Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by Steve Leibson, a marketing consultant specializing in lead generation and content creation for high-tech companies, former VP of Content for Reed Business, and former Editor in Chief of EDN. See my consulting Web site at www.sleibson.com and my history site at www.hp9825.com. You can email me at steven.leibson followed by the magic email symbol @ followed by att.net. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298.html?nid=3403 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:30:14 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1850050385.html?nid=3403 Yesterday, I moderated a panel on green chip design in Newport Beach at the 7th International SOC Conference. Chances are you didn’t see or h... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1590050359.html?nid=3403 A few weeks back, I wrote about my positive experience with in-flight WiFi using the Gogo service on American Airlines. Want to try it yourself? Fo... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/640050264.html?nid=3403 The title for this blog is “borrowed” from a Mark Twain story and the content is borrowed—once more—from my favorite Oz vid... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/440050244.html?nid=3403 After 40 years of working on phase-change memory (PCM), researchers announced...another incremental step towards creating devices that can compete ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1710050171.html?nid=3403 I’ve just started to write a blog for AgigA Tech, a maker of non-volatile memory subsystems for embedded systems and servers. Today, I posted... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/990050099.html?nid=3403 You may be aware that a Northwest Airlines commercial flight overflew its destination, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, by 150 miles l... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/890050089.html?nid=3403 I'm chairing a panel on Green Chip design at the 7th International SOC Conference next week. What would you ask the panelists about green ASIC/FPGA... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1780049978.html?nid=3403 The IEEE Consultants Network of Silicon Valley is holding the second of three 3-hour Webinars on the topic of successful selling as a business cons... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/840049884.html?nid=3403 Nine years ago, on August 28, 2000, after visiting the Intel Developers Forum (IDF), I published these words in the Microprocessor Report about wha... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/500049850.html?nid=3403 Do you design ASICs or SOCs? Do you work on a team that designs ASICs or SOCs? Do you manage a team that designs ASICs or SOCs? ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/210049821.html?nid=3403 There seem to be a lot of people interested in SSDs reading this blog, so I’m letting you know about an upcoming SSD seminar series put on fo... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1130049713.html?nid=3403 EDAC, the EDA Consortium, is sponsoring a mixer this week for people in EDA. It’s going down at the Faultline microbrewery in Sunnyvale. Here... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/290049629.html?nid=3403 NASA demonstrated pinpoint perfection of its new lunar-crashing technology early this morning by first crashing a Centaur final stage booster into ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1510049551.html?nid=3403 OK, fellow SF buffs. Popular Mechanics has ranked the 10 most prophetic SF films of all time. In reverse order, they are: #10. 2001: A Spa... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1410049541.html?nid=3403 Even though it’s an obvious technological slam dunk, the fusion of FPGA fabrics with microprocessor architectures on one slab of silicon has ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1150049515.html?nid=3403 Today’s email brings with it an announcement from an Austin fabless chipmaker named Tekmos. The announcement is for the availability of 80C18... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/890049489.html?nid=3403 The on-chip memories that get most of the attention are read/write memories such as SRAM, DRAM, Flash, and MRAM (which I just covered in my previou... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/650049465.html?nid=3403 Many startup companies plus established memory vendors including IBM have invested heavily in developing magnetic RAM process technologies that are... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/330049433.html?nid=3403 Last week, I listened to a Webinar by Synopsys’ Jay Chiang on the DesignWare minPower IP components that the company introduced at this year&... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/680049268.html?nid=3403 My first real sales training came from John (ruff and gruff) Huff. John was already an institution at EDN when I joined. He sold ad space for EDN&m... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/10049201.html?nid=3403 http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1850049185.html?nid=3403 I’m at the Intel Developer Conference today in San Francisco. Just before lunch, I sat in on a demo of Arium’s latest SourcePoint debug... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/790049079.html?nid=3403 As part of my continuing job search, I attended an unusual panel session held by the Commonwealth Club of California last week. I’ve already ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/780049078.html?nid=3403 As part of my continuing job search, I attended an unusual panel session held by the Commonwealth Club of California last week. I’ve already ... http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/740049074.html?nid=3403 As part of my continuing job search, I attended an unusual panel session held by the Commonwealth Club of California last week. I blogged one of th...