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 ...

It's an age-old question: hardware or software?On one hand, the hardware is what you hold or have plugged in. Hardware has all of the components that make your particular device work, and without it, ...

Software will eat the world. That’s what they say, but IoT is inherently not only software. When it comes to looking at hardware startups, or even products, you need to look at a lot of moving parts.

Part 1: Different goals and methodologies have long divided hardware and software engineering teams. Some companies have solved these issues, others are working on them. Since the advent of embedded ...

Editor’s note: Min-Liang Tan is co-founder and CEO at Razer. Nest. GoPro. Beats. Jawbone. Oculus. All hardware companies and each of them accorded multi-billion-dollar valuations either in private ...

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 ...

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 ...

“To develop the software, you need the hardware. To develop the hardware, you need the software.” This is one of my favorite quotes from a recent Design Automation Conference. Well, it’s no wonder ...

Ask any car enthusiast what it takes to “pimp my ride” for better performance and they will probably talk about spending thousands of dollars on upgraded fuel injection systems, turbochargers, special ...