Embedded Executive Podcast

It’s obvious that you can do 5G without AI. However, the inverse is not always true—adding 5G to AI makes the AI platform run far more efficiently. In the third of three podcasts, I discussed this topic with Allan Yang, the CTO of Advantech. Allan brings a great perspective, as his company is one of the architects behind AI platforms. Hear all about it in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.In case you were wondering, Part I looked at the general definition of AIoT, which you likely know, means different things to different people. Then in Part II, Allan and I discuss whether there’s really a need for AIoT, and if the current solutions are really solutions.

Being part of a division that works with artificial intelligence, you’d expect that the folks at Lenovo would come up with some innovative ways to operate during the pandemic. And you’d be right. Hear what Rob Herman, Lenovo’s General Manager of its Workstation and Client AI Business Unit had to say in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

AI and all its varied facets are new to most of the world. The technology is taking off and, in some developers’ eyes, a little faster than it should be. The reason for that pessimism has to do with the lack of testing that’s occurred and continues to (not) occur with respect to AI. Ken Grohe, the President of WekaIO joins me for this week’s Embedded Executives podcast where we discuss why this phenomenon is occurring, and what we should do about it.

It seems like there’s a new security solution popping up on a daily basis. One new entrant is SecuriThings, an IoT security vendor focusing on the healthcare industry. They’re moving one step up the food chain from our traditional embedded vendor in that their customer is the hospital, rather than the device maker. But the issues are just about the same. Hear it directly from SecuriThings CEO and Co-Founder Roy Dagan, in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

There’s no moss gathering on the RISC-V stone. The group continues to make progress in just about all facets of its roadmap. To understand what those milestones are (and why they are place), I spoke to the RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

In part II of a three-part series, Allan Yang, the Chief Technology Officer of Advantech, joins to discuss whether the application defines and solves the problem, or has the IoT become a solution looking for a problem. I’m oversimplifying here, but check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast to hear the details.In part I, Allan and I put down our collective definitions of AIoT - level the playing field, so to speak. 

Is memory that’s aimed at a specific market really customized for that segment, or is it just marketing spiel? We have mobile memory, IoT memory, AI memory, and so on. Are they really different? That’s the question I posed to Huibert Verhoeven, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive, Mobile and Emerging business segments at Western Digital in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

InnovationLab is giving new meaning to printed electronics. The company is literally printing electronics, not like a typical PCB. The current application is for sensors, like temperature sensors, but the potential is huge (and inexpensive). Check out my discussion with Florian Ullrich, Head of Business Development for InnovationLab this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

This week’s podcast guest, Johanna Pingel, a Product Manager at MathWorks, said that engineers should be concerned with the AI workflow. Do you agree? Do you even know what that means? I didn’t so I decided to go directly to the source and ask the question. Hear the answer on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

We’ve defined AIoT on multiple occasions; it’s where AI intersects with the IoT. And for our purposes, it typically involves the Industrial IoT, aka IIoT. To understand what this means to a system developer, and the impact that it’s had on their business, I chatted with Allan Yang, the Chief Technology Officer of Advantech in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. We started by discussing whether hardware is now simply a commodity, or whether innovation really can occur on the hardware side when it comes to AIoT.