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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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The Economist on Silicon Supremacy

A couple of weeks ago, the cover story of The Economist was Chip Wars: China, America…

• 12 min read
China , The Economist

CES Preview

It's nearly January so it is nearly the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which…

• 4 min read
hifi 5 , vison q6 , dna 100 , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Tensilica

Sunday Brunch Video for 16th December 2018

https://youtu.be/izP9iUskcXQ Made at the Cadence Marketing Holiday Party (camera…

• less than a min read
Automotive , risc-v , lidar , radar , vision , lynn conway , IEDM

Automotive Sensors: Cameras, Lidar, Radar, Thermal

Yesterday I wrote a sort of overview of the Cadence Automotive Summit that took place…

• 9 min read
Automotive , embedded vision , lidar , radar , ISO 26262 , automotive summit

Breakfast Buffet for November 2018

https://youtu.be/SxGTX1reCVw The three highlighted posts for November were: Diwali…

• less than a min read
breakfast buffet , tpu , google , photonics , PCB design

Automotive Summit: The Road to an Autonomous Future

Before Thanksgiving, Cadence held an Automotive Summit. I was going to dive into…

• 6 min read
Automotive , functional safety , lidar , radar , camera , ISO 26262

The Conway Disappearance Effect

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Lynn Conway sent me a link to an article that she'd written…

• 9 min read
mead and conway , lynn conway

IEDM: All About Interconnect

The first week of December means it is IEDM, the International Electron Devices Meeting…

• 11 min read
IBM , Samsung , transistor , cfaed , tuv dresden , IEDM

RISC-V: Real Products in Volume

I titled my preview of the RISC-V Summit RISC-V Summit Preview: Pascal or Linux?…

• 6 min read
Western Digital , risc-v , NXP , fadu , vega , Qualcomm , sifive

Sunday Brunch Video for 9th December 2018

https://youtu.be/M_d-K4yE_n4 Made on Cadence pathways (camera Sean) Monday: ICCAD…

• less than a min read

The Mother of All Demos

It is the 50th Anniversary on Sunday of a demo that took place on December 9th 1968…

• 5 min read
stanford research institute , doug engelbart , SRI , mother of all demos

Semiconductor 2018: Up and to the Right...But Memory Way Up

I was at a meeting of the ESD Alliance (probably still called EDAC back then) when…

• 5 min read
Intel , Memory , Micron , NVIDIA , SanDisk , Samsung , EDA , broadcom , Toshiba , ic insights , Semiconductor , Qualcomm , SK Hynix

Benedict's Christmas Present...ation: The End of the Beginning

Every year Benedict Evans of a16z does a "big" presentation on the future of mobile…

• 8 min read
benedict evans , Internet , a16z

Clayton Christensen on the Prosperity Paradox

Probably my favorite business book ever is Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's…

• 12 min read
clayton christensen , prosperity paradox , innovator's dilemma

ICCAD and Open-Source CAD

Every year in November it is ICCAD, officially the International Conference on Computer…

• 5 min read
woset , ICCAD , open source

Sunday Brunch Video for 2nd December 2018

https://youtu.be/0vF465hv62k Made in Cadence EBC (camera Sean) Monday: Neural Nets…

• less than a min read

"GDPR Is an Enormous Regulatory Own Goal"

During the summer I was on Twitter when I saw a tweet from Benedict Evans. He is…

• 9 min read
dmca , Europe , YouTube , gdpr , venture capital

An Illuminating Chat with Lumerical's CTO

During the recent photonics summit, I sat down with James Pond, the CTO of Lumerical…

• 4 min read
interconnect , Lumerical , photonics

Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights...and Photonics, the Silicon Festival of Li…

November 7 is the big day in Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, as it symbolizes…

• 7 min read
curvycore , photonics , silicon-photonics

Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?

One subject that regularly gets some traction in the news is whether cellphones cause…

• 8 min read
stastical significance , cellphones , significance , p-hacking , mobile , brain cancer , p-value

Neural Nets Hit the Roofline—Memory for AI

At the recent Linley Processor Conference, there were two interesting presentations…

• 4 min read
artificial intelligence , Memory , deep learning , DRAM , roofline , AI

Sunday Brunch Video for 25th November 2018

https://youtu.be/yroiWVJA8vs Made on top of Haleakala, Maui (camera Carey Guo) Monday…

• less than a min read

The Fermi Paradox

It's the day before Thanksgiving. Breakfast Bytes will be dark Thursday and Friday…

• 6 min read
offtopic , fermi paradox , drake equation

Google TPU Software

In yesterday's post I gave the details of the TPU hardware from Cliff Young's keynote…

• 5 min read
codesign , tpu , google , Linley

Inside Google's TPU

At the Linley Fall Processor Conference recently, the keynote on the second day was…

• 6 min read
tpu , google , TensorFlow , machine learning

Sunday Brunch Video for 18th November 2018

https://youtu.be/G12sQpq0JSI Made on Maui (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Portable Stimulus…

• less than a min read
PCB , security , artificial intelligence , processor , Perspec , linley group , semi , Sigrity , pss , AI , Allegro

The Linley Halloween Processor Conference

Halloween saw the latest Linley Fall Processor Conference. It is only a few years…

• 10 min read
linley processor conference , wave computing , Linley , Tensilica , ARM

Mechanical, Thermal, EMI, SI, PI: PCB Design Needs Them All

Back in the days when Roger Moore was James Bond, there were various criticisms of…

• 3 min read
PCB , Signal Integrity , PCB design , Sigrity , thermal , Allegro
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