Last week, Synopsys invited a handful of journalists and analysts to attend their annual SNUG (Synopsys Users’ Group) meeting for the first time in 30 years. Why? What message did the company want …
With Supercomputing 2021 underway this week, all eyes are focused on high-performance computing (HPC) and the incredible advances we are seeing in the world’s fastest computers. (OK, not really ALL…
For decades, FPGA companies have been bragging about how their devices can be used to accelerate all sorts of compute-intensive functions, and they have built a large market for themselves convinci…
There is an interesting side effect of Moore’s Law’s relentless march, where some technologies atrophy even though they are still extremely relevant and applicable in the mainstream. Take, for exam…
Just over three years ago, Victor Peng took the helm as CEO at Xilinx upon the
retirement of Moshe Gavrielov. The management transition marked the beginning of
a new era at the company, as Peng beg…
According to tech folklore, Carver Mead actually coined the term “Moore’s Law” – some ten years or so after the publication of Gordon Moore’s landmark 1965 Electronics Magazine article “Cramm…
We first met Achronix back in 2004 and have been following them constantly for sixteen years now. We’ve seen the company go from a founder-funded startup developing revolutionary asynchronous FPGAs…
“If the end of Moore’s Law is a wall, the first one to slam into it will be whoever was ahead.” — Me, today Days after we published our “No More Nanometers” article discussing the perils and …
“I learned how to measure before I knew what was size.” – Sofi Tukker, “House Arrest” Let’s start by speaking some truth. Nothing about the “5 nanometer” CMOS process has any real relationshi…
With the COVID-19 situation continuing to evolve, numerous companies in our
industry have been telling their employees to work from home (WFH) lately to
enable “social distancing” to slow the sprea…
Intel announced this week that they have begun shipping the first of their new Agilex FPGAs to early-access customers. This moves us into what we historically think of as the “head-to-head” phase …
Recently, a colleague sent me a note on LinkedIn asking about an article I wrote over a decade ago called “Renaissance FAEs” – celebrating field application engineers (FAEs) working for FPGA …
Here at EE Journal world headquarters, we get a lot of press releases informing us that company A has made a deal with important customer B. Seriously. Many per day. Yawn. You may also notice the n…
In dystopian science fiction, we are taught to fear the technological singularity – the time when artificial super intelligence advances to a point far beyond human intelligence, with a resul…
Moore’s Law said that we could double the number of transistors on an integrated circuit every two years. But there were a lot of variables in that equation. For example, the industry has always as…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that FPGA-based compute acceleration is suddenly a hot topic. And, even from under the rock, you probably got the memo that Intel paid over $16B to …
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been dominating the discussion on AI advancement for the past couple of years. But CNNs have one glaring weakness – a heavy reliance on massive amou…
Intel announced last week that they are acquiring structured ASIC company eASIC into their Programmable Systems Group (PSG). If you haven’t been following along in your major merger primer, Intel P…
Tell a crowd of nerds that software is coming to an end, and you’ll get laughed out of the bar. The very notion that the amount of software and software development in the world will do anything be…
For a number of years, the world’s largest semiconductor company’s primary
marketing slogan was designed simply to remind us they existed. The “Intel
Inside” slogan and sticker told us, “Hey, by th…