Hardware companies benefit from tangible demand, secured orders, and near-term cash flows, while software faces uncertainty around model economics, disruption risks, and capex payoff. Hardware and ...

Hardware and software are two sides of the same coin, but they often live in different worlds. In the past, hardware and software rarely were designed together, and many companies and products failed ...

Even when you start with a genuinely great idea, moving from software development to designing and building physical tech products isn’t a simple shift. It not only requires your team to learn new ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Sanjukta Mitra, a tech industry pioneer, bridges the once-impermeable divide between the physical and digital worlds. Her innovative ...

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order ...

Safety-critical embedded software development is more complex—and more consequential—than ever. Hardware constraints, growing modularity requirements, demanding debugging environments, and rigorous ...

Jim Xiao is the founder and CEO of Mason, innovator of the fastest way to take smart devices from idea to end user. Building secure and private environments for dedicated smart devices is crucial to ...

CRN highlights 50 companies leading the way in edge computing with hardware, software and services. The largest hardware and software companies in the world are investing heavily in edge computing as ...

In my previous article, “Why Is Hardware So Easy and Software So Hard?,” I suggested that hardware design is much easier than software. My fellow Design News contributor, Jacob Beningo, responded with ...

In recent years, organizations have continued to add software-based components to their storage infrastructure. This includes RAID to maximize storage capacity and reduce risks of data loss. Some ...

Load balancers, once almost exclusive to the realm of hardware devices, can now be implemented effectively in software on another server. The line between hardware and software load balancers is ...

Friends, it is great to talk with you again. I hope you had a restful break. In the two weeks since we last chatted, I spent some time organizing my work and thinking about what I want to accomplish ...