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Look Who’s Making Chips
By Ed Sperling - 27 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 1

The entry into the chip business by companies such as Apple, and possibly Google, Amazon and a handful of others, may seem like a land grab in the semiconductor world, but the reality is that system companies have always done their own semiconductor design. Only the names have changed. IBM made its own PC processors, and it still makes them for its high-end servers. HP made chips for its PCs... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

ARM and its ecosystem teamed up to create a server platform standard based on the ARMv8-A processor. The new Server Base System Architecture specification leverages a broad swath of companies in ARM’s ecosystem, including Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, Linaro, Citrix, AMD, Broadcom, Citrix and Cavium, as well as OEMs HP and Dell. ARM has been successful in leveraging an ecosystem to win the lion�... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 03 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

The big buzz at this year’s CES is around wearable computing, according to Gartner, and the big drivers will be fitness and digital health. The firm believes wearable electronics will be peripherals to smartphones, which will provide connectivity to store and analyze biodata. Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 34,000 employees by the end of this year, or roughly 11% of its workforce, according t... » read more

How To Make A Brain-On-A-Chip
By Mark LaPedus - 15 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus In October, Draper Laboratory and the University of South Florida (USF) disclosed an ambitious plan to develop a brain-on-a-chip. The idea is to devise a “micro-environment’’ that mimics the human brain. Researchers hope to study neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, strokes and concussions. The eventual goal is to study the effects of drugs and v... » read more

Universal Memories Fall Back To Earth
By Ed Sperling - 20 Sep, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus Ten years ago, Intel Corp. declared that flash memory would stop scaling at 65nm, prompting the need for a new replacement technology. Thinking the end was near for flash, a number of companies began to develop various next-generation memory types, such as 3D chips, FeRAM, MRAM, phase-change memory (PCM), and ReRAM. Many of these technologies were originally billed as “uni... » read more

Low Power Everywhere
By Kiran Vittal - 14 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Kiran Vittal School is over for my kids and the summer holidays are here. We are planning to make minor modifications to our home, which includes installation of recessed lights. LED light bulbs are all over the place in home appliance stores and they claim 85% savings in energy costs with a life span of 50,000 hours. The cost of these LED bulbs is five to six times the cost of your average... » read more

The Tao Of Software
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling and Pallab Chatterjee As software teams continue to race past hardware teams in numbers of engineers, hours spent on designs and NRE budgets, companies are beginning to question whether there needs to be a fundamental shift in priorities and strategy. The problem is that it takes far too long to write and debug the software and to get it working on the hardware, even with vir... » read more

Greener Data Centers
By Ed Sperling - 10 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For decades the race inside the data center was all about performance. If you upgraded from an IBM Series/370 mainframe to a Series/380 your applications ran faster. And if you upgraded your PC server from a Pentium II to a Pentium 4 you got significantly better performance. The race now is to reduce the number of servers altogether, to lower the cooling costs per server ra... » read more

New Low-Power Memory Technology Under Development
By Pallab Chatterjee - 10 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Unity Semiconductor, which was formed in 2002 and has been in stealth mode until May of 2009, is progressing on the development of a very dense and low power non-volatile solid state memory technology. Unlike traditional semiconductor memory, which uses an active device and electron transport as the primary storage element, the Unity Semiconductor CMOx technology uses... » read more

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