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What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes
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Meeker on Internet Trends in India

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed…

• 5 min read
digital india , aadhaar , Mobile World Congress , mary meeker , ekyc , Breakfast Bytes , India

Meeker on Internet Trends in China

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed…

• 4 min read
China , uber , baidu , alibaba , whatsapp , on-demand transportation , wechat , taobao , mobile payment , tencent , ecommerce , Breakfast Bytes

Mary Meeker on Internet Trends

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed…

• 7 min read
meeker , mary meeker , cloud , media , Internet , mobile , kleiner perkins , healthcare , gaming , Breakfast Bytes , internet trends

The 500th Breakfast Bytes Post

This is the 500th post I've written for Breakfast Bytes since I re-joined Cadence…

• 3 min read
Paul McLellan , sunday brunch , what's for breakfast , Breakfast Bytes

Four Early Computers: 1 and 2

Recently I was at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View. For more about…

• 10 min read
ibm 1130 , ibm 370 , computer history museum , icl , ibm 360 , vax 11/780 , Breakfast Bytes , data general nova

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 28th to September 1st 2017

https://youtu.be/owSAPwuzYnA Coming from Saint Francis Yacht Club (camera Gary…

• less than a min read
meeker , China , mary meeker , Internet , India

Dare to be Different

Differentation Almost everything has to be differentiated from alternatives in…

• 8 min read
Automotive , Apple , Audi , differentiation , vw , Samsung , porsche , ADAS , BMW , autonomous vehicles , Smartphone , Huawei , Breakfast Bytes

Integrated Virtual Dummy Metal Fill

Some things in semiconductor manufacturing sound made up when you first hear about…

• 4 min read
dummy metal fill , Extraction , Timing Closure , virtual metal fill , Innovus , Quantus QRC , metal fill , advanced virtual metal fill , Quantus , Breakfast Bytes , avmf

SEMICON China Panel: Faster Than You Think

The afternoon of the first day of SEMICON West was taken up by a series of presentations…

• 7 min read
China , semicon , semicon china , semicon west , Breakfast Bytes

Linley Group Looks at the IoT Market

Recently the Linley Group held their IoT Hardware Conference. Mike Demler kicked…

• 6 min read
DSP , tensilica hifi 3z , linley group , Tensilica , linley iot hardware conference , Breakfast Bytes

German Computer Museums

After leaving the title of yesterday's post in German, the obvious place to go for…

• 4 min read
zuse z3 , zuse , deutsches museum , zuse z4 , nixdorf , Breakfast Bytes

Bayerische Motoren Werke und Fehlerkultur

Fehlerkultur is apparently untranslatable into English, at least according to Michael…

• 5 min read
bezos , Amazon , BMW , Agile , day 2 , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 21st to 25th 2017

https://youtu.be/IE1B-CmmtSs Coming from Cadence building 10 patio (camera…

• less than a min read
ibm 1130 , China , ibm 370 , integrated virtual dummy metal fill , differentiation , semicon west , IoT , ict 1900 , Linley , Internet of Things , ibm 360 , metal fill

There's More Voice in Your Future

Rich Kennewick gave the keynote on the second day of the Linley IoT Hardware Conference…

• 5 min read
alexa , cortana , voice , voicebox , amazon alexa

Automotive Software Development Used to End with SOP

Back in about 2001, when I was last working for Cadence, Cadence started bringing…

• 8 min read
Automotive , volkswagen , embedded software

Dolphins? In Milpitas? It's EDPS Time

Yes, it's true. After who knows how many years, EDPS is not going to be in Monterey…

• 4 min read
design process , Monterey , semi , EDPS , IEEE

British Computer Museums

This week we move to Britain. The industrial revolution started in the Midlands there…

• 8 min read
colossus , bletchley park , bombe , difference engine , science museum , Babbage

I Know What the SDI in Samsung SDI Stands For, and You Won't Believe It

How's that for click bait? But it's actually true.I didn't know what the SDI of Samsung…

• 8 min read
Automotive , Samsung , ludwigsburg , battery , Breakfast Bytes

Moving Logic to the 3rd Dimension

So the new Doctor Who will be a woman. Who(!) would have guessed? As it happens…

• 5 min read
flash , cfet , 3d nand flash , 3D , SRAM , vfet , dr who , Breakfast Bytes , DTCO

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 14th to 18th 2017

https://youtu.be/npWqpbJDMIA Coming from Stirling Castle, Scotland (camera…

• less than a min read
milpitas , Automotive , alexa , volkswagen , linley group , voice , EDPS , voicebox , linley iot hardware conference , computer museums , deutsches museum , BMW

Battery Derangement Syndrome

I have written a fair bit recently about electric cars and electric trucks. Note…

• 9 min read
forbes , lithium battery , battery , lithium , silicon , Breakfast Bytes , mark mills

Discovery of the Electron

Today is the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in…

• 6 min read
nobel prize , electron , Einstein , j.j. thomson , thomson , Breakfast Bytes

Computer History Museum History

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is on Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View in one…

• 5 min read
computer history museum , chm , gwen bell , Breakfast Bytes , Gordon Bell

O Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz...Truck

You hear a lot of talk about autonomous cars, but I've also heard many times that…

• 5 min read
autonomous trucks , mercedes-benz , convoying , Breakfast Bytes

An Academic View on How Tesla Will Not Win

Professor Markus Lienkamp, of Technische Universität München (roughly the MIT of…

• 8 min read
Automotive , German OEMs , Markus Lienkamp , Breakfast Bytes

BROADPWN: Attacking Smartphones through the Wi-Fi Chip

Do you have an iPhone? Did it suddenly update IoS at the end of last week? That's…

• 7 min read
aslr , dep , virus , android , Mobile World Congress , iOS , worm , broadpwn , malware

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 7th to 11th 2017

https://youtu.be/uIodpPVnsXM Coming from Cadence cafeteria patio (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Automotive , 3d logic , electron , london science museum , bletchley park , Samsung , transistor , lithium ion , 3d nand flash , samsung sdi , battery

Tensilica Has the Same Birthday as Harry Potter

You probably know that Harry Potter's birthday is July 31st. As it happens, that…

• 5 min read
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