I remember “ye olden days” when we (humans) designed electronic products by hand—conceiving circuits, selecting components, drawing schematics, laying out printed circuit boards (PCBs)… Can you imagine instead just telling an AI, “Make me a [your product here] for consumer use,” and it actually does it? Well, that day has arrived.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll doubtless say it … Read More → "Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux"
In the context of programming, the term “obfuscation” is typically taken to mean “deliberately making source code hard to read or understand while keeping it functionally correct.” The reason I used the “typically” qualifier is that I’ve just been exposed to the concept of obfuscation at the machine code level. Now my head hurts.
Since we’re already talking obfuscation, I feel … Read More → "From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation"
We live in exciting times. Sometimes I’m unsure just how much more excitement I can take. I can imagine one day talking to my grandchildren, saying something like, “I remember the days before AI,” and hearing them gasp in astonishment and disbelief.
I know what you’re thinking. When you first ran your orbs over the title of this column, I could … Read More → "Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge?"
In which we learn about a maverick founder’s RISC-V crusade to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience.
I’ve known Jonah McLeod for more years than I care to remember. In fact, I’ve known him for so long that I no longer recall … Read More → "Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take"
I’ve said it before, and I’ll doubtless say it again—I’m constantly amazed by how the metaphysical theme of the “interrelatedness of all things” that permeates the Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams manages to manifest itself in my own humble journey through the cosmos.
For example, just a few weeks ago (at the time of this writing), I was … Read More → "Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House?"
I’m having “one of those days.” During a recent chat with someone who has a lot to answer for, I was informed that IREE is the execution layer for MILR and that I can think of MILR as a newer version of LLVM. Now I know what I sound like when I’m talking to my family and friends. Also, my head hurts.
Read More → "Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge"
