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The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo: Chips, Devices, and Electronics Engineering Conversations

The Hardware Podcast with Fexingo: Chips, Devices, and Electronics Engineering Conversations

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Lucas and Luna sit down at a lab bench cluttered with oscilloscopes and prototype boards to talk about the engineering decisions that shape the chips powering modern life. Each episode takes one piece of hardware — a new RISC-V core, a GaN power amplifier, a MEMS accelerometer — and examines its design trade-offs, yield challenges, and market positioning. They discuss why Intel’s 20A node matters for foundry customers, how TSMC’s CoWoS packaging affects AI accelerator supply, and what the CHIPS Act subsidies mean for domestic fab construction. Lucas brings the component-level knowledge (threshold voltages, die sizes, lithography steps); Luna pushes on the system-level implications (thermal constraints, software compatibility, supply chain risk). The listener is someone who reads datasheets for fun, follows EDA tool announcements, or needs to decide between an FPGA and an ASIC for their next product. No hot takes on Apple’s latest chip — just a careful look at what the die shot reveals and whether the architecture will trickle down to mid-range devices. Can a country really onshore advanced semiconductor manufacturing in a decade? How do you test a chip with billions of transistors? And what does the shift to chiplets mean for the engineer designing a PCB today? #SemiconductorIndustry #ChipDesign #HardwareEngineering #Electronics #TSMC #Intel #RISCV #GaN #MEMS #EDA #ASIC #FPGA #CHIPSAct #DieShot #EngineeringConversations #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economics
Episodes
  • How Chips Are Learning to Rewire Themselves

    How Chips Are Learning to Rewire Themselves
    Jun 14 2026
    Episode 51 of The Hardware Podcast explores the emerging field of runtime-reconfigurable logic. Lucas and Luna dive into how a startup called FlexLogix is embedding reconfigurable data-path units inside server chips, allowing the chip to rewire its own circuits while the system is running—no new silicon needed. The discussion centers on a real deployment at a major cloud provider where reconfigurable logic cut a critical inference latency by 40 percent without any hardware swap. The hosts explain the difference between traditional FPGA-based reconfiguration and these new on-die tiles, the trade-offs in area and power, and why every hyperscaler is now funding internal research groups on this exact idea. If today's conversation gave you something useful, the show stays ad-free thanks to listener support at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. #ReconfigurableComputing #FlexLogix #RuntimeReconfiguration #ChipDesign #FPGA #DataPath #HardwareAcceleration #CloudComputing #Semiconductors #Inference #Latency #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #HardwarePodcast #ElectronicsEngineering #Chips #Devices Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 mins
  • Why Chips Are Getting a Dedicated Security Co-Processor

    Why Chips Are Getting a Dedicated Security Co-Processor
    Jun 14 2026
    Episode 50 of The Hardware Podcast dives into the rising trend of on-chip security cores — dedicated hardware engines that handle encryption, attestation, and key management separately from the main CPU. Lucas and Luna explore why Apple's Secure Enclave, Google's Titan M, and AMD's Platform Security Processor signal a fundamental shift in chip design. They unpack the numbers: a modern server chip can spend up to 10% of its transistor budget on security logic, and how that trade-off changes performance and power. Plus, a look at the open-source OpenTitan project and what it means for the future of trusted computing. If this conversation gave you something usable, the show runs on listener support. #SecurityCoProcessor #HardwareSecurity #SecureEnclave #TitanM #OpenTitan #ChipDesign #HardwareEngineering #TrustedComputing #AppleSilicon #AMD #Google #RootOfTrust #EncryptionHardware #Semiconductor #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #HardwarePodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 mins
  • The Quiet Revolution in Chip Substrates

    The Quiet Revolution in Chip Substrates
    Jun 13 2026
    Lucas and Luna dive into the unsung hero of chip performance: the substrate. They explore how Intel's glass substrate breakthrough is reshaping the race for faster, cooler, and more efficient processors. With real-world examples like AMD's EPYC and NVIDIA's GB200, they unpack the materials science, supply chain implications, and why the substrate might be the next frontier in Moore's Law. #ChipSubstrates #GlassSubstrates #Intel #AMD #NVIDIA #Semiconductors #Moore'sLaw #MaterialsScience #AdvancedPackaging #GB200 #EPYC #Technology #HardwareEngineering #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechPodcast #ChipDesign #SupplyChain Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
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