The question in my headline is a bit of a tease. Intel doesn’t need saving, per se, but its reputation sure needs a makeover, and the company’s new CEO – Lip-Bu Tan – certainly has the chops and smarts to rebuild the financial community’s and the electronics industry’s trust in the once (and future?) semiconductor leader. Many pundits have opined already about Intel’s new … Read More → "Lip-Bu Tan steps into the Intel CEO role. Can he save the company?"
I wish I were going to attend the forthcoming IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, which is scheduled to take place next week as I pen these words. There’s a buzz building around this year’s event like “I know not wot,” as it were.
APEC 2025 will be taking place March 16 … Read More → "Need 3,000A to Power Your Next-Gen XPU?"
I’ve been following alternative and persistent memory technologies for 40 years. Back in the 1980s, all we had for semiconductor memory was SRAM, DRAM, EPROM, and {non-Flash) EEPROM. During the late 1980s, when I first transitioned from working as an engineer to an editor for an electronics publication, I wrote about nascent, low-capacity, persistent memories offered by two companies located in Colorado Springs: ferroelectric memory (FRAM) made … Read More → "Want to know the future of new memories (MRAM, FRAM, PCM)? Tom Coughlin and Jim Handy make predictions"
Believe it or not, I have been known to waffle just a tad before getting to the point. So, suppose we flip things round. What would you say if I told you I was just introduced to AC-to-DC and DC-to-DC converters that dispense with things like bridge rectifiers, electrolytic capacitors, and inductors, and replace everything with small, cost-effective solid-state equivalents?
Now that I … Read More → "Disrupting AC-DC and DC-DC Power Delivery from Data Centers to the Edge"
After working in and around China’s semiconductor industry for a decade, Doug Sparks wrote a book about his experiences. The book’s title, “A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story,” says it all, while only vaguely describing the 377-page book’s contents. That’s because only a small fraction of the book focuses on the state of China’s semiconductor industry. Instead, … Read More → "Doug Sparks Takes a Raw and Honest Look at the Chinese Semiconductor Industry"
