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Semiconductor IP Cost and Security in the Internet-of-Things (IOT) – John Blyler interviews (Pt. 2) Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST IP, at the IOT DevCon, Oct 7, 2017. We continue with our discussion of the changing landscape for semiconductor IP royalties in the Internet-of-Things (IOT) market. Nikos questions if hardware commoditization is really dead.
Interview conducted at the IOT Developers Conference, 2017.
Originally published on JB Systems Tech and Media, Nov 2017. (Used with permission).
John has over 40+ years of combined technical and editorial experience in the semiconductor, electronics, and system engineering spaces. He was the editor-in-chief of Chip Design and Semi-Manufacturing Design (SemiMD) magazines. His works have appeared in numerous professional and trade journal publications and in several text books published by Wiley, Elsevier and the IEEE. John teaches systems engineering as an affiliate professor at Portland State University and an online lecturer at Univ. of California at Irvine. He holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Oregon State Univ. and an MS in Electronic Engineering from Cal. State Univ., Northridge.
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