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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window. Peter Barrett digitized some files and we delivered the board and computer to Bruce.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H. He sold the company to Teledyne in 1965.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board.)

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

This reduces network bandwidth issues and eliminates latency issues. Smart ” sensors coupled with inference engines that can pre-process raw intelligence and prioritize what data to transmit and store –helpful in degraded or low-bandwidth environments. Putting an AI chip in each camera reduces latency and bandwidth.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

It is among the hottest spaces for deep research and Venture Capital investment, and like all technologies before it, humans will roll the dice if there is a big dollar to be made, regardless of the potential externalities they might create. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

It is among the hottest spaces for deep research and Venture Capital investment, and like all technologies before it, humans will roll the dice if there is a big dollar to be made, regardless of the potential externalities they might create. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration.