Taiwan reversing brain drain
R Colin Johnson
Government funded research labs are enticing Taiwan's brightest expats to return in hopes of revitalizing the country as an innovator.
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asic_pal
It's similar case with India also, a lot of Good Engineers returning to home country with the Fast ...
What were they thinking: exhibiting at DAC
Brian Bailey
Every year there are new companies exhibiting at DAC and we all know that most of them will not be back. Here are two very likely candidates for that list…
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Frank Eory
Perhaps the tool from that injection molding company can come up with very accurate values for ...
London Calling: Amazon 'Coins' its own currency
Peter Clarke
Why has Amazon created its own money? A bit of fun, a short-term promotion, or could Amazon be testing the water ahead of a BitCoin-like move?
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Duane Benson
The biggest question that comes to mind is "why?" The "it's an easy way to..." really doesn't hold ...
Rapid progress in silicon photonics standards
Steve Schulz
Silicon photonics sees exciting developments, such as enabling data infrastructure to support codesign of electronics and microphotonics devices in the design tool flow.
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How much of the chip does IP fill?
Brian Bailey
How much content does it take to maker a chip unique? Maybe less than you think.
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Frank Eory
Chip surface area is a poor metric for measuring IP content. The trend of IP blocks -- both licensed ...
Can Samsung overtake Apple in 2013?
Susan Fourtane
Should we admit that there is in fact "a before and after" Apple's iconic CEO Steve Jobs?
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sranje
OK - you are correct, jklaffen - of course. But this used to be a professional engineering trade ...
The awesome majesty of the universe
Clive Maxfield
A recent science program on the television completely blew me away…
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BobsView
Max, does this look like the show?
www.history.com/shows/the-universe
Altera & Enpirion – great things to come
Clive Maxfield
I just had a briefing with the folks from Altera and Enpirion, and things are starting to make a lot more sense…
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Wearable computers have a long way to go
Jim McGregor
Wearable computers will likely be the next major wave in not only consumer electronics but also full-fledged computing solutions.
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nicolas.mokhoff
I can see the day when, besides the military, law enforcement will take advantage of wearing ...
Yoshida in Japan: Ailing companies to break away from past
Junko Yoshida
After posting an annual net loss of $5.4 billion, Sharp pulled off a major reshuffle of its management team by naming a new president and chairman.
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EDA/IP weekly roundup – May 15th 2013
Brian Bailey
Real Intent, Synopsys and Yamaha made the lineup today. See here for their news…
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EDA in the Cloud: OneSpin says your design is secure
Brian Bailey
OneSpin has a new offering that makes your design secure even while utilizing Cloud services…
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London Calling: GreenTouch is missing chip support
Peter Clarke
The consortium chartered with improving the energy efficiency of wired and wireless networks should turn to ARM to bolster support; unless Intel wants to get in first.
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help.fulguy
Peter, you are such a big brown noser of ARM. You should just work for them rather write these mushy ...
Was I just talking to an artificial intelligence?
Clive Maxfield
This may sound a little crazy, but I seriously think I may have just had my first conversation with an artificial intelligence.
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David Ashton
I know someone who DID give them what they wanted (yeah, there's some dummies out there) and their ...
April's contest had larger than life competition
Rick Merritt
Eight caption-eers made us laugh, but only one was selected as April's big winner.
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shanes1007
Speaking of contests, I'm loving LPKF's #myPCB contest: http://www.lpkfusa.com/mypcb/
Slideshow: Astronaut sings Bowie in space
Anne-Francoise Pele
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, the first music video made in space, has rocketed him across the web.
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Duane Benson
I'm glad he modified the lyrics a bit to get rid of the part where he floats off into outer space, ...
Should smartphones pay in defense of French culture?
Junko Yoshida
France plans to impose a tax up to 4 per cent on smartphones, tablets and all other Internet-linked devices to help finance French art, films and music.
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OldSchoolTwidget
Kind of like the State of Illinois, where one of the selling points for a State Lottery was that the ...
Samsung wants to launch 5G in 2020
Dylan McGrath
South Korean giant claims first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave bands.
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John.Donovan
Andrzej11 is right--this is a highly defined lab experiment filtered through the marketing ...
Cat in a shark suit riding a Roomba and chasing a duck
Clive Maxfield
Just when you thought you'd seen it all…
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jzzr
This must be some new meaning of the word "chasing" of which I was not previously aware.
Invisible embedded: 4- and 8-bit MCUs still sell
Jack Ganssle
The cliché "8 bits is dead" is dead. CPU/MCU shipments are exploding.
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Olaf.Barheine
Yes, I do. And as long as customers want to reuse their existing software libraries I will develop ...
Atrenta’s Ajoy Bose: 2nd rising of EDA
Brian Bailey
This is the second part of an interview conducted with Ajoy Bose, CEO of Atrenta. He talks about EDA in the past and the future...
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Can Google I/O 2013 top last year?
Thomas Claburn
Look for an improved Nexus 7 tablet, Android 4.3, a new language for App Engine and other products at Google's upcoming developers' conference.
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GroovyGeek
Sigh... Don't really care. All I want from Google at this point is to stop force feeding G+ despite ...
A Camera Lucida for the 21st Century
Clive Maxfield
A few days ago I became aware of a rather interesting project on KickStarter.com...
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Max the Magnificent
Can you show us some examples of your work with the iPad App?
Segars won't rock the ARM boat
Dylan McGrath
The incoming CEO of ARM obviously believes in one timeless adage: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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sw guy
conclude instead of concluded
Is iPhone upgrade really necessary?
Susan Fourtane
Upgrades that come too fast with too few new features are pushing consumers away from the every-18-months upgrade treadmill.
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Frank Eory
There are numerous reasons an owner of an older iPhone should be interested in upgrading to an ...
