Episodes

  • #721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes

    #721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes
    Apr 9 2026
    Julia Desmazes joins Chris to discuss designing chips for fun and getting an entire design done in 2 weeks to make a tapeout deadline. Julia built accerlators and has continued to dive deeper into on and off chip tooling for greater visibility into the silicon she gets back from the fab.
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    1 hr
  • #720 – Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns

    #720 – Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns
    Apr 1 2026
    Dave and Chris discuss Golioth getting acquired by Canonical (makers of Ubuntu), trying out OpenClaw in the lab, changes to space plans, big new factories, Arm making chips, and more!
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • #719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow

    #719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow
    Mar 20 2026
    Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacturer of GaN MOSFET's. Alex is also the inventor of the original Power MOSFET and HEXFET at International Rectifier. Also, former CEO of International Rectifier (founded by his father!), https://epc-co.com We cover everything from inventing the power MOSFET on his first day on the job to silicon physics, AI data centres and humanoid robots. Enjoy.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • #718 – Layout Review with Zachariah Peterson

    #718 – Layout Review with Zachariah Peterson
    Mar 11 2026
    Zachariah Peterson joins Chris to discuss doing PCB layout and creating content for engineers looking to learn more about how to build their own PCBs
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • #717 – Back on the road in ’26

    #717 – Back on the road in ’26
    Mar 4 2026
    This week we talked about upcoming travel, solid state transformers, battery testing, new small circuit boards, and a bunch more.
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    1 hr
  • #716 – Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray

    #716 – Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray
    Feb 26 2026
    David Ray joins Dave (Jones) to talk about the history of electronics manufacturing and how he has built a high mix manufacturing business while regularly educating the public about how electronics work.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • #715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky

    #715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky
    Feb 10 2026
    Founder of Pebble and CEO of CoreDevices, Eric Migicovsky, joins Chris to talk about the history of the Pebble Watch and resurrecting the hardware to serve a very loyal ecosystem. Along the way, Eric has continued to create new gadgets like the Index 01 ring.
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    59 mins
  • #714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe

    #714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
    Feb 3 2026
    Martin Rowe is a long time technical editor for publications like EE World, EDN, and Test and Measurement World. He stops by The Amp Hour to talk about the things he has seen and the people he has met in the electronics industry, and he's still going strong!
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    1 hr and 17 mins