May 9, 2012, All About the Cloud Conference, San Francisco—Stephen Gold from IBM described next generation computers based upon recently demonstrated capabilities, such as those in the Watson system. The new systems will be instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent and will enable new ways to use data. Today, most data is unstructured. Users need to take [...]
May 9, 2012, All About The Cloud Conference, San Francisco—William McNee from Saugatuck Technology presented the key trends in cloud adoption. The cloud is no longer a passing fad, but an inevitability. Already there is high awareness within the IT community, and had a high adoption among the trendsetters. The early adopters are looking for [...]
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Chenming Hu from UC Berkeley talked bout the revolutionary scope of multi-gate transistors. He addressed the challenges of cost, speed, and power in the next generation of devices. The biggest issue for many designs is to reduce all facets of power consumption. Scaling is at the heart [...]
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Roawen Chen from Marvell Semiconductor moderated a panel on extending the life of CMOS. Panel members included Jim Aralis from Microsemi, Paul Boudre from Soitec, Shung Chieh from Aptina Imaging, Matt Crowley from Tabula, and Pushkar Ranade from SuVolta. Chen noted that the topic has been around [...]
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, Ca—Joel Hartmann from ST Microelectronics talked about the need for SOI technologies. This established technology will enable innovation and influence the ecosystem in mobile, data, and consumer applications. As media converge ; TV, STB, cloud, multi-screen, apps, etc. the primary issue is power. The majority of devices [...]
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Subramanian Iyer from IBM looked the issues to “Keeping Moore’s Law Alive” in his presentation at the Computer History Museum, a fitting place for a technology forecast. From an IDM perspective, the primary questions are: is there a problem, what to do about scaling, and what are [...]
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Subramani Kengeri from Global Foundries acknowledged a gap between efforts and capabilities in the lab versus those in the fab. To continue working on Moore’s law requires an SOC view and more collaboration. Currently, four areas are driving improvements in silicon; interconnect, lithography, packaging, and silicon technology [...]
NAB, Las Vegas—We interviewed Render Rocket about their business and technology. Their claim to fame is a scalable 3-D render engine that operates in the cloud. The mission control module reserves and monitors time on the server(s) and enables cross-market use. The tools are being driven by the ongoing cost cutting and reductions in capital [...]
NAB, Las Vegas—We talked with 3ality Technica about rigs and other equipment.3ality Digital acquired (bought) the company Element Technica. Now they are one single company, called 3ality Technica, which merges the complementary expertise of both companies. 3ality Digital created 3D rigs, using a tool kit which included algorithms and image processing technology to solve problems, [...]
NAB, Las Vegas—We spoke with CentralParQ, a Dutch company about their workflow framework. Their solution includes a combination of hardware and software for managing and tracking assets from ingest through production. Part of their offering is a cloud-based set of modules that optimize metadata and other information. The system can track physical media through the [...]
