Silicon to Software covers PCB manufacturing, AI infrastructure, hardware, and cybersecurity — written by an industry insider with 20+ years in PCB electronics manufacturing and technical sales.
I’m Imran, a Sales Director in PCB electronics manufacturing serving major Bay Area and global tech clients. I write about the hardware layer that makes AI, autonomous systems, and modern technology actually work — the circuit boards, chips, and supply chains that most tech writers never see up close.
What Silicon to Software Covers:
- AI infrastructure and compute
- PCB manufacturing and hardware
- Autonomous systems and EVs
- Cybersecurity at the hardware level
- Data centers and silicon supply chains
Latest Articles
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AI PC NPUs Explained: What TOPS Ratings Actually Mean for Laptop Performance
Across flagship AI laptops in 2026, TOPS has become the headline number attached to the NPU. Here’s what that number measures, what Microsoft’s Copilot+ certification actually requires, and where the memory bandwidth feeding the NPU — not the compute rating on the box — is the real constraint on performance.
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Rare Earth Magnets Explained: Why the Real Bottleneck Comes After Mining
EV motors, wind turbines, robots, and electronics all depend on high-performance permanent magnets — and the largest diversification gap sits downstream, in refining, metallization, and magnet manufacturing, not at the mine.
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Printed Electronics vs. Flexible PCB: What Conductive Ink Can and Can’t Replace
Conductive inks and additive manufacturing are opening up substrates and geometries that rigid FR-4 and even standard flex-PCB processes were never built to reach — but the sintering step still decides where this technology stops.
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