“Testing is tattooed on my forehead”

When he was a student, he didn’t have the slightest interest in chips, let alone in testing them. Now, Erik Jan Marinissen is an authority in the IC test and design-for-test arena and even teaches on the subject.

A challenge to Bits&Chips readers

Now that the coronavirus is surging again, people need a ray of hope, a credible perspective that they can regain some of their freedom soon. Can technology provide it?

In other news

So much data, so little value

Many companies claim to gather so much data, but the amount of value generated from that data is very small. In my experience, there are at least three factors at play: sense of ownership, local optimization and cost of ‘productizing’ data.