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Semiconductors: US CHIPS Act for Expanding Domestic Chip Production

By Dick Weisinger

On July 19th, the Senate voted 64-34 for bipartisan support of the US CHIPS act, a bill designed to pump $54 billion into the US semiconductor development. Competition from China is a major driver for support of the package. The…

BLOOM: The Open-Source Alternative to GPT-3-like Large Language Models

By Dick Weisinger

OpenAI’s GPT-3 may have been first, or at least first to generate a widespread ‘wow’ from people once they saw what AI Large learning Models can do. Since then there have been competitors, like Google’s LaMDA, China’s Wu Dao 2.0,…

Technology: Talk Like a Tech Titan Day

By Dick Weisinger

Talk like a Pirate Day is September 19th. Maybe we need to celebrate something similar with the language of tech: Talk Like a Tech Titan day. Researchers have studied the language used by the top 100 richest tech-world people to…

Semiconductors: Chip Cycle Boom and Bust Timings Accelerate

By Dick Weisinger

For the last year and one half, we’ve heard about the computer chip shortage and how it is affecting the manufacture of everything from automobiles to appliances. A move towards embedding chips into a huge variety of consumer and industrial…

5G Slicing: An Opportunity for New Vertical Industries

By Dick Weisinger

50 billion IoT devices are expected to be deployed by 2030, according to Statista. The diversity in the many types of devices and applications that the devices support make the job of setting up networks to support a variety of…