Let’s build a chip!
Recently, it seems to have become common wisdom that every tech company is going to build its own semiconductors for their hardware needs. Companies seem to be building chips for […]
Category Archives: Components
Cryptoasset Primer 5: What are cryptoassets?
This is part 5 in our basic series on crypto assets. The series begins here and you can read part 4 here. In this post we want to take a […]
A Tale of Three Cities
We recently helped a client with a project choosing a supplier. This raised some interesting management and strategy questions, so we thought a heavily anonymized post might be interesting here. […]
Cryptoasset Mining & The Magic of Silicon
Over the weekend, a crypto project called Sia posted about their work in designing their own chip for crypto mining. It’s a long post, with some incredible insight. We wanted […]
Hardware is not just hard, it is Expensive
Lately, it has become commonplace in the tech blogosphere to say that “Hardware is Hard“. There are a few reasons for the sudden prominence of this strand of commentary. Several […]
Some Interesting Thoughts on the Economics of 3D Printing
I have gone dark for a while. Apologies for that, but I have several posts in the works, coming soon. In the meantime, I would like to point you to […]
CES 2016 – Stalemate for Wireless charging
I mentioned at the outset that I was interested in studying wireless charging at the show. I came away disappointed. The week before the show, a friend at a Chinese […]
