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The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 06 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

Trade wars China and the United States are in the midst of a trade war. Click here for the latest from CNN. Meanwhile, click here for a list of the winners and losers so far. Display Supply Chain Consultants, a research firm, provides more insights from a hi-tech perspective. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the U.S.-based Consumer Technology Association (CTA), issued a statement abo... » read more

New Issues In Advanced Packaging
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 1

Advanced packaging is gaining in popularity as the cost and complexity of integrating everything onto a planar SoC becomes more difficult and costly at each new node, but ensuring that these packaged die function properly and yield sufficiently isn't so simple. There are a number of factors that are tilting more of the the semiconductor industry toward advanced [getkc id="27" kc_name="packag... » read more

Is The IoT Getting Safer?
By Ed Sperling - 01 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

The Internet of Things as we know has been in use in some form or another for at least a decade, but it is only in the past several years that it has achieved enough success that security has become an overriding issue. The fact that breaches are no longer shocking is a sign that attacks are becoming more common. Only the biggest and baddest hacks raise eyebrows, like today's hack of Germany... » read more

The Road To Autonomy
By Jeff Dorsch - 01 Feb, 2018 - Comments: 0

Visions of autonomous driving were everywhere at CES 2018 in Las Vegas and the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Still, while there is progress in the technology, it will be years before the average motorist can get a fully autonomous vehicle. Advanced driver-assistance systems are gaining in complexity and scope, representing steps toward automated driving. At CES 2018, ... » read more

Warp Speed Ahead
By Ed Sperling - 11 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 3

The computing world is on a tear, but not just in one direction. While battery-powered applications are focused on extending the time between charges or battery replacements, there is a whole separate and growing market for massive improvements in speed. Ultimately, this is where quantum computing will play a role, probably sometime in the late 2020/early 2030 timeframe, according to multipl... » read more

What Will 2018 Bring To The IoT?
By Jeff Dorsch - 10 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 1

The Internet of Things is widely expected to progress in 2018—especially the Industrial IoT—as industry standards get hashed out and more vendors take cybersecurity seriously. On the home front, many Americans are growing accustomed to artificial intelligence technology from their use of Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit, and Google Home devices. They’re talking to their remote controls to ch... » read more

Different Approaches To Security
By Jeff Dorsch - 29 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

Everyone acknowledges the necessity for cybersecurity precautions, yet the world continues to be challenged by an invisible, inventive army of hackers. The massive data breach at Equifax was only the latest in a series of successful cyberattacks on the credit monitoring firm. Lessons learned from the previous breaches apparently didn’t mitigate this year’s embarrassment for the company. ... » read more

Meanwhile, Back In Barcelona…
By Kyle Voosen - 06 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

We recently wrapped up another successful IoT Solutions World Congress (IoTSWC), hosted by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) in Barcelona. We’ve been participating in the Congress since its inception three years ago, and this year was particularly exciting given the Catalonia Independence Referendum happening at the same time. Even with this as a backdrop, the event attracted 50 percen... » read more

Security For Embedded Electronics
By Jeff Dorsch - 02 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

The embedded systems market is expected to enjoy steady growth in the near future—provided those systems can be adequately secured. One of the biggest challenges for embedded devices and systems, especially those employed in the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"], is adequately protecting them from increasingly sophisticated hacking. This is a new tool for criminal enterprises, a... » read more

Toward System-Level Test
By Ed Sperling - 09 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 0

The push toward more complex integration in chips, advanced packaging, and the use of those chips for new applications is turning the test world upside down. Most people think of test as a single operation that is performed during manufacturing. In reality it is a portfolio of separate operations, and the number of tests required is growing as designs become more heterogeneous and as they ar... » read more

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