There’s a valley of death for hardware startups. Ironically, it occurs when companies start selling their product. Pre-revenue startups raise money on stories of limitless potential, of rocketship growth and products flying off the shelves. Post-revenue startups don’t have that luxury. They need to tell stories of revenue growth, high margins, and traction. They need →
After a hard slog, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography seems to be closing in on a long-sought quarry: a light source bright enough to pattern chips cheaply and keep Moore’s Law marching along. The technology, which uses 13.5-nanometer light instead of today’s 193-nanometer light, could—at least in the short term—allow chipmakers to create finer features without →
Power Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing Three possible solutions: specialized architectures, millivolt switches, and 3-D memory http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/power-problems-threaten-to-strangle-exascale-computing Posted from WordPress for Android →
What is impedance? Impedance is very technical measurement that is hard to explain without equations and some scientific jargon. When you want to understand impedance, first think about electrical resistance (represented by R), measured in Ohms. In basic battery circuit battery generates a voltage which tries to force a current around the circuit connected between →
Future quantum computers might not be all that different from the one you’re using now. An international team of researchers have created a the most fundamental part of a quantum computer—the quantum bit, or qubit—using only a CMOS transistor that is not much different from those in today’s microprocessors. http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/computing/hardware/qubits-quantum-computing-with-run-off-the-mill-cmos-transistors Posted from WordPress for Android →
The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore’s law. Now things could get a lot more interesting. http://www.nature.com/news/the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-law-1.19338 Posted from WordPress for Android →
This is continuation to Interesting VGA hacks hacks posting. Interesting VGA hacks hacks was concentrated on using VGA card for nontraditional uses, this posting on the other hand concentrates on generating VGA signals with other hardware than VGA graphics card. It seems that modern microcontrollers are well suited to display information on analog VGA monitors: →
In what feels like a fairly historic moment, Intel has effectively called an end to the long-running Moore’s Law. The Law itself dictates that transistor density on chips will double every 18 months to two years, effectively doubling the performance capabilities. Not so anymore according to Intel executive VP William Holt, who admitted as much →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/materials/roll-to-roll-electronics-manufacturing-rolls-on Posted from WordPress for Android →
A power supply is an electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load. Most of the power supplies you use every day are the AC-DC power supplies that convert mains AC power (typically in 100-240V range) to low voltage DC (typically 5V to 24V). In those power supplies the output will be electrically →