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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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Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero

There are three major events in computers learning to play board games at a very…

• 6 min read
artificial intelligence , alphago , alphazero , go , deep blue , chess

SEMICON China: Big, Really Big

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Dick Selwood because…

• 9 min read
semicon , semicon china , 3D NAND , DRAM , 200mm

Clayton Christensen and the Innovator's Dilemma

One of the most readable and influential business books of the last 20 years was…

• 9 min read
christensen , kodak , innovator's dilemma , digital equipment corporation

Hennessy and Patterson Receive the 2018 Turing Award

The 2018 Turing Award, informally the Nobel prize in Computer Science, has been awarded…

• 5 min read
risc-v , hennessey , MIPS , patterson , RISC

Tools and Processors for Computer Vision...and the Summit

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Jeff Bier, the head…

• 3 min read
Embedded Vision Summit , Embedded Vision Alliance , Tensilica , vision , neural networks

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 2nd to 6th 2018

https://youtu.be/r6ctqTVCoH0 Coming from deep in space (camera Sean) Monday: SEMICON…

• less than a min read
Standard Cell , alphago , China , alphazero , semicon , 3nm , imec , SPIE , 2001

EDA: Not Like Household Products

I wrote recently about why EDA sales are not like semiconductor equipment sales,…

• 6 min read
EDA , demand creation , marketing

In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by People

You probably heard that last week, a woman was killed in Phoenix by a driverless…

• 6 min read
Automotive , uber , autonomous vehicles

EDA: Not Like Semiconductor Equipment

It was SEMICON China last week, and I've written a couple of posts about it this…

• 6 min read
sales , semiconductor equipment , Emulation , marketing

Ajit and the History of SEMI

At SEMICON China, there was a press briefing with Ajit Manocha, the CEO of SEMI,…

• 6 min read
semicon china , semi , ajit manoja

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 26th to 30th 2018

https://youtu.be/dYLZaBsYBbA Coming from the Cadence cafeteria (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Embedded Vision Summit , 3nm , EDA , imec , Tensilica , vision , 5nm , innovator's dilemma

"Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US Computer Science

During the war, there was a lot of computer technology developed in all of UK and…

• 5 min read
MIT , Stanford , Berkeley , cmu , lick licklider , PARC

SEMICON China: Is This China's Decade?

One of the presentations on the opening day of SEMICON China, here in Shanghai, was…

• 5 min read
China , Taiwan , korea , KLA-Tencor , Semiconductor , japan

CDNLive, the New Season

It's nearly April and so it is the start of the CDNLive season. This year there are…

• 2 min read
Tom Beckley , CDNLive , chris re , Lip-Bu Tan , CDNLive Silicon Valley

SEMICON China: Me and 70,000 of My Closest Friends

If you want to know why I made the trek from California to Shanghai to attend SEMICON…

• 7 min read
semicon , semicon china , IoT , semi , m&a , Huawei

Semiconductor Rankings: Thanks for the Memory

I wrote recently about how Samsung's extraordinary 50+% year-on-year growth took…

• 8 min read
China , Memory , 3D NAND , NAND flash , DRAM , nor flash

China Bike Rental

In the last couple of years, one of the biggest changes in China has been the arrival…

• 9 min read
China , uber , lyft , bicycle , mobile , mobike , ofo

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 19th to 23rd 2018

https://youtu.be/2-ErrC9yy2k Coming from SEMICON China, Shanghai (camera Tracy…

• less than a min read
semicon , semiconductor equipment , semicon china , licklider , EDA

The Great Firewall of China

This is a continuation of yesterday's post on Walled Gardens . Arguably the greatest…

• 9 min read
China , Facebook , vpn

Walled Gardens

I'm in China this week, for SEMICON China, along with 70,000 of my closest friends…

• 4 min read
China , aol , google , Facebook , censorship , great firewall of china

Spanish Flu Is 100 Years Old on Sunday

This Sunday, March 11, is the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of Spanish flu in…

• 6 min read
spanish flu , h7n4 , flu virus , h1n1

embedded world: Mark Papermaster of AMD

The opening keynote from embedded world in Nuremberg was by Mark Papermaster, who…

• 4 min read
epyc , Automotive , ryzen , AMD , Embedded World

3nm Cadence and imec

I started Breakfast Bytes on October 8, 2015, my first day back at Cadence. The very…

• 4 min read
Genus , testchip , 3nm , imec , Innovus , 5nm

Spectre with a Red Hat, part 2

This is the second post about Red Hat's John Masters presentation at FOSDEM 2018…

• 6 min read
red hat , Spectre , jon masters , linux

Spectre with a Red Hat

A couple of weekends ago it was FOSDEM 2018, the largest conference on open source…

• 8 min read
security , meltdown , Redhat , Spectre , linux

Engineers, and How to Manage Them

I've covered various aspects of an EDA company: sales, marketing, application engineers…

• 6 min read
management , ambit , engineering

What the FEC is Forward Error Correction?

What is forward error correction (FEC)? It is automatically correcting errors in…

• 8 min read
fec , hamming , galois , Breakfast Bytes , shannon , forward error correction , networking , ECC

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 5th to March 9th 2018

https://youtu.be/YesJPmKCeio Coming from Embedded World, Nuremberg (camera Robert…

• less than a min read
AMD , IBM , 3nm , red hat , imec , Spectre , Embedded World , linux
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