It’s funny how casually we use the word “connectivity” these days, as though it’s always been part of the conversation. However, speaking as someone who was a small (but perfectly formed) lad in the 1960s, I can assure you that it most certainly wasn’t.
Back then, things didn’t “connect” in the way we think of today—they were simply connected. Our … Read More → "The Day “No Signal” Died: 5G Meets Satellites"
When I was 10 years old, my parents decided I was old enough and responsible enough to catch the bus to school (silly parents). This was in England in the 1960s. We didn’t have dedicated school buses (unlike the bodacious yellow beauties in America); instead, we used standard buses with regular passengers and school kids all jumbled together.
I rode with my friend Jeremy Douglas, who lived … Read More → "High-Performance Ultra-Low-Power AI MCUs Running at Only 0.3V (Eeek!)"
I really wish I could have attended this year’s Chiplet Summit, which took place from February 17 to February 19, 2026. This auspicious event was held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. I know this facility well—it’s where I met my first telepresence robot—but that’s a story for another day.
As you can see from the Read More → "When AI Meets Multi-Die (and Neither Lets Go)"
Once again, my world has been turned upside down. Until recently, I’ve been gasping in awe at the myriad “you won’t believe your eyes” numbers flaunted by proponents of the latest and greatest GPUs, like Nvidia’s H200, which boasts nearly four petaflops of AI compute… at least, on paper. So, you can only imagine my surprise to discover that these high-end GPUs can be outperformed by … Read More → "FPGAs Beating GPUs at LLM Inference: Say What?!?"
My podcast guest this week is Ferric CEO Noah Sturcken. Noah and I discuss how Ferric’s innovations—specifically their ferromagnetic materials and on-chip power converters—are addressing the critical power, efficiency, and integration hurdles facing today’s AI processors. We also explore how IVRs enable higher instantaneous power delivery, simplify board design, and reshape processor architecture, and where Noah sees Ferric headed in the future. </ … Read More → "Powering AI: Ferric’s IVR Revolution for High‑Performance Processors"
There are many ways to categorize engineers—to “slice and dice” them, if you will. I’m speaking figuratively, of course (we don’t want anyone to get any unfortunate ideas…especially since… the incident). Just sticking to the electronics realm, we have analog and digital, hardware and software, those who simulate and those who solder, those who document and those who don’t—and the French.
… Read More → "Verification Engineers Are Poised to Become Verification Scientists"
