IEEE Spectrum: 25 Microchips That Shook the World

This article is an interesting read and it surprisingly includes the Tripath TA2020 (now no longer manufactured). Tripath certainly made ripples in the audio world but the big players like Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor have since become the leaders in class D amplification. More surprisingly, TI and National will shortly become one company after a merger agreement was announced a couple of months ago.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/25-microchips-