It used to be that a chip engineer would design an integrated circuit by hand drawing a few dozen pages of schematics using standard templates, the resulting patterns X-ACTO knifed out of plastic film. But with transistor density doubling every 18 months, this manual process couldn’t scale and was eventually replaced with a technology called […]
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[TECH] Bio-Techne
[TECH] Bio-Techne: part 1
February 12, 2025
This is the first part of a two-part post. I wanted to better understand the [...]
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[MRVI] Maravai Lifesciences
January 27, 2025
Hi everyone,My friend @LibertyRPF, who writes the eclectic newsletter, Liberty’s Highlights) recently interviewed me. Check [...]
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AppFolio and the business of property management software
January 6, 2025
(Note: Several weeks ago, MBI and I recorded a podcast conversation about AppFolio. You can [...]
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scuttleblurb 2024 content review
December 26, 2024
Happy holidays everyone, This post will kick off an annual tradition where I provide brief [...]
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[SNA – Snap-On] when brand meets distribution
December 12, 2024
Snap-On’s origin coincides with that of the US auto industry. In 1920, an engineer by [...]
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