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Kickstarting chip design: The Raspberry Pi effect
On 27th October 2012 Adapteva Inc successfully raised almost $900,000 via the Kickstarter crowd funding website. It’s not the largest amount ever raised on Kickstarter, nor is it the most over-subscribed offering. What makes it unusual is being the first such funding success by a chip design company …
Read moreWho ate my battery?
The Ericsson T95 launched in 2001. It had a 720 mAh Li-Ion battery, a standby time of 300 hours and a talk time of 11 hours. A decade later the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X10 mini was launched. It has a 910 mAh Li-polymer battery, and using 3G, a standby time of approximately 285 hours and a talk time of approximately 3.5 hours with 3G …
Read moreThe rise of the bare-board computer
Bare-board computers are not new – they’ve existed almost as long as microprocessors and until recently were a geek specialism and fairly expensive. But things are changing. Hobbyists have been using Arduino, based on the 8-bit AVR microcontroller from Atmel for some time …
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