Interview Questions
Functional Verification Interview Question
One day at the lunch table in the cafeteria, your manager says that she recently learned that X-SIM, the VHDL simulato…
SSD
Samsung targets server CPUs with its new SSD
At this week's OCP Global Summit, Samsung disclosed details about a new type of solid-state drive (SSD), E-SSD dri…
Raspberry Pi
The Most Powerful Raspberry Pi Now Gives you 2/4/8GB of RAM
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently doubled the amount of RAM available in Raspberry Pi 4 to 8GB with a device selling…
Looking Glass
8K Holographic display from Looking Glass is shipping now
Looking Glass is now shipping its 8K holographic display, which utilizes 33.2 million pixels and 45-element light field…
Self Driving
Amazon In Advanced Talks To Buy Self-Driving-Car Tech Company Zoox
Amazon is in advanced talks to buy Zoox in a move that would expand the e-commerce giant's reach in autonomous-vehi…
Linus
Linus Torvalds Dumps Intel For 32-core AMD Ryzen On His Personal PC
Linus Torvalds released Linux 5.7 rc7 today, saying it "looks very normal... none of the fixes look like there'…
TI
Texas Instruments Makes It Harder to Run Programs on its Calculators
Texas Instruments' graphing calculators have a reputation as hobbyist devices given their program support, but they…
Manufacturing
China Injects $2.2 Billion Into Local Chip Firm
China's state-backed funds pumped $2.25 billion into a Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp . wafer plant…
Health
Permanently Working From Home Can Be Damaging For Mental Health
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that making remote work permanent could have serious consequences for workers' so…
Puzzles
Workplace FSM design challenge - Interview Question
You are part of the ""Chakra" design team, a combined smart-watch and goggles. A senior manager is comin…
TSMC
TSMC To Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory In Arizona
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract manufacturer of silicon chips, is set t…
Wi-Fi
FCC opened up 6GHz band for next-gen Wi-Fi devices
The unanimous decision opens 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for Wi-Fi 6E devices that are expected to begin arriving this ye…
Intel
Intel CEO Bob Swan: Bad Companies Are Destroyed by Crises
Intel CEO Bob Swan cited this quote from former CEO Andy Grove during a call with analysts. Intel has pledged $100 mill…
TSMC
Apple will likely begin selling Macs with its own processors in 2021
This news report from Bloomberg cites sources close to Apple who say that Apple is on track to introduce Macs running …
IP
RIPE opposes China and Huawei's "New IP" internet upgrade plan
Réseaux IP Européens French for "European IP Networks" or in short RIPE is a forum with an interest in the t…
VHDL
VHDL Online resources
VHDL Books There are dozens of great books talking about VHDL modeling, simulation and synthesis. Here are some of the…
Smart Phones
Motorola unveils $179 budget smartphone Moto G
The phone starts at $179 in the US without a contract. Contract-free prices for leading phones in the US typically exce…
Nexus 7
Android 4.4 KitKat update is heading to Nexus 7 and 10 starting today
Google has announced that the newest Android update, KitKat is being rolled out to Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 devices starti…
Intel
Tablets vs PCs
Check Out Brian Madden in this IT Consumerization video 'Tablets vs. PCs' brought to you by Intel. To learn mor…
WiMAX
A crash course in GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE and WiMax
This is almost a crash course in fundamentals on mobile standards. It does not matter if you are just a common man tryi…