CES is a big, spectacular media event that draws huge crowds, and companies spend a lot of money to give this show a “Hollywood” look. There were many sales pitches, product demonstrations , business meetings, and cocktail parties. This years’ show was no exception. Celebrities showed up to plug their products in grand style, and…
January 2013 – Another perennial press event that is co-located with most of the world wide trade shows is Showstoppers. This years event was once again very crowded and busy, and allowed for good access to some cool tech that was being launched. Some of the highlights that we had a chance to see included…
January 2013 – One of the first co-located press events each year at CES is Pepcom. This year’s event was once again, very well attended, organized and busy. Held a the MGM Grand, the company featured uniform table and booth sizes organized in what seemed like an open pattern. The reality was, several of the…
January 2013 – This years CES event was the first one to incorporate the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) expo as part of the show. Held in the LVH conference center adjacent to the main LVCC the expo replaced the historic “international pavilion” booths. The camera area was the most crowded at the show day’s 1…
January 2013, At the Pepcom Digital Experience at CES 2013, the plethora of new Consumer Electronic (CE) devices will bring a new round of joys and headaches to the IT world, as these devices move and share operation between home and work. Looking from the IT perspective the two major common themes are (1) IPV6…
December 2012 – San Francisco, CA – This year the International Electron Device Meeting kicked off with a short course on Circuit and Technology Interaction. Historically, this was held as several sessions in the conference focusing on the new devices for memories, logic and analog operation. With the overall shift to FDSOI and FinFET style…
On Saturday, September 1,2012, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren was recognized for an award by the IEEE-USA for her distinguished Public Service. The event was hosting at Marvell Semiconductor Headquarters in Santa Clara. Zoe Lofgren has been a dedicated supporter of technology and Innovation, a tireless champion for engineers and high-tech professionals for almost twenty years. As…
November 2012 – In an invited keynote at the Server Design Summit, industry icon Andy Bechtolsheim, now of Arista Networks, gave a presentation on the direction and challenges involved with next generation data center networks. The performance improvements for CPU has gone up 64x the pas 12 years, while network bandwidth and performance has only…
November 2012 – At the 2012 Server Design Summit, they held a panel on future directions for Servers amid the current industry discussion about power efficiency, throughput and performance. The panel was moderated by Sergis Mushell of Gartner and featured Ed Gasiorowski of Applied Micro, Jeff Underhill of ARM, David Borland of Calxeda, Devid Kassel…