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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 Chiplet Architecture Is Saving Moore's Law

    How Chiplet Architecture Is Saving Moore's Law
    Oct 22 2026
    We dig into the engineering and economic shift from monolithic silicon to chiplet design. Lucas breaks down why companies like AMD and Intel are abandoning massive single-die processors in favor of modular building blocks connected by high-speed interconnects. We look at the specific yield challenges that make large chips economically unviable today, and how advanced packaging is becoming the new frontier for performance gains. Luna explores the trade-offs between power efficiency and latency in these heterogeneous systems. This episode explains the technical reality behind the industry's biggest pivot since the transition to nanometer processes. #ChipletArchitecture #AdvancedPackaging #SemiconductorIndustry #MooreLawIsDead #HeterogeneousIntegration #AMDAndIntel #SiliconYield #ElectronicsEngineering #TechSupplyChain #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechnologyTrends #HardwareInnovation #ChipDesign #PackagingTechnology #SiliconPhotonics #TechEconomics #ManufacturingProcess Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    11 mins
  • Why Your Laptop Fan Never Stops Spinning

    Why Your Laptop Fan Never Stops Spinning
    Oct 21 2026
    We are looking at the thermal envelope crisis in modern consumer electronics, specifically how Moore's Law has hit a power wall that traditional cooling can no longer manage. Lucas and Luna break down why your laptop fan is spinning constantly even during light workloads, tracing it back to silicon density and the limits of passive heat dissipation. We explore the shift from pure clock speed to efficiency cores, the role of vapor chamber technology, and why software optimization is becoming just as critical as hardware design in keeping devices cool. This episode focuses on the engineering trade-offs Apple and Intel have made over the last three years, using real-world thermal throttling data to explain why performance feels different now compared to five years ago. #ThermalManagement #SiliconEngineering #LaptopCooling #MooreLawEnd #HeatDissipation #VaporChamber #EfficiencyCores #ThermalThrottling #ConsumerElectronics #HardwareDesign #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechTrends2026 #EngineeringInnovation #ChipArchitecture #PowerWall #DevicePerformance #SupplyChain Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 mins
  • How Chip Packaging Is Solving The Power Crisis

    How Chip Packaging Is Solving The Power Crisis
    Oct 20 2026
    As transistor scaling slows, the semiconductor industry is shifting focus from shrinking chips to stacking them. This episode explores how advanced packaging techniques like TSV and hybrid bonding are becoming the new frontier for performance gains. We look at why companies like Samsung and Intel are betting billions on 3D integration, and what it means for the future of computing efficiency in October 2026. #Semiconductors #ChipPackaging #AdvancedPackaging #TSV #HybridBonding #SamsungElectronics #IntelCorporation #NVIDIA #ComputingPower #HardwareEngineering #TechSupplyChain #3DIntegration #MooreSlaw #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechNews #Innovation #ElectronicsDesign #SiliconValley Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    11 mins
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