Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act , our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC , China, etc. Engineers design chips (adding their own designs on top of any IP cores they’ve bought) using specialized Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. But they don’t design chips.

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MAY 17, 2022

Power Recommendation Engines. Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. Examples here , here and here. An example application is Dall-E. Generative Design of Physical Products.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The rise of generative AI is expected to affect every vertical: health, education, fintech, gaming – creating opportunities for startups. Supply chain, in particular around chips (which might be impacted severely in case of an escalation in Taiwan), can cause havoc in tech.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Stanford as a Center of Microwave and Electronics In 1946 after running the military’s secret 800 person Electronic Warfare Lab at Harvard, Fred Terman returned to Stanford as the dean of the engineering schoo l.

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