Semiconductor Pulse: Weekly Chip News
Three verified chip-industry stories each week, with why each one matters for your ECE career. Sources linked.
Each week we pick three stories from the semiconductor industry, link the original sources, and explain in a few lines why each one matters for an ECE student planning a career in chips.
This season
- Week 1 (Foundations): Why Computers Count in Binary, from Mon, 5 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #2: Half Adder on Wed, 7 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 2 (Foundations): Logic Gates, and Why NAND Can Build Everything, from Mon, 12 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #3: Full Adder on Wed, 14 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 3 (Building blocks): K-Maps: Simplify Logic by Drawing Boxes, from Mon, 19 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #4: 4-to-1 Multiplexer on Wed, 21 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 4 (Building blocks): Latches vs Flip-Flops: Memory in Hardware, from Mon, 26 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #5: D Flip-Flop with Enable and Reset on Wed, 28 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 5 (Systems): Counters, from Mon, 2 Nov, 7:30 pm IST