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Looking Back on Five Years

by Dick Selwood

During the Christmas break, I took time out from roasting an ox on the open fire, distributing presents to the assembled multitude of staff, chasing foxes across the rolling acres of Selwood Towers and feasting, wassailing and carousing to think about the past year and embedded technology stuff. I managed to overcome the urge and went back to roasting an ox etc, but, now the break is over, it seems worth having another think. Read More

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After software, what's next?

During six-plus decades of adherence to the Turing paradigm, the computer field has reaped the benefits of ever- faster and -denser (and -reliable) hardware. Over the same span of decades, the creation and maintenance of software hasn’t gotten any easier ...

Posted on 01/27/12 at 2:53 PM by CharlieM

Looking Back on Five Years

OK guys (and gals) - what stuff do you think was important in the last five years?

Posted on 01/19/12 at 5:11 AM by Dick Selwood

Tough Times Ahead for AMD

I think you are spot-on with your suggestion that AMD license ARM cores and maybe find synergy with their ATI products. That strategy might actually work.

The x86 architecture is dead.

Licensing x86 cores won't work because they take up far too muc...

Posted on 01/18/12 at 4:24 PM by manfred.bartz

Signals and Swats

Air-motion-only instrument = theremin?

But point taken. Why would people want to wave their hands about to control their phone? And where is the phone when all this hand waving is going on? Controlling the TV by shouting at it - now that's my goal! ...

Posted on 01/18/12 at 6:43 AM by dysonwilkes