‘I Feel Like Little God!’ | The Pop of the TOPS | The Most Hated Company in The Biz
The Weekly Briefing podcast: What makes engineers tick? We’ve been doing these surveys, called the Mind of the Engineer, every two years going on nearly three decades now. Jim Warrick of Beacon Techno...
28 Aug 202045min
Living With Technology | Hot Licks from Hot Chips | Oh, Shenandoah
The Weekly Briefing podcast: When did our electronics become so hard to use? Junko & I lament the sorry state of nominally “smart” phones, “smart” homes, and other “smart” gadgets. Also, the Hot Chips...
21 Aug 202038min
Driver-Assist Actually Stinks | VR and “The Great C” | The Flush of Victory
The Weekly Briefing podcast: The AAA just evaluated some of the newest driver-assist features in new cars and it was very, very unimpressed. A discussion on why driver assist is so surprisingly bad, w...
14 Aug 202044min
Seismology 1: Nvidia & Arm | Seismology 2: US IC Manufacturing on the Rebound
The Weekly Briefing podcast: The semiconductor industry is negotiating two seismic events. First, Arm Holdings, one of the most important suppliers of semiconductor IP in the world, is reportedly up f...
7 Aug 202032min
The CHIP Act’s Blind Spot | A Lifeline for Intel | I Just Saw a Face
The Weekly Briefing podcast: Reviving semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. This week, we interview Adam Khan, founder and CEO of Akhan Semiconductor; he is joined by Akhan board member vice admiral...
31 Jul 202042min
More Than Moore | Ford Bets on Mobileye | The SRN1 serial G-12-4
The Weekly Briefing podcast: Cadence exec Tom Wong wrote an op-ed for us about how Moore’s Law still pertains. We talk with Wong about More Than Moore, and Beyond Moore – where the IC industry is goin...
24 Jul 202039min
It’s a Big Deal: ADI & Maxim | Green Age E-Waste Land | One Inspirational Step
The Weekly Briefing podcast: Analog Devices buying Maxim Integrated is the largest corporate takeover initiated in the semiconductor industry in four years, but it’s not immediately clear why it has t...
17 Jul 202036min
Electric Car Superiority | The Supply Chain is All Mine | Cookies for Calculus
The Weekly Briefing podcast: Auto expert Egil Juliussen has crunched the numbers, and he believes that completely battery-operated cars will be more cost-efficient than vehicles with internal combusti...
10 Jul 202034min
