Well, you made it to February. Congratulations! This is the leap month of a leap year. If you’re following the news, Kathy Ireland calendars from 1996 are hot eBay items because the dates and days of the week are the same as for 2024, so you can use ‘em again this year. Meanwhile, in more…
On October 3, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel’s plan to spin out the company’s Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) – the group that was once known as independent FPGA maker Altera – into an independently operated company. Gelsinger’s explanation for why Intel is spinning PSG back out into an independent company is that he’s unlocking shareholder…
During its recent quarterly financial update on July 28, Intel announced that it was winding down its Optane Persistent Memory business using what amounts to a footnote in its earnings report. (See “Optane, We Hardly Knew Yeh.”) The writing had been on the wall. There was one fab making production Optane chips based in Lehi,…
A working engineer posted this question, which appeared in my LinkedIn status stream earlier this year: “I want to set up a home electronics test bench for maker projects. I would like a scope (perhaps with logic analyzer), waveform gen, power supply, volt/amp meter. My interests are high fidelity audio, and Arduino/RPi type projects. I…