5G Smartphone ICs | AI and the 4 Clouds | AVs: Competing on Safety
All of the elements of the 5G consumer business are coming together. Network operators are building out infrastructure to expand 5G cellular coverage in more markets. What’s needed next is a wider var...
13 Sep 201932min
A Honking Huge FPGA | “American Factory” Review | A Tale of Two Cities: Hong Kong & Shenzhen
Xilinx just released one honking huge field-programmable gate array. We’ll discuss why anyone would need an FPGA more than one-and-a-half times bigger than the previous biggest. The political protests...
6 Sep 201931min
RISC-V Microcontrollers | Homomorphic Encryption | VW’s Keyless Innovation
Homomorphic encryption. It’s… well, it’s really complicated. Just stick around and we’ll explain it all. Chinese memory chip supplier GigaDevices just make a huge splash in China introducing a line of...
30 Aug 201924min
‘Smart’ Water Bottles | The Hottest Hot Chip | A Sensors & Photonics Merger
AMS decided to purchase Osram. The former specializes in sensors, the latter in photonics; together they’ll chart an intriguing technological roadmap. We’ll find out what the combination will mean for...
23 Aug 201924min
Opto Computing R&D | Broadcom Did What, Now? | Testing Autonomous Vehicles
This is your Briefing for the week ending August 16th. Photonics – it’s not just for fiber optics anymore. In this episode, we’ve got a discussion about photonics, quantum sensors, and the potential f...
16 Aug 201923min
5G & Jetpacks | UWB Rises from the Dead | Bob Swan Profile
Are you one of the hundreds of millions of people who can't wait to get a 5G cell phone? Your wait is almost over. Almost. Do you remember ultra-wideband? It was proposed a few years ago. Didn't catch...
9 Aug 201922min
Self-Driving: Failure by Design | TinyML | Alibaba’s IC Means So Much
This is your Briefing for the week ending August 2nd. We want the Internet of things to be smart, but being smart requires processing power – which will be lacking in millions of IoT devices. It’s wha...
2 Aug 201929min
How Much is Enough for Hyperscale Companies?
This week we’re mixing it up a bit. In this episode, we’re going to focus on a single topic. It’s how the world’s biggest companies are doing business in ways no company has before – and what that mig...
26 Jul 201929min
