I tell you, I’m starting to feel like I’m riding the crest of the wave when it comes to AI in all its multifaceted glory. Back in the 2010s, I thought it was astonishing that you could show an AI images of cats, dogs, chickens, and penguins, and it could tell these little rascals apart. I know that may seem “old hat” now, but as recently as … Read More → "EnCharge Me Up! 200 AI TOPS at Only ~8 Watts"
If you’re involved in developing embedded systems, YOU NEED TO READ THIS. I’m sure that, like me, you’ve been exposed to a lot of AI-powered design tools over the past couple of years. Suffice it to say that the one I’m poised to tell you about just blew my socks off (don’t worry, I’ll retrieve them later).
I’m so excited … Read More → "Meet the Embedder AI Firmware Engineer"
As usual, my mind is buzzing with hitherto unthought thoughts. The topic du jour is emotion-aware conversational AI that combines speech recognition with paralinguistic understanding. Ha! I thought that would get your attention and give your excitement juices a bit of a stir.
It’s not so long ago that the ability to communicate with tools like smart assistants and say things like “Alexa, turn on the … Read More → "Meet the AI That Doesn’t Just Hear What You Say—It Hears What You Mean!"
I never used to think about power when I was younger. Actually, there are many things I didn’t think about when I was younger (and I’m getting even better at not thinking about things as I grow older), but power was certainly around the top of the list. When I was a kid in the UK circa the 1960s, most things (televisions, radios) plugged into the wall. … Read More → "Sustainable Power for an Increasingly Intelligent World"
It’s funny how casually we use the word “connectivity” these days, as though it’s always been part of the conversation. However, speaking as someone who was a small (but perfectly formed) lad in the 1960s, I can assure you that it most certainly wasn’t.
Back then, things didn’t “connect” in the way we think of today—they were simply connected. Our … Read More → "The Day “No Signal” Died: 5G Meets Satellites"
When I was 10 years old, my parents decided I was old enough and responsible enough to catch the bus to school (silly parents). This was in England in the 1960s. We didn’t have dedicated school buses (unlike the bodacious yellow beauties in America); instead, we used standard buses with regular passengers and school kids all jumbled together.
I rode with my friend Jeremy Douglas, who lived … Read More → "High-Performance Ultra-Low-Power AI MCUs Running at Only 0.3V (Eeek!)"
