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Intel brings a bonanza to ISSCC 2022

The 69th International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), sponsored by IEEE and Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), took place virtually from February 20 to February 28, 2022. The ISSCC is, and has been, the leading global forum ...

Rethinking trade shows; Avid takes a time out

The general thinking in the US is that as Omicron loosens its grip, the pandemic will also recede to become something a recurring seasonal illness like the flu and colds—annoying but not deadly. Eventually, that ...

Nvidia’s Q4 FY22 Results Drive Ahead

Nvidia reported a terrific revenue gain of $7.64 billion for the fourth quarter ending January 30, 2022, which was up 53 percent from a year ago and up 8 percent from the previous quarter. Gaming, ...

Autodesk takes aim at the factory

Once upon a time, the way the world worked in manufacture seemed pretty clear: the big engines of China and nearby smaller countries pumped out low-cost products. Consumers in the west bought whole bunches of ...

Gelsinger’s grand strategy—leave no socket behind

I suspect Pat Gelsinger has thought about what Intel should (and shouldn’t) do since he left in ‘09. He’s had the benefit of being inside for 30 years, and then 12 years on the outside ...

AMDlinx—and now they are one

In October 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, AMD surprised the computer industry by announcing it would acquire FPGA inventor and maker Xilinx for $35 billion in stock. Xilinx was founded one year ...

Dassault announces year end results for 2021

As this is being written, Dassault is spelling out its plans for the future during 3DExperience World 2022. The company says it is poised for a new period of growth as it aligns its major ...

PTC announces Q1 results for its fiscal 2022

PTC reported its first-quarter financial results for its fiscal 2022 and told investors all is going according to plan. At the end of 2021, PTC told investors it was putting its foot down on the ...

Varjo streams VR from AWS

The idea of virtual presence in a mission-critical design review or development process sounds like science fiction. It was. It was until Helsinki-based Varjo brought cloud streaming to its Reality Cloud platform and moved the ...

AMD’s Q4 2021 results

AMD reported record quarterly revenue of $4.8 billion up 49% year-over-year and record full-year revenue of $16.4 billion up 68%. Gross margin expanded and operating income more than doubled from the prior year. “2021 was ...

Intel launches Project Circuit Breaker

Bizz, zap, boing, poof, pop, BANG! “I think we found the back door Chad.” “Cool, let’s go.” All complex (non-biological) systems have them. A secret way to get inside and fix things. But once inside, ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 processor

AMD announced the Fusion project in 2006 after the acquisition of ATI: the integrating of a GPU with the CPU. However, Intel beat AMD to it and in January 2011 introduced the Clarkdale with an ...