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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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Persistent Memory

Last week was the latest Persistent Memory Summit. In the semiconductor world, we…

• 8 min read
persistence , Intel , non-volatile , persistent memory summit , ReRAM , optane , MRAM , persistent memory , 3dxpoint

CES: 5G, All Hat and No Cattle

Increasingly, CES seems to be less about consumer electronics, and more about the…

• 9 min read
5G , mmwave , CES , MWC

IEDM: Embedded Memories

On the Sunday of IEDM are two short courses, one memory-focused, and one logic-focused…

• 6 min read
Memory , deep learning , eflash , flash , envm , RRAM , MRAM , PCRAM , edram

Sunday Brunch Video for 27th January 2019

https://youtu.be/1gxIy7TGg3c Made at EBC (camera Sean) Tuesday: DesignCon: The Integrity…

• less than a min read
DesignCon , bletchley park , Amazon , gsa , dan niles

Amazon Go: Just Walk Out Shopping

Last year you probably heard about Amazon Go when it opened in Seattle. This is a…

• 3 min read
amazon go , mobile , Amazon , whole foods

"The First Half of 2019 Is Likely to Be Really Bad"

The title of this post was the single line summary of Dan Niles' quarterly outlook…

• 5 min read
capex , niles , Semiconductor , mobile , gsa

Why the Nation That Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead

Last month I wrote about a piece that Lynn Conway wrote for IEEE Computer Magazine…

• 9 min read
colossus , bletchley

DesignCon: The Integrity Show

It's the end of January and that means DesignCon. It is January 29th to 31st in the…

• 3 min read
PCB , DesignCon , Power Integrity , silicon photonics , Signal Integrity , photonics , Sigrity

Sunday Brunch Video for 20th January 2019

https://youtu.be/Bs5A09med6Q Made at the Cadence campus in the rain (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
alphazero , CES , AMD , Tensilica , EUV , IEDM

MLK Off-topic: The Lady with the Polar Chart

It's Martin Luther King day on Monday, and Cadence is off. I think that this is the…

• 5 min read
offtopic , florence nightingale , statistics

IEDM: EUV, the Road to HVM and Beyond

At IEDM in December, the Sunday preceding the conference proper consists of two short…

• 8 min read
asml , EUV , IEDM

AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start

Last year I wrote about AlphaZero in my post Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero .…

• 7 min read
deep learning , alphazero , go , AI , stockfish , chess

AMD Keynote at CES

As I said in my post about CES last week (see my post Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI…

• 9 min read
Lisa Su , CES , AMD

Tensilica at CES

Tensilica has been attending CES for many years, before it was acquired by Cadence…

• 3 min read
hifi 5 , CES , Vision P6 , Tensilica , dna100

Gordon Moore Killed the Oakland Tribune

The Oakland Tribune closed down in 2016. It remains to be seen if the San Jose Mercury…

• 7 min read
newspapers , journalism

Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI, and Air Taxis

I'm sure you've heard the great marketing catchphrase that "What happens in Vegas…

• 5 min read
Apple , Consumer Electronics , CES , ces2019

SiFive: The Magnificent Seven

At least for now, I think that the most significant of the RISC-V processor companies…

• 7 min read
risc-v , ARM , sifive

Breakfast Nibbles: Predictions for 2019

It is the start of the year, so time to provide my predictions for 2019. These are…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , China , Memory , deep learning , 3nm , cloud , DRAM , 5nm , neural networks , EUV

2018: A Year of Breakfasts

It's the start of a new year. Tomorrow, I'll pick out what I think that the big trends…

• 5 min read
security , Automotive , artificial intelligence , China , deep learning , photonics , 5nm , EUV

Sunday Brunch Video for 8th January 2019

https://youtu.be/tAMYvJJcPy0 Made at Vieira Park, San Jose (camera Carey Guo) Wednesday…

• less than a min read
interconnect , risc-v , esperanto , ruthenium , maxion , swerv , IEDM

RISC-V Cores: SweRV and ET-Maxion

December was the first RISC-V summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I covered…

• 6 min read
Western Digital , risc-v , esperanto , maxion , swerv

IEDM: The World After Copper

I remember Gary Patton, the CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, telling me once that research…

• 9 min read
interconnect , cobalt , copper , 3nm , contact , imec , amat , 5nm , IEDM , rubidium

150th Anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements

Happy New Year, and welcome to another year of Breakfast Bytes. This year is the…

• 5 min read
mendeleev , periodic table

Sunday Brunch Video for 1st January 2019

https://youtu.be/my0o9-PD-a8 Made at the Cadence EBC (camera Sean) Monday: CES Preview…

• less than a min read
The Economist , CES , flying , puzzle , hotels

Silent Night

Happy Christmas from Breakfast Bytes. It's Christmas Eve 2018, and 200 years ago…

• 2 min read
silent night , anniversary , off topic , Christmas

Off Topic: Are You Smarter Than Google?

It's the day before Cadence is shut down for the holidays. Breakfast Bytes will resume…

• 7 min read
off topic , monty hall problem , are you smarter than google

Top 10 Hotel Pet Peeves

When it comes to hotels, I have simple tastes. As long as the bed is comfortable…

• 10 min read
hotel , travel

The Breakfast Bytes Guide to Flying

I fly a fair bit, a little over 100,000 miles a year in the last few years. There…

• 9 min read
flying
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