“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” – Mark Twain

When we last checked up on GreenWaves, the French company had just launched its very first chip, the GAP8 processor. They’ve kept busy in the intervening two years by working on its successor, the GAP9. And it’s a big update. 

The concept is still the same. Build a low-cost, low-power processor for … Read More → "GAP9 for ML at the Edge"

“Set goals but be flexible.” — Clemantine Wamariya

How flexible is flexible? Marketing people describe their products as “robust and flexible.” Then there are flexible pricing models, flexible shipment schedules, flexible deployments, and flexible morals. 

But what if the processor, memory, and the rest of circuitry were all literally flexible – what if they could fold, crease, and bend around corners? 

It seems like the perfect solution for tightly packed consumer items like smartphones, cameras, tablets, laptops, and … Read More → "Alternate Roads to Flexible Electronics"

“Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.” – Brie Larson

The dictionary defines haptics as “the use of technology that stimulates the senses of touch and motion, especially… the sensations that would be felt by a user interacting directly with physical objects.” Me, I think of it as the buzzing from my cellphone. 

A vibrating phone or pager was probably everyone’s first introduction to haptics, and it’s still the most common usage. But there’s a lot more you can … Read More → "Hap, Hap, Haptics 101"