Great engineers have the ability to socialize their ideas, and spar respectfully with their technical colleagues. Listen to Dave and Sumiran focus on this foundational skill and share how we can all improve our communication. Dave Harriman is a Distinguished Engineer and chair of the PCIe protocol working group. Sumiran Shubhi is a Principal Engine…

Design Verification is a discipline that sits on the boundary between hardware and software -- many of the same engineering skills come into play, but the end goal is to ship a piece of silicon! And the design space keep getting exponentially larger, yet the number of DV engineers is held constant, so what can a CPU designer do? Listen in as Allan …

Ampere’s 2024 Strategy and Roadmap Update. As a company that specializes in sustainable and power-efficient computing for the cloud and AI, Ampere is proud to highlight our continued innovation and invention in this field including details on upcoming products, milestones, and key industry alliances.Renee James, Founder and CEOJeff Wittich, Chief P…

Two software engineers come together to discuss all the aspects of solving problems at the hardware software interface. Our firmware intern Jacob Little joins us from North Carolina State University, and speaks to one of Ampere's technical leaders, Kevin Smith. Kevin is the Vice President of Languages and Compilers. Topics in this episode include w…

Listen to our mechanical engineers discuss all aspects of board design at a server startup. Our intern Kate Murray joins us through Oregon State University's MECOP initiative, and speaks with her team leader Josh Levy who is a Principal Engineer in the mechanical design team. Topics in this show include thermal analysis and thermal solutions, vibra…

Hear Ampere executives, partners, and end users discuss the future of cloud computing and the importance of high performance, high efficiency compute.Renee James, Founder and CEO Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer Learn more about Ampere at https://www.amperecomputing.comFootnote:The web services study here is based on performance and power data f…

Another intern has joined us in the studio, continuing the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with senior leaders. In this installment, Tito Reinhard joins us from Portland State University, and speaks with his team leader Pete Baker who is the VP of Customer and Developer Engineering. Topics in this show include sustainable engineering…

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we continue with the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with their mentors. This time, Susana Alcorta speaks with Scott Tetrick on their work with applied machine learning and teases out war stories from Scott's time building and debugging SoCs. Susana Alcorta is working on her PhD at UT-Austin, and…

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we continue with the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with senior leaders. In this installment, Ashley Reid and Sean Varley meet to chat about sustainable computing and the engineering challenges that Ampere overcomes to build low-power processors. Sean also talks about his journey through firmwar…

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we continue with the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with their mentors. In this installment, Yash Caculo and Mike Julier share stories from their work on CPU architecture and workload characterization, along with tips on when to build tools and how to write clean code. We hear how Mike applies l…

Zaid Alali and Darren Hart come into the studio to share what the Open Source Software team is doing at Ampere, plus tips for how to interact with the Linux community. Zaid is an recent PhD graduate from University of Colorado, and Darren is a Distinguished Engineer in software systems.By Ampere Computing

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we bring you the first of a series of episodes where junior engineers chat with their mentors and managers. Here, Justin Newsome (North Carolina State University) invites Arjun Khare to share insights into our internship program, and the philosophies of engineering. Arjun is a Principal Engineer in the Software…

Naren Nayak and Mahesh Madhav discuss the challenges of simultaneous multi-threaded cores and why single-threaded cores deliver predictable performance, better security, and lower TCO for cloud computing.By Ampere Computing

Hear Ampere executives and cloud providers discuss the future of cloud computing with the Ampere® Altra® processor family, as well as key customers sharing their enthusiasm for these products. Renee James, Founder and CEO Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer Learn more about Ampere at https://www.amperecomputing.com…

Naren Nayak is the Director of Application Engineering in the product solutions team at Ampere Computing, working on enabling customers to get the most out of Ampere Altra and Altra Max SoCs. He shared insights on what cloud service providers are looking for in their hyperscale installations, and the techniques Ampere uses to ensure our products me…

Matt Erler is a Principal Engineer in the architecture team at Ampere Computing, working on SoCs and coherency protocols. We chatted about how we choose whether to build our own IP or license externally, competitive benchmarking, how our team flourishes from the creation of a psychologically safe working environment, and how we welcome a diverse cr…

