Zinn: Your supervisor wants you to be unethical - Video
October 20, 2016A well-known bank recently found itself in hot water when it was reported that it was conducting unethical business. In some cases, supervisors were telling their subordinates that they need to contin
AMD energizes embedded graphics applications - Other
October 17, 2016AMD recently put a stake in the ground with respect to its graphics capabilities. Perfectly suited for traditional gaming applications, these cards ca...
Zinn: ZinnStarter, the Zinn version of Kickstarter - Video
October 07, 2016Most people are familiar with Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform that helps Makers get their projects off the ground. Ray Zinn, the longtime CEO of Micrel, and our weekly guest, started his own ve
Zinn: Maintaining a healthy work-life balance - Video
September 30, 2016Everybody knows the workaholic. In fact, you may be one yourself. Work weeks are also a cultural thing, as 50- to 60-hour weeks are norm in Silicon Valley or Japan, but not so much in Europe. I asked
Zinn: Are you too old to work? - Video
September 23, 2016We can cite many examples of when people should have stepped down from their positions earlier than they did, simply because age had caught up to them. In our weekly discussion, Ray Zinn and I discuss
Monetize your data storage - Other
September 19, 2016Storage is the boring, back-end part of your system. It's a necessary evil. Or is it? Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. In fact,...
Zinn: Public companies are falling by the wayside - Video
September 16, 2016The number of public companies has fallen by more than 50% over the past 20 years. That’s a scary statistic, or is it. I posed that question to Ray Zinn, who stood at the helm of one of those public c
Know what to ask (and answer) when moving your appliance to the cloud - Other
September 12, 2016Everything is connected to the cloud these days, or at least that's how it seems. Is now the right time to connect your appliance to the cloud? I'm af...
Zinn: The US as the world's peacekeeper - Video
September 08, 2016For as long as I can remember, the United States has arguably served the role as the world’s peacekeeper. Recently, there has been much debate as to whether the U.S. should remain in that role. For be
Zinn: China is eating our (electronics) lunch - Video
September 01, 2016For some time now, our semiconductor and electronics industry has been losing out to China, or at least that’s the perception. The other perception is that the quality coming from the Chinese manufact
First stop for automotive design is the embedded lab - Other
August 29, 2016It's truly amazing how the focus of the automobile, at least from my jaded viewpoint, has made a complete turn from the mechanical engineers of Detroi...
Zinn: Reliance on a mobile device can be a scary addiction - Video
August 25, 2016Many of today’s CEO are considerably older than many of their employees. Is it different to relate to the younger generation? Particularly with the handsets that seem to be permanently attached to the
Zinn: Is consolidation in our industry a good thing? - Video
August 19, 2016In this week’s regular segment with Ray Zinn, the former longtime CEO of Micrel, we talked about consolidation in our industry. It’s a phenomenon that seems to be running rampant of late. I asked Ray
Zinn: How do you fire someone - Video
August 11, 2016Most of us have encountered this situation, especially those of us that are a little longer in the tooth—having to fire or lay off someone, or worse, being on the opposite end of that discussion. In m
Zinn: When you should lie - Video
August 04, 2016Ray Zinn, as the former longtime CEO of Micrel, tells the truth. At least that’s what he says, and frankly, I tend to believe him. But I asked him whether there is a right time to lie. And clearly we’
Get your pizza delivered by drone - Other
July 29, 2016Imagine ordering a pizza or a prescription form your pharmacy, and it gets delivered in a manner of minutes. But the delivery "person" is a drone rath...
Zinn: you need to own a fab - Video
July 28, 2016Ray Zinn, as the former longtime CEO of Micrel, is a big believer in owning a fab as a semiconductor company, as opposed to being fabless, which is the new trend. Part of the reason has to do with sec
Latest ADLink panel computer is aimed at medical applications - Other
July 22, 2016ADLink Technology is making a serious push into the medical domain with the release of its MLC 5 Series medical panel computer. Designed around a fift...
Zinn: conferences/tradeshows are a boondoggle - Video
July 21, 2016There are lots of technical conferences and tradeshows in the embedded electronics arena. Some are local, some are distant, with many outside the U.S. My question for Ray Zinn, the former longtime CEO
Zinn on the broken education system - Video
July 14, 2016Pre-college education differs greatly in the U.S., depending on where you live and how much you’re willing to pay. By the same token, college education also varies greatly, again by how much you’re wi