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
Recalling Apollo 11 | What, Exactly, Is a Car? | AI Benchmarks
This week… Artificial intelligence is a vastly complex market. There’s a fierce competition among hardware vendors to be the best platform for AI applications. But first, you have to know what it mean...
19 Jul 201919min