Richard Shannon is a Distinguished Engineer in the architecture team at Ampere Computing, working on SoC and interconnects. We sat down and talked about the kinds of problems cloud service providers are looking to solve and how Ampere addresses that market. We also chat about what an SoC architect actually does and how we mentor the next generation…

Hear Ampere executives and cloud providers discuss the future of cloud computing with Ampere® Altra and Altra Max, and exciting new developments on our product roadmap. Renee James, Founder and CEO Atiq Bajwa, Chief Technology OfficerJeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer Learn more about Ampere at https://www.amperecomputing.com…

Renee James is the founder and CEO of Ampere Computing. In this interview, she shares her motivations behind starting a new semiconductor company, and how the new Altra processor was designed for cloud software.Learn more about our Altra and Altra Max processors at www.amperecomputing.com.By Ampere Computing

Tony D'Anna is the Director of Technical Program Management at Ampere Computing. Tony returned to the studio to share the life cycle of the Ampere Altra SoC product, from power-on to customer shipments and ongoing support.Learn more about Ampere at www.amperecomputing.com/By Ampere Computing

In 2021, Ampere is leading in software though building community, fostering technical partnerships, ensuring open-source performance, and seeding the next generation of engineers in cloud. Hear our software leaders speak about enabling the cloud software ecosystem. We are joined by Amar Dhamdhere, Peter Kessler, Travis Lazar, Peter Pouliot, and [no…

Tony D'Anna is the Director of Technical Program Management at Ampere Computing. We sat down with Tony to discuss the design and buildout of motherboards for the Altra product line.Learn more about Ampere at www.amperecomputing.com/By Ampere Computing

Christen turns the mic around and interviews Mahesh, and gets him to open up about his journeys in the technical and creative realms, and how he teases out stories from the employees at Ampere Computing.By Ampere Computing

In this episode, Stacey Ross and Kalpana Kothapally share the art and science of design verification, the methodology of finding bugs in hardware designs before tape-out, before silicon. There is a particular mindset that DV engineers must take, to root out problems in designs, and the techniques they use have direct analogies to software quality c…

In this episode, William Freelove and Travis Lazar take to the mics to discuss the importance of DevOps in a small company, the prevalent use of open source tools in our workflow, and how Ampere is efficiently validating hardware and software. Travis also coins a new term (CIDR) and explains how continuous* methodologies improve software quality.…

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Four interns from our 2019 summer class take over the studio and share thoughts on working at Ampere. Thanks go to Kat Thompson (Reed), Anthony Faubert (Washington), Brita Hill (Portland State), and Mayur Parelkar (Carnegie Mellon). Cheers to a great learning experience!Summer 2022 applications are now online at our careers website. If you join, yo…

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Why dominants don't chase you!! Sorry for my horrible voice, I have a cold.

Answering a listeners question about being clingy and needy.

Are you a "save me" submissive?

What are we communicating when we are not talking?? (and a little bit on how I talk politics with Sir Redemption)

Featuring Dawn from The Erotic Awakening Podcast gives her thoughts on what it means to be a Fearless Submissive. Catch Dan and Dawn on the Erotic Awakening Podcast!!

Knowing your anger. What makes you angry and how do you handle it? (AKA when Julie got really angry but didn't completely lose her shit.) Sorry about the loud background, I must have been driving next to a big truck!!!

julieR's thoughts on balancing your life and self care.

Musings from the Los Angeles GrUE V. Photo taken at the Pancake Breakfast.

Priorities. Realizing that I was so busy taking of care of things that I stopped making time for Him.

How to deal when you don't like your Dominant's other partner.

Welcoming back Star to the show to talk about her upcoming Submissive Bootcamp as well as her upcoming podcast DarkStar Kink!!! Submissive Bootcamp, Class 1 Dark Star Kink Podcast

julie_R talks about adapting to the changes in her life.

julie and Star talking about your limits and your Dominants limits. Also, what is a no-limit slave?

Sitting down to talk to Starkraving. The long path to slavehood. House Ravynblood

JulieR talks about role play. Her Daddy/little girl play with Sir Redemption and how that has grown over the years. Ways to introduce role play into your relationship and things to watch out for.

What happens when things stop being kinky?