November 2012 – At the 2012 Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference held at UC Berkeley, the theme was “Engineering Innovation by Design”. Held in conjunction with the 5th annual Global Entrepreneurs Week, the half day event discussed a number of drivers of change in innovation in engineering. The event opened with an introduction to…
October 2012 – At the AES Convention in San Francisco we had a chance to swing by MXL and Sony microphones and AKG (part of the Harman group) headphones. MXL Microphones – MXL had a number of their professional studo microphone, many of which were released earlier this year at NAB. The new microphone for…
October 2012 – At the 133rd AES Convention in San Francisco, they held a multi-day track program on gaming audio. One of the recurring themes and topics was the incorporation of spatial sound. Just like 3D has brought a deeper level of immersion into the graphics of the video games, surround sound and spatial audio…
October 2012 – At the Renesas Devcon 2012, we met with Amrit Vivekanand, Ritesh Tyagi, and Nelson Quintana regarding the MCU segmentation, features and support offering that is targeted at the automotive marketplace. Renesas holds the #1 position in the world on traditional automotive MCU products. By traditional automotive that means 125oC operating temperature, long…
October 2012 – At the Renesas Devcon in Anaheim, CA this year, we had a briefing on the analog and power management products from Tad Keeley and Tsutomu Aoki. These discussions prefaced the many sessions on batteries and power management at the event. Based on the expertise in power devices including IGBTs, SiC and GaN…
October 2012 – On chipdesign day at the ARM Techcon in Santa Clara, a joint session between Cadence and IBM presented the results of new ARM IP at the 14nm node. The SOI process developed by IBM is an advanced FinFET flow that incorporated an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, SRAM memory blocks and a number of…
October 2012 – At the Linley networking and processor event, we had a chance to meet with Micron Technologies and discuss their high performance Networking DRAM solutions. These memories feature a reduced latency for fast random access, based on using a different internal design than from standard DRAM. The turnaround time on a data access…
October 2012 – The Consumer Electronics Association honored their members with their annual Hall of Fame Dinner held in San Francisco. The award winners represent the diversity of the industry and the association. These inductees ranged from fundamental technology innovation to industry associations founders to those in the retail channel. This range helps the CEA…
October 2012 – At the San Francisco Oracle Open World Conference, CEO Larry Ellison pontificated about the new hardware architecture using the latest Sparc64 cores for supporting big memory configurations. The new hardware can support up to 32TB of DRAM in an SMP architecture, and as a result, they have redesigned the database to support…
October 2012 – In San Francisco at the Oracle Open World Conference Fujitsu had a press conference following thier keynote to announce their new Sparc processor. The next generation processor brings an architecture that is targeting large memory configuration designs. Using a traditional DDR3 interface, the device is pushing the configuration up to 512GB/core =…