The Data Deluge

By Ed Sperling - 23 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the intersection of big data and technology, from the data center to the edge and vertical markets such as automotive. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: What are the biggest changes you've seen over the past year? Tan: We are moving quickly toward data-driven economics. There... » read more

Dawn Of The Data-Driven Age

By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Autonomous vehicles, 5G, a security breach at Marriott hotels, and AI. These may seem unrelated, but they're all linked by one common thread—data. Data creation, management and processing always have been a winning business formula. In 2004, IBM sold off its PC business on the assumption that it could still achieve significant growth by managing its customers' data. The rapid buildup by co... » read more

Accelerators Everywhere. Now What?

By Ed Sperling - 08 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

It's a good time to be a data scientist, but it's about to become much more challenging for software and hardware engineers. Understanding the different types and how data flows is the next path forward in system design. As the number of sources of data rises, creating exponential spikes in the volume of data, entirely new approaches to computing will be required. The problem is understandi... » read more

When The IoT Really Works

By Dipesh Patel - 02 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

The IoT is a transformational tool for business. It gives them superpowers they never had before. This holds true whether it's an energy provider drawing data from its infrastructure to sense failures, a sensor-equipped building anticipating and then proactively dealing with occupants’ needs, or a retailer using data streams from its stores and warehouses to streamline operations. ... » read more

Energy At The Edge

By Ed Sperling - 17 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Ever since the first mention of the IoT, everyone assumed there would be billions of highly efficient battery-powered devices that drew milliwatts of energy. As it turns out, we are about to head down a rather different path. The enormous amount of data that will be gathered by sensors everywhere cannot possibly be sent to the cloud for processing. The existing infrastructure cannot handle i... » read more

Software-Defined Test And Measurement

By Jeff Dorsch - 07 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

Software-defined radios, instrumentation and test are ramping up alongside a flood of new technologies related to assisted and autonomous vehicles, 5G, and military/aerospace electronics, breathing new life and significant change into the test and measurement market. Software-defined test adds flexibility in markets where the products and protocols are evolving or still being defined, and wh... » read more

Tech Talk: Automotive Design

By Ann Mutschler - 22 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

NetSpeed Systems CEO Sundari Mitra talks about how to speed up the design of automotive chips. https://youtu.be/cus4fStDa5c » read more

Silicon’s Long Game

By Ed Sperling - 18 Dec, 2017 - Comments: 0

The era of all-silicon substrates and copper wires may be coming to an end. Progress in the future increasingly depends on more exotic combinations of materials that are developed for specific applications. But after years of predicting the death of silicon, it appears those predictions may be premature. That's not always obvious, given the growing number of chemical combinations being creat... » read more

Making high-capacity data caches more efficient

By Technical Paper Link - 24 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 4

Source: Researchers from MIT, Intel, and ETH Zurich Xiangyao Yu (MIT), Christopher J. Hughes (Intel), Nadathur Satish (Intel) Onur Mutlu (ETH Zurich), Srinivas Devadas (MIT) Technical Paper link MIT News article As the transistor counts in processors have gone up, the relatively slow connection between the processor and main memory has become the chief impediment to improving comp... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT

By Jeff Dorsch - 01 Sep, 2017 - Comments: 0

Finance Dublin-based Cubic Telecom has taken in €40 million (about $47.6 million) in Series C funding, bringing its total funding to €75 million (around $89.25 million). Audi Electronics Venture and Qualcomm are existing investors participating in the new round of funding, joined by new investors Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and Valid Soluciones Tecnologicas SAU. Cubic will use the mo... » read more

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