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TSMC Technology Symposium Preview: Note New Location!

By Paul McLellan | 23 Apr 2018

Before I go any further, after years and years of being at the San Jose Convention Center, this year's TSMC Technology Symposium has moved. It will be in the Santa Clara Convention Center. And, while on that topic, Arm TechCon later this year is ...

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TSMC Tech Symposium | fabless | TSMC | 5nm | 7nm | foundry
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 23rd to 27th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 20 Apr 2018

https://youtu.be/h5Hs6zxcALc Coming from RSA Conference, Moscone West, San Francisco (camera Jessamine McLellan) Monday: TSMC Technology Symposium Preview Tuesday: Linley: Training in the Datacenter, Inference at the Edge Wednesday: R...

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security | rsa conference | rsa | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | Linley | Tensilica
CDNLive EMEA Preview

By Paul McLellan | 20 Apr 2018

The thing everyone always wants to know about CDNLive EMEA, since it is held in Munich in May, is "Will Bayern München be staying at the hotel?" during the conference, like they did a couple of years ago. The good news is that Munich is still i...

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Munich | CDNLive | CDNLive EMEA | münchen
AMI and IBIS: Who Put the Eye in AMI?

By Paul McLellan | 19 Apr 2018

Have you heard of IBIS and AMI? If you are French, you know that one is a chain of cheap hotels, and the other is the word for a friend. But if you have anything to do with SerDes design, then you know that they are the way you model the SerDes ...

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dfe | AMI | equalization | IBIS | SerDes
CEO Outlook: Cloudy with No Chance of Meatballs

By Paul McLellan | 18 Apr 2018

Recently, the ESD Alliance organized the annual CEO Outlook panel with Simon, Wally, Grant and Dean. I covered the opening statements yesterday , but I figured it would get too long to put everything into a single post, so here's the rest of the eveni...

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security | cloud | ARM | esd alliance | Mentor
The ESD Alliance CEO Panel: Forecast Very Cloudy

By Paul McLellan | 17 Apr 2018

Recently, the ESD Alliance organized the annual CEO Outlook panel with Simon, Wally, Grant, and Dean, moderated by Ed. OK, maybe first names aren't quite enough in EDA (is there another Wally in EDA?) but they are: Simon Segars, CEO of Arm (whi...

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Sonics | icmanage | ARM | esd alliance | Mentor
The ESD Alliance Becomes Part of SEMI

By Paul McLellan | 16 Apr 2018

Friday of last week I get home, sit down, and feel that the weekend has begun. Almost immediately, I get an email from Nanette Collins, who does press relations for a lot of companies, so I figure it's probably some announcement. It is, indeed, ...

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semicon | semi | EDAC | esd alliance
CDNLive Keynotes: What will Drive the Future?

By Paul McLellan | 13 Apr 2018

The new season of CDNLive kicked off earlier this week with CDNLive Silicon Valley in the Santa Clara Convention Center. The giveaway this year for visiting enough of our partners in the expo was the cute bear on the left. For those of you not from t...

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CDNLive | Lip-Bu Tan | Virtuoso
Visa, Priceless

By Paul McLellan | 12 Apr 2018

Well, okay. It's actually Mastercard that runs those "priceless" ads, not Visa. But this post is about visas, mostly the H-1B visa, since we don't have too many H-2A temporary agricultural workers in tech. There are lots of other visa types too, such...

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visa | h-1b
A New Era Needs a New Architecture: The Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP

By Paul McLellan | 11 Apr 2018

There is a trend for increasing sophistication in vision and in artificial intelligence (AI). There are many drivers of this, but two of the most important are the advanced capabilities of high-end smartphones and the demands of ADAS and autonomous d...

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DSP | android neural networks | linley processor conference | caffe | TensorFlow | Tensilica | vision | vision q6
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 16th to 20th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 10 Apr 2018

https://youtu.be/R3fdD-xR9So Coming from CDNLive Silicon Valley (camera Sean) Monday: ESD Aliiance CEO Panel I Tuesday:ESD Aliiance CEO Panel II Wednesday: Algorithmic Modeling Interface Thursday: AMI and DDR5 Friday:&...

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ddr5 | CDNLive | AMI | CDNLive EMEA | algorithmic modeling interface | esd alliance
Virtuoso 2018, a Fine Vintage

By Paul McLellan | 10 Apr 2018

In Post World-War II Blues, Al Stewart (who happened to go to the same high school as I did) sang: 1959 was a very strange timeA bad year for Labour and a good year for wine Well, it's too early to say whether 2018 will be a good year for ...

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Virtuoso | Sigrity | 5nm | Allegro
6 Ways to Get the Most Out of CDNLive

By Paul McLellan | 9 Apr 2018

It's CDNLive! Well, not today, Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. So I have six things you can do to get the most out of CDNLive and go home with a cute cuddly bear. And, if you are lucky, an Apple Watch or a MacBoo...

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Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL

By Paul McLellan | 6 Apr 2018

50 years ago today was the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie came about when Stanley Kubrick wrote to Arthur C. Clarke about a movie idea. Clarke was enthusiastic: The ‘really good’ science-fiction movie is a great many years o...

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kubrick | arthur c. clarke | 2001 a space odessey | 2001
Semiconductor Specialization Versus Valuation

By Paul McLellan | 5 Apr 2018

At SEMICON China, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes on the opening day. It was an update on his presentation Merger Mania that I covered a couple of years ago when Wally gave the keynote at that year's GSA Silicon Summit. Wally Rhines ha...

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Wally Rhines | Semiconductor | consolidation
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 9th to 13th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 4 Apr 2018

https://youtu.be/xEgjpNWtC1I Coming from Santa Clara Convention Center Theater (camera Sean) Monday: 6 Ways to Get the Most out of CDNLive Tuesday: embargoed until CDNLive Wednesday: embargoed until Linley Processor Conference Thursda...

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CDNLive | linley group | h-1b | Tensilica | microprocessor
How Low Can You Go?

By Paul McLellan | 4 Apr 2018

I slipped into an obscure bar in the no-man's-land between Santana Row and downtown San Jose. It was a weekday afternoon. There was only one other person in the bar. "I'm from imec," he said. "Ssh," I said. "Wall...

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3nm | imec | 5nm
Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero

By Paul McLellan | 3 Apr 2018

There are three major events in computers learning to play board games at a very high level: In 1997, Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov In 2017, AlphaGo defeated #1 world Go champion Ke Jie In 2017, AlphaZero defeated Stockf...

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artificial intelligence | alphago | alphazero | go | deep blue | chess
SEMICON China: Big, Really Big

By Paul McLellan | 2 Apr 2018

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Dick Selwood because we arrived together at the press room. He told me it was his last embedded world, since he's retiring, so I wish him well. I just read his piece on the conference...

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semicon | semicon china | 3D NAND | DRAM | 200mm
Clayton Christensen and the Innovator's Dilemma

By Paul McLellan | 30 Mar 2018

One of the most readable and influential business books of the last 20 years was Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma , which was originally published in 1997. I know that "readable" is not an adjective commonly applied...

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christensen | kodak | innovator's dilemma | digital equipment corporation
Hennessy and Patterson Receive the 2018 Turing Award

By Paul McLellan | 29 Mar 2018

The 2018 Turing Award, informally the Nobel prize in Computer Science, has been awarded to Dave Patterson and John Hennessy (along wth a cool $1M). They invented the RISC, the Reduced Instruction Set Computer. John Hennessy with MIPS at Stanford...

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risc-v | hennessey | MIPS | patterson | RISC
Tools and Processors for Computer Vision...and the Summit

By Paul McLellan | 28 Mar 2018

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Jeff Bier, the head of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and the organizer of the Embedded Vision Conference. He gave me a copy of a survey that they had run on tools and processors for ...

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Embedded Vision Summit | Embedded Vision Alliance | Tensilica | vision | neural networks
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 2nd to 6th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 27 Mar 2018

https://youtu.be/r6ctqTVCoH0 Coming from deep in space (camera Sean) Monday: SEMICON China: Big, Really Bit Tuesday: Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero Wednesday: How Low Can You Go? Thursday: Semiconductor Specialization Ve...

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Standard Cell | alphago | China | alphazero | semicon | 3nm | imec | SPIE | 2001
EDA: Not Like Household Products

By Paul McLellan | 27 Mar 2018

I wrote recently about why EDA sales are not like semiconductor equipment sales, despite having a lot of the same customers, and the same Moore's Law process technology treadmill. But EDA isn't like a consumer product either. Why Isn’t...

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EDA | demand creation | marketing
In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by People

By Paul McLellan | 26 Mar 2018

You probably heard that last week, a woman was killed in Phoenix by a driverless car. In 2016, 37,461 people were killed on US roads. So if that day was typical (and it probably varies by weekday versus weekend, at least) then about 100 people would ...

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automotive | uber | autonomous vehicles

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