By Brian Fuller If you followed us for the past couple of years on drive for innovation, this info graphic should come as no surprise. A lot of what we’ve covered, the interviews we’ve done, and the insights we’ve heard from the road tell us how to build a culture and from innovation. But I have to say that this

LOS ANGELES–So often, we get ahead of ourselves a consuming public, especially when it comes to technology innovation. Take power generation and smart-grid management. We know that electronics that drive enormous efficiency gains on the grid. After all, our smart phones can guide us to someplace we’ve never been, so why not immediately optimize all our home appliances to help

By Jennifer Delony You’ve seen the highlights here on the Drive for Innovation; programs across the U.S. are beginning to deliver more resources and funding to help students thrive in technology studies and deliver on an innovative future. We met Don Morgan of Brooks County High School, who strives to build an engineering program in an agriculture town, and we made

By Malcolm Fuller, Contributing Writer SURREY, B.C.—Most revolutionary inventions come from years of grueling research and hours in a lab, but not the bar code. N. Joseph Woodland was sitting on a beach drawing lines in the sand with his finger. Woodland left a historic legacy in his wake, when he passed away on Dec. 8, 2012 at the age of 91.

By Malcolm Fuller, Contributing Writer LOS GATOS, Calif.—Sometimes, an inflection point only comes along once in a generation. When it comes to power consumption, that time is now, according to Bruce McWilliams, President and CEO of SuVolta. For decades, the electronics-design paradigm was all about the megahertz arms race, as Intel pushed out faster and faster microprocessors in a battle for supremacy

By Brian Fuller Apple’s got a problem these days, and it’s not just a shareholder value problem. It’s a problem that faces most mature electronics companies at one point or another: It’s new-product innovation pipeline is gummed up. But first let’s recap: The popular concern today is that Apple share price is off significantly since last year and that there

By Brian Fuller PHOENIX–Was beer really the last great innovation in civilization? Of course the answer is “not really,” but Wade McDaniel and I share a good laugh when he brings it up. We’ve seen tons of innovation since the Sumerians figured out how to craft a fermented elixir that wouldn’t kill whoever consumed it. But the argument’s been put

By Brian Fuller SAN JOSE, Calif.–So much is written and spoken about innovation and yet it remains so very difficult to do. I’m endlessly fascinated by it, because there are companies such as Apple that make it look effortless. When we herded Paul Cunningham into a room here at Cadence Design Systems’ headquarters, it afforded us an opportunity to ask

SAN JOSE, Calif—Kicking the crystal habit is difficult when people talk about addiction to the drug crystal meth. But it’s just as challenging in electronics when you’re considering moving from crystal oscillators to quartz-free oscillators. Crystal oscillators have been around for decades, and are small, cheap are prized for their frequency stability. Drive for Innovation Editor, Brian Fuller spent time