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As FPGAs have long been a technology used in a number of our system on modules, I read Steve Leibson’s recent post on EETimes – The State of the FPGA Union Is Uncertain – with great interest.
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One thing that I really enjoy about the end of the year is all the forecasts for the next year that start popping up. So naturally I enjoyed reading Gartner’s 2025 Top Strategic Technology Trends.
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Each year, Halloween yard decorations seem to keep getting more elaborate and more technology based – not to mention more expensive.
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It was good to see a reminder from Chris Coleman, writing recently on embedded.com, that addresses “how customer support and engineering teams can work better together.”
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First, a confession: I didn’t read the full report. It would have cost me nearly €7,000 (or nearly $8,000 US). But fortunately, Don Scansen apparently did, and wrote a good but too brief summary of APU – Smartphone SoC Floorplan Comparison 2024, the Yole Group’s study of smartphone application processors that was published in the […]
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Although I’ve done some running over the years – some Spartan races, a 5K or two – I am by no means a serious runner. Still, I do have a lot of admiration for runners – especially distance runners – and read with great interest a fascinating article by Jonathan Rosen on the latest high […]
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There's some rethinking rethinking going on about whether to take the industrial control systems (ICS) that govern so many of our most important industries offline.
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There are plenty of applications where AI can and should be used in the home. And one was chronicled last spring in MIT’s Technology Review. 
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most of us recognize that while AI is growing as a force, and will revolutionize entire industries, it does consume an awful lot of energy, leading to concerns about whether it is environmentally sustainable.
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Appliance-by-battery-operation may be  moving beyond the realm of small appliances and into the domain of heavy appliances like stoves, refrigerators, and washing machines.
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