Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Thursday his company will continue to bet on selling high-end custom hardware for its software products, even amidst a growing trend toward roomfuls of cheap, generic ...

From the earliest days of my career, when designing chips, I have always navigated the interface between hardware and software for semiconductor design in my roles. My initial chip designs included ...

In today’s semiconductor landscape, scale is becoming a bigger battleground—not only for chipmakers, but increasingly for hyperscalers, cloud giants, and other systems companies, too. They're all ...

Apple spends a lot of time talking up its secret sauce: that combination of hardware, software, and services that allow it to make what it believes are the best technology products on the planet. And, ...

Kent Helfrich is Chief Technology Officer and President of GM Ventures, and VP of Global R&D at General Motors. Since the rise of mass-produced automobiles, new technologies and performance features ...

Emerson Electric's strategic M&A has shifted its portfolio from hardware to higher-growth, higher-margin software, now comprising 31% of revenue. Our analysis shows Emerson's software segment enjoys ...

The Apple TV set-top box doesn't have giant market penetration in a world flush with cheaper alternatives. But like the iPad, the hardware practically demonstrates how Apple goes above and beyond in ...

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order ...

Moore's Law continues to drive chip complexity and performance to new highs, while stressing and periodically “breaking” existing design flows. Fortunately for consumers of electronic design ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...