How Much Programmability?
March 2, 2020 | Tommy Mullane
Designers prefer to design in flexibility. The reasons are legion and mostly obvious: you may not know today how a chip will be used tomorrow...
March 2, 2020 | Tommy Mullane
Designers prefer to design in flexibility. The reasons are legion and mostly obvious: you may not know today how a chip will be used tomorrow...
January 7, 2019 | Edel Griffith
IoT Breakthrough has just announced that Adesto Technologies is the winner of the “M2M Embedded Hardware Company of the Year” award 2019. IoT Breakthrough has...
December 19, 2018 | Edel Griffith
Puppies are for life, but ASICs really can be just for Christmas As Christmas approaches, thoughts naturally turn towards gifts for our friends and loved...
November 6, 2018 | Edel Griffith
Developing for the Internet of Things (IoT) is difficult. When you’re designing an IoT edge device, there are usually tough constraints on cost, size and...
October 3, 2018 | Tony Reilly
S3 Semiconductors attended the recent Industry Space Days (ISD) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The 2-day space industry gathering which ran from the 11th to the...
September 21, 2018 | Edel Griffith
CMOS RF/mmWave Technologies Enable the Transformation of IoT Satellite Communications S3semi are excited to be present at the upcoming European Microwave Week 2018 conference and...
September 19, 2018 | Edel Griffith
E-18: The Electronics and Robotics Industry in Denmark S3 Semiconductors attended the recent E-18 show in Odense, Denmark. The 3-day electronics fair which ran from...
September 18, 2018 | Edel Griffith
Engineering, like life, is all about compromises. You might want that new sports car, but how do you justify the cost? And does it have...
August 27, 2018 | Darren Hobbs
You probably already know that your iPhone is several thousand – even million – times more powerful than NASA’s Apollo mission computers, but did you...
August 21, 2018 | Edel Griffith
As the Internet of Things takes shape, companies are realizing that not everything can, or should be moved to the cloud. For many industrial applications,...
August 6, 2018 | Tommy Mullane
One widely reported analysis claims that Bitcoin consumes more than 40 Terawatt hours per year. That is more energy than we here in Ireland consume...
July 24, 2018 | Edel Griffith
It used to be so simple. If you were designing an industrial system or product, you knew where you stood. You chose well-proven technologies, developed...
July 10, 2018 | Edel Griffith
It’s a bit of jargon that’s maybe over-used, but if you’re an electronics designer you need to be thinking about so-called ‘disruptive’ technologies. Why? Well,...
April 11, 2018 | Cormac OSullivan
S3 Semiconductors attended this years’ Satellite Show in Washington DC from March 12th to 15th. Our RF Technology lead, Cormac O’Sullivan took some key insights from the show....
March 15, 2018 | Edel Griffith
Darren Hobbs from S3 Semiconductors was delighted to meet up with Alix Paultre at Embedded World 2018 and discuss S3 Semiconductors mixed-signal custom chip business and...
December 17, 2017 | Edel Griffith
Oil and Gas Industry: custom silicon delivers a better smart valve while cutting costs by 80% Recently, S3 Semiconductors worked with a highly respected supplier...
October 10, 2017 | Edel Griffith
The world’s seemingly insatiable demand for ever-thinner mobile phones and ever-faster computers is driving a relentless reduction in silicon feature size. While this trend toward...
August 22, 2017 | John O'Brien
I’m very proud to be part of a truly great, world-class team taking S3 Semiconductors into its next chapter. Over the years, S3 Group has...
July 27, 2017 | Dermot Barry
As the semiconductor industry is consolidated each year through mergers and acquisitions, the remaining vendors are growing larger and larger, and few companies remain capable...
July 26, 2017 | Edel Griffith
The Internet of things is focused on the ability to be able to connect to the physical world through various types of sensors and actuators...
May 27, 2017 | Darren Hobbs
S3 Semiconductors was at the Sensors and Test show held at the Messe Nuremberg, in May. As such we have included here some interesting observations...