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The Incredible Shrinking Transistor
Shattering Perceived Barriers and Forging Ahead
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
 and 
Tahir Ghani
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From Silicon Valley to Silicon Island
Connecting the Dots Between the American and Taiwanese Chip Industries
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
4
The Leadership Philosophy of Jensen Huang
“What is this machine that you are trying to create?
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
Three Shifts Re-defining the Semiconductor Landscape
“I've never seen any technology advance faster than this.
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
4
On the Origins of AWS Custom Silicon
“During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn’t yet adequate to meet customer needs, a proprietary…
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Pushkar Ranade
4
The Relentless Pursuit of Moore’s Law
Part 2: The S-Curves of Computing
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
 and 
Jim Keller
The Relentless Pursuit of Moore's Law
Part 1: Abstraction Layers
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
 and 
Jim Keller
2
Software 2.0 and the Future of Chip Design
“We took a step back and we said, “What is the implication of this?” Not just for computer vision, but ultimately for how software is done altogether.
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
How Apple Disrupted the US Semiconductor Industry
American Hi-tech Manufacturing in the Post-Mobile Era
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
1
Enabling the Chiplet Era
Fabric and Cache Architecture
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
4
Fast Airplanes and Tiny Transistors
Part 3 : Lessons from the Concorde
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
Fast Airplanes and Tiny Transistors
Part 2 : Lessons from McDonnell-Douglas
 • 
Pushkar Ranade
1
Fast Airplanes and Tiny Transistors
Part 1 : Lessons from Douglas Aircraft Company
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Pushkar Ranade
2
The Apple-TSMC Partnership
The TSMC-Apple partnership has been one of the defining relationships of the mobile computing era.
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Pushkar Ranade
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