zero Trust Security Model . I wrote about this topic almost exactly a year ago in my post From Castles and Moats to Zero-Trust Networking . The prob...

I have been criticized in the past for calling OrbitIO the "red-headed stepchild" of the Cadence product line. I think I shall have to improve my positioning and simply call it "ahead of its time". OrbitIO is the cockpit for all t...

This is another of my occasional update posts, covering changes to recent posts that are not big enough to justify an entire post on their own. Today, Pointwise and PCIe. You will almost certainly have to read further to discover who Pointwise is. Yo...

https://youtu.be/afv9_fRCrq8 Made at Target Oakridge (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: "Targeting" the Open Compute Project Tuesday: NUMECA, Computational Fluid Dynamics...and the America's Cup Wednesday: Benedict Evans on Tech 2021: Harder ...

I recently attended a Black Hat seminar titled The Evolving Maturity in Ransomware Operations. It was scary. A high-level summary would be that ransomware has become more targeted, more professional, and more lucrative. I am using the word "prof...

In my post "I Couldn't Imagine Being Too Poor for Servants, or Rich Enough for a Car" I wrote about that quote from Agatha Christie. Today, when a flashlight app on your smartphone needs "only" 250KB, it is hard for peopl...

This is a continuation of last week's post Benedict Evans' on Tech in 2021 . That covered Covid Acceleration and the Great Unbundling. Today, the rest of his presentation. Harder Problems In the first 20 years of the inter...

What is computational fluid dynamics, or CFD? And what does that have to do with the America's Cup? This year it was won by Emirates Team New Zealand. Their secret weapon was NUMECA's FINE/Marine CFD software, which was used to design the hull and fo...

Target (yes, that Target, the retailer) has an infrastructure and cloud conference, held last week. There CIO Mike McNamara (not to be confused with Cadence alumnus Michael "Mac" McNamara now CEO of Adapt-IP) announced that Target would joi...

https://youtu.be/D29rGqkkf80 Made in "Hawaii" (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Dynamic Duo 2: The Sequel Tuesday: Gall's Law and Big Ball of Mud Wednesday: Benedict Evans on Tech in 2021 Thursday: Cadence/Samsung Automotive Reference F...

You probably already know what ISO 26262 is. If you don't, then you can find out in several previous posts: "The Safest Train Is One that Never Leaves the Station" History of ISO 26262 ISO 26262...Chapter 11 What to Do About IP Developed Before ISO ...

Today, Cadence and Samsung announced the availability of an Automotive Reference Flow for Samsung Foundry's 14LPU process technology. In the press release back in 2016 when the process was first announced, Samsung said: Samsung’s fourth-ge...

Benedict Evans used to work in Silicon Valley for Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z) but he returned to the UK (he's British). But one thing hasn't changed—he still does a big Powerpoint early in the year about the major internet trends that are driving...