Achieving inner peace
Clive Maxfield
What does it take to always be cheerful, to ignore aches and pains, to relax without alcohol, and to sleep without the aid of drugs?
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The profit
Diogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato said, "My good ...
Video: Dancing Lego
Clive Maxfield
This video involves a Raspberry Pi, five servos, and a bunch of Lego…
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Google to Apple: Catch us if you can
Thomas Claburn
Despite a low-key Google I/O conference this year, Google has transformed itself into a company of fearsome focus.
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peter_vandersteegen
fully agree
Could Intel enable $200 Ultrabook?
Dylan McGrath
Market research firm IHS believes the chip giant could reinvigorate the PC industry--if it's willing to sacrifice its own margins.
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DMcCunney
Could a $200 Ultrabook be made? Probably. *Should* one be? Er, *why?*
Folks here may remember the ...
Slideshow: Energy harvesters lift power from surprising sources
Elizabeth Montalbano
Researchers are coming up with new ways to harvest energy from sound vibration, footsteps, and even electromagnetic fields in the air.
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Just in the nick of Tempus
Brian Bailey
Cadence has introduced a new signoff timing simulator that introduces multi-core path-based analysis that they say will provide a 10X performance increase and 3% reduction in pessimism…
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Yoshida in Japan: Kyocera-Omron-Renesas connections
Junko Yoshida
Will Omron’s chairman be able to save deeply troubled Renesas? That's the $64 billion question swirling around Tokyo.
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JohnM555
Maybe it has got to do with the technology becoming more accessible than it was in 90s - read ...
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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resistion
Lucky for them to be able to choose to return to their country of origin.
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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DickQuill
Green Hills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfrFHw5bpXg
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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peter.clarke
An interesting point.
If Amazon did decide to pay staff in Coin could the company argue that ...
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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JAK620
I wasted 20 seconds reading this "article".
20 seconds that I will never get back.
The awesome majesty of the universe
Clive Maxfield
A recent science program on the television completely blew me away…
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Max the Magnificent
If anyone emails me at max@CliveMaxfield.com I'll send a PDF version of this blog including the ...
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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jim@tiriasresearch
thank you for laugh Nicolas. I think too many people are focusing on the size of the display, with ...
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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EREBUS
All technology advances run in cycles. A good company will embrace that change and prepare their ...
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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Thierry Klein
Peter – As a research consortium we welcome any and all companies to come join us in our efforts to ...
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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Max the Magnificent
Interesting...
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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embedsri
Inspiration - pure and simple!!! Spectacular work Commander Hadfield.
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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Doug Hosford
I have more French in ancestry than any other nation and from this perspective suggest that France ...
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 ...
