Failure Modes Of Wearable Electronics


Society has been enamored with wearable electronics for many years. From FitBit to Google Glass to Apple Watch, taking electronic technology to the next level has fascinated us. Wiki defines wearable computers (also known as body-borne computers or wearables) as miniature electronic devices that are worn by the bearer under, with or on top of clothing. This class of wearable technology has been... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT


Deals Advanced Semiconductor Engineering was selected by zGlue as its strategic manufacturing partner. The ASE Group will make the zGlue Integrated Platform, which is said to enable customization for consumer and industrial IoT markets. The ZiP integrates hardware and software in a modular 3DIC-based platform. ASE will assemble zGlue-certified chiplets for connecting through zGlue Smart Fabric... » read more

System Bits: June 21


Faster running parallel programs, one-tenth the code MIT researchers reminded that computer chips have stopped getting faster and that for the past 10 years, performance improvements have come from the addition of cores. In theory, they said, a program on a 64-core machine would be 64 times as fast as it would be on a single-core machine but it rarely works out that way. Most computer programs... » read more