During my visit to Mexico City this year for the IEEE Region 9 annual meeting, I had the chance to visit the Memory and Tolerance Museum, whose mission is to increase the understanding of cultural diversity and eradicate hatred and genocide around the world. It was a humbling experience to see exhibits of the horrible […]
Did you know that IEEE is not just an organization of electrical and electronics engineers? We welcome all those who are interested in and want to contribute to our technological mission. As the world’s largest technical professional organization, IEEE has long been composed of engineers, scientists, technologists, practitioners, and entrepreneurs. Members are experts from the […]
U.K.-based AI computer company Graphcore made a significant boost to its computers’ performance without changing much of anything about its specialized AI processor cores. The secret was to use TSMC’s wafer-on-wafer 3D integration technology during manufacture to attach a power-delivery chip to Graphcore’s AI processor. The new combined chip, called Bow, for a district in […]
First released in 2005, the Arduino microcontroller turbocharged the maker movement. While more advanced boards have joined the Arduino line since, the basic Uno microcontroller remains popular. Inexpensive, simple to program, and robust enough for beginners while still having enough capacity to do interesting things for more advanced users, it forms the basis of countless […]