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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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Passwords: Just Add Salt

This is a second post about passwords, picking up where Passwords: How Even Your…

• 5 min read
security , password , two-factor authentication , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 29th to February 2nd 2018

https://youtu.be/OtFTlu1u9xI Coming from TSMC North America (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
DesignCon , Models , TSMC , semiconductor IP , open source

Passwords: How Even Your Bank Doesn't Know Your PIN

In my predictions for 2018 piece yesterday, Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions…

• 7 min read
cryptographic hash , passwords , salt , hashing

Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2018

Every year Breakfast Bytes makes some predictions for the year. At the end of the…

• 7 min read
security , Automotive , 5nm , autonomous vehicles , EUV

Running a Salesforce

I decided to run some posts on different areas of companies, and what I have found…

• 10 min read
sales , salesforce , business development , sales management

Why You Shouldn't Trust Ken Thompson

I wrote yesterday about the two exploits, Spectre and Meltdown . I think that the…

• 7 min read
security , unix , thompson

Spectre and Meltdown: An Update

I wrote an extra Breakfast Bytes post a couple of weeks ago about Spectre and Meltdown…

• 10 min read
security , Intel , meltdown , AMD , x86 , Spectre , ARM

IEDM Short Course: After 5nm

The Sunday of IEDM is always two full-day short courses. One is on the future of…

• 7 min read
feol , 5nm , beol , IEDM , DTCO

Mobile World Congress in One Keynote

It was CES last week. Generally, this is not an event about mobile, mainly because…

• 8 min read
5G , baidu , CES2018 , Verizon , Qualcomm , mobile

CES Keynotes: Cars, Flying Cars, Dancers, Music, Lights...and Sustainability

As I said yesterday , it was the Consumer Electronics Show this week. I attended…

• 10 min read
quantum computing , Automotive , Intel , CES , Ford

CES Review: Rain...and Some Consumer Electronics

I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) all week. For 116 days through…

• 7 min read
Automotive , Consumer Electronics , CES , CES2018 , virtual reality , augmented reality

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 15th to 19th 2018

https://youtu.be/MPkAPCQyFvY Coming from Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas…

• less than a min read
5G , meltdown , ken thompson , JUG , CES2018 , Spectre , 5nm , what's for breakfast? , JasperGold

Post-Silicon Compute

At the SEMI Strategic Materials Conference (SMC) a few weeks ago, Lucian Shifren…

• 6 min read
moore's law , ARM , power , DTCO

Virtuoso System Design Platform Is Product of the Year

The title of this post says it all, but I'd better add a bit of color. Cadence was…

• 5 min read
virtuoso system design platform , Virtuoso , Allegro

2017: A Year in Breakfasts

So 2017 is over. Taylor Swift got into trouble for saying it was a great year and…

• 6 min read
security , Automotive , risc-v , nanosheet , broadcom , Qualcomm , 5nm , nanowire

GLOBALFOUNDRIES 7nm

Earlier in the week, I wrote about my meeting with Gary Patton the day before GLOBALFOUNDRIES…

• 3 min read
GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , IEDM

CES18 Preview

It's the start of a new year and that means it is the Consumer Electronics Show in…

• 9 min read
ces 2017 , deep learning , CES , audio , inception , atmos , Dolby , Tensilica , vision , neural networks

What is Meltdown? How Can It Affect Both Intel and Arm?

If you pay attention to anything to do with processors, security, or even investment…

• 8 min read
security , Intel , meltdown , x86 , ARM

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 8th to 12th 2018

https://youtu.be/txCnT3N4OSY Coming from Executive Briefing Center (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , CES2018 , semi , Virtuoso , ARM

Gary Patton on GF, IBM, 7nm, EUV, and More

At IEDM in December, I sat down with Gary Patton, CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, to discuss…

• 8 min read
fab8 , 7lp , 12fdx , gf , gary patton , malta , 12lp , GlobalFoundries , 7nm

Intel 10nm

At IEDM last month, Intel announced details of their 10nm process. Later the same…

• 5 min read
Intel , coag , FinFET , 10nm , Breakfast Bytes

Frankenstein

"Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"...and Frankenstein. What do these…

• 3 min read

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 1st to 5th 2018

https://youtu.be/Xja6H1meqac Coming from Yosemite National Park (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
Intel , ces 2017 , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , 10nm

Why Don't Planes Obey Moore's Law?

In my post about Silexica ( Silexica: Mastering Multicore ) I said that I like to…

• 9 min read
great flight diagram , aeronautics , tennekes , flight , simple science of flight

Blue LEDs, Nobel Prizes, and IEDM Keynote

At IEDM last week, for the first time, there was a second plenary session (awards…

• 6 min read
gallium nitride , nobel prize , Wally Rhines , LED , blue led , gan , IEDM

Ploughing 1 TB of RAM with Twenty x86 Oxen and 10,000 RISC-V Chickens

OK, that wins the prize for best title of a presentation in the recent RISC-V workshop…

• 11 min read
risc-v , celerity , boom , picochip , risc-v foundation , esperanto , sifive

RISC-V Workshop, Milpitas

The latest semi-annual RISC-V workshop took place the week after Thanksgiving. The…

• 8 min read
Western Digital , risc-v , celerity , boom , picochip , risc-v foundation , esperanto , 16nm , 7nm

COTS? Commercial Products in US Government Electronics

COTS is government jargon for Commercial Off-The-Shelf. This means the government…

• 8 min read
us government , minsec , department of defense
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