Inside the machine.

Consumer electronics companies have recently taken an interest in machine learning in a consolidated effort to provide new and compelling user experiences for mobile devices.

For the win.

Confession: I get really excited about hardware. I really go all out, mini-fist pump and everything.

The IP licensing business model. A love story.

Some months ago my colleague Rys Sommefeldt wrote an article offering his (deeply) technical perspective on how a chip gets made, from R&D to manufacturing. While his bildungsroman production covers a lot of the engineering details behind silicon production, it is light on the business side of things; and that is a good thing because […]

When SoC met IP.

In this article I’d like to address a common misconception that I often see reprinted in many articles. When presenting the relationship between IP vendors and chip makers, an image of fierce competition is repeatedly (and wrongfully) painted in the media.

Ask me everything.

Two weeks ago, I ventured yet again into the crazy realm of reddit to host my first AMA on /r/hardware. There were some good questions overall and hopefully my answers lived up to expectations.

Maker Fairy.

I had absolutely no expectations when I landed in San Francisco for my first Maker Faire event. I’ve attended self-proclaimed cool trade shows in the past (I’m looking at you, GDC) but nothing prepared me for the geek-fest that was the 2015 edition of Maker Faire Bay Area.