Modern semiconductor technologies enable manufacturers to pack more and more functions and memory into a single silicon die. While steadily advancing microintegration based on Moore’s Law just a few ...

An infinite number of inventions is waiting to happen. It’s often hard to figure out why one idea succeeds and another falls by the wayside. Many factors can impact success, ranging from the quality ...

Technically, an open-source ecosystem is “open” in that anyone may contribute to and draw upon the work of an entire community of developers. Interestingly, open source has come to mean that the doors ...

Gaps are widening in the prototyping of large, complex chips because the speed and capacity of the FPGA is not keeping pace with rapid rollout pace of advanced ASICs. This is a new twist for a ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Lucid Motors’ dream of building its first all-electric car is one step closer to becoming reality. The startup has announced that a beta engineering prototype of the Air luxury EV has performed its ...

I'm currently a successful software engineer. Over the last decade or so, I've met dozens of people who have transitioned into the computer field, because it was their passion and their hobby. And, of ...

A new process used to update the Chevrolet Malibu for the 2014 model sounds more like the plot of a sci-fi movie than anything tied to designing cars. To refresh the Malibu’s interior and exterior, ...

Designed to deter home intruders, permanently mounted window bars can also trap residents during a fire — a risk that has led to fatal tragedies. For King, the issue is personal. Members of his own ...