A New Era for Mechanical CAD

The hardware industry is desperate for a modern way to do mechanical design. A new CAD program created for the modern world would lower the barrier to building hardware, decrease the time of development, and usher in a new era of building. The tools used to build with today are supported on the shoulders of giants, but a lot could be done to make them even better. At some point, mechanical CAD lost some of its roots of innovation. Let's dive into a few of the problems with the CAD programs that exist today and see how to make them better.

Control interno de inventarios y su relación en la rentabilidad de la empresa HECALIRO JIA SAC, Tarapoto

El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar la relación existente entre el control interno de inventarios y su relación con la rentabilidad de la empresa HECALIRO JIA SAC, Tarapoto. El enfoque de estudio fue cuantitativo de tipo aplicada, con un alcance correlacional y diseño no experimental. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 14 colaboradores que laboran en las distintas áreas de la empresa. El instrumento de recolección de datos fue un cuestionario que mide el control interno de inventarios y la rentabilidad de la empresa diseñado para empresas del rubro ferretero. Los datos recolectados fueron procesados en el software paquete estadístico IBM SPSS Stadistics versión 25. Al término del estudio se llegó a la conclusión que si existe relación significativa entre el control interno de inventarios y la rentabilidad de la empresa HECALIRO JIA SAC ya que se obtuvo un Tau b de Kendall (t = ????. 780??; ???? =????. ????00) el cual indica que a mayor control de inventarios mayor será la rentabilidad de la empresa. ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to determine the existing relationship between internal inventory control and its relationship with the profitability of the company HECALIRO JIA SAC, Tarapoto. The study approach was quantitative of the applied type, with a correlational scope and non-experimental design. The sample consisted of 14 collaborators who work in the different areas of the company. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire that measures the internal control of inventories and the profitability of the company designed for companies in the hardware industry. The data collected were processed in the statistical software package IBM SPSS Statistics version 25. At the end of the study it was concluded that if there is a significant relationship between the internal control of inventories and the profitability of the company HECALIRO JIA SAC since a Kendall's tau b (t = ????. 780 ??; ???? = ????. ????00) which indicates that the greater the control of inventories, the higher the profitability of the company.

Today’s computing challenges: opportunities for computer hardware design

Due to the explosive increase of digital data creation, demand on advancement of computing capability is ever increasing. However, the legacy approaches that we have used for continuous improvement of three elements of computer (process, memory, and interconnect) have started facing their limits, and therefore are not as effective as they used to be and are also expected to reach the end in the near future. Evidently, it is a large challenge for computer hardware industry. However, at the same time it also provides great opportunities for the hardware design industry to develop novel technologies and to take leadership away from incumbents. This paper reviews the technical challenges that today’s computing systems are facing and introduces potential directions for continuous advancement of computing capability, and discusses where computer hardware designers find good opportunities to contribute.

Balancing Automation and Control for Formal Verification of Microprocessors

Formal methods are becoming an indispensable part of the design process in software and hardware industry. It takes robust tools and proofs to make formal validation of large scale projects reliable. In this paper, we will describe the current status of formal verification at Centaur Technology. We will explain our challenges and our methodology—how various proofs and verification artifacts are interconnected and how we keep them consistent over the duration of a project. We also describe our main engine—a powerful symbolic simulator with rewriting capabilities that is integrated in a theorem prover and proven correct.

Are the Blockchain-Based Patents Sustainable for Increasing Firm Value?

Blockchain technology is changing conventional online transaction systems by eliminating payment gateway firms. The blockchain technology is highly attractive and has earned a lot of attention from investors and firms. To protect blockchain technology, firms acquire a patent of blockchain for enhancing the value of their blockchain technology. However, the sustainable value for a patent of blockchain has not been clearly explored. For this reason, our research attempted to explore the relationship between a patent of blockchain and firm value. We used a real options theory and built robust empirical tests based on United State Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO) data. We collected the patents of blockchains from 2014 to 2018 and matched financial data from the Compustat database. In total, we found 153 panel observations. Our results suggest that a firm’s patent of blockchain originality and t-1 lagged effects for a firm’s patent of blockchain generality are positively associated with firm value in general. In addition, the sustainable value for the patent of blockchain affects firms differently based on their industry. We found that the sustainable value for the patent of blockchain originality was positively and exclusively associated with the software industry, while the sustainable value for the patent of blockchain generality was positively and exclusively associated with the hardware industry.

Does Smart & Powerful CEO Contribute to the Performance of Technology Companies?

In recent decades, innovative companies became one of the major drivers of economy worldwide. According to surveys, nearly 70% of the world’s most innovative companies in 2019 are U.S. firms. However, academic studies mostly focused on the influence of the top management team and the board of director’s on the firm performance, on the relationship between innovations and CEO`s preferences. However, we suppose CEO can exert a significant influence on performance of innovative companies. We strive to show which CEO characteristics could lead to higher firm value. Does highly educated CEO contribute more to innovations in hi-tech sphere? Does CEO power matter? Are founders better CEOs than newcomers or professionals for technological companies with their longer horizons and higher risks? This research uses Generalized Least Square model on a sample of 12565 firm-year observations during 2004-2015 period. For this research we used data for three innovative industries: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences, Software & Services and Technology Hardware & Equipment industries. We have hand-collected data from the CVs in CIQ database. Overall, the empirical results reveal that educational background, tenure, duality play crucial roles in explaining firm value. This study contributes to the existing literature in two aspects. First, our findings indicate that CEO characteristics play crucial roles in explaining technology firm value and performance. We demonstrated that founding CEO contributes to technology firm performance as well as the CEO with better education. Second, CEOs should be smart and powerful in order to sustain firm performance. We found that CEOs characteristics could mitigate the conflicts between different types of investors and their influence on firm performance. More specifically, CEOfounder was found to add greatly to the firm performance of Software and Pharmaceutical companies. Furthermore, the influence of CEO seems to mitigate the conflict of interest with independent active institutional investors in Hardware industry. We provided examples to prove the validity of our tests.