In England in 1969, what’s now known as British Telecom (BT) didn’t exist. In those days of yore, UK telecommunications (including telephones, exchanges, wiring, and equipment) were operated by the Post Office Telecommunications Department, which was part of the General Post Office (GPO).

The unabridged story of how the Post Office ended up in charge of telephones is wonderfully Victorian and slightly bonkers. To cut a long story short (which is opposite to the way I usually like to do things), this all came about because telephones were initially treated as a form of “electrical telegraph.” … Read More → "Can You Hear Me Now (With My 21st Century Studio-Quality MEMS Microphone)?"

We live in exciting times with respect to AI and the devices used to implement inferencing at the edge, where the “internet rubber” meets the “real-world road,” as it were.

It reminds me of those distant days in the 1970s when we were all “feeling our way” with 8-bit microprocessors. I’m thinking of devices like the Intel 8008 (1972), Intel 8080 (1974), Motorola 6800 (1974), MOS Technology 6502 (1975), Zilog Z80 (1976), and Motorola 6809 (1978).

If I might wax eloquent for a moment, life in those days was tremendously exciting for microprocessor mavens. Nothing was standardized, and every … Read More → "Analog Neuromorphic Processors for ASICs/SoCs Offer Microwatt Edge AI"