Earlier this morning Patently Apple posted a report about Apple Vans are out in full force this morning mapping out the streets of Hong Kong. These vans use massive LiDAR sensors on the roof of the vans to capture 360º images. Earlier this year Bloomberg had reported that Apple was in discussions with multiple suppliers of self-driving car sensors known as LiDAR […]

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Since 2018, an almost endless series of attacks broadly known as Spectre has kept Intel and AMD scrambling to develop defenses to mitigate vulnerabilities that allow malware to pluck passwords and other sensitive information directly out of silicon. Now, researchers say they’ve devised a new attack that breaks most—if not all—of those  on-chip defenses. Spectre got its name for […]

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New Zealand is testing wireless power transmission, first mentioned by Nickolas Tesla. The startup company Emrod has developed a wireless transmission methodology: (1) Collimated RF waves using advanced microwave dish technology. (2) Recognizing birds, or humans might intersect the microwave. (3) Utilizing a recantenna, receiving antenna to convert microwaves back to power. Item (2) would […]

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Engineers love to optimize their designs, but that implies that there are models and stimulus to automate the process.  Process engineers have TCAD tools, circuit designers have SPICE for circuit simulation, logic designers have gate-level simulators, RTL designers use logic simulation, but what is there for the system architects of a processor or SoC design? […]

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