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Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 16th

By Dr. Taher Elgamal, Guest Author [SM: Readers have read my interview series with Taher earlier. It is my pleasure to welcome this Security industry thought leader to shed some light on the past, present and future of Security.] It is one of our biggest dilemmas in modern computing: can we trust running our lives

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 14)

Posted on Sunday, Sep 2nd

Here we discuss the current market environment, the competitive landscape with a focus on what current chips are being displaced by the multicore chips. SM: I read in the slides you sent me that you are expecting a TAM (Total Available Market) of $54 billion, is this based on the two markets we discussed –

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 9)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 28th

I am curious how Anant addresses the intellectual property strategy for Tilera. In the back of my mind is the story of Tessera, a company that has had fundamental innovations in chip scale packaging, and today every single manufacturer of miniaturized consumer devices violate their patent, and pay them royalties. Some of the innovations that

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India’s Hardware Prospects

Posted on Monday, Aug 8th

Hardware System design or manufacturing has never been India’s sweet-spot. However, as the country becomes a major consumer of electronics systems, especially computers, consumer electronics and cellular handsets, it makes more and more sense to do more hardware design and manufacturing locally. EETimes reports on a couple of acquisitions: PCB manufacturer Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik

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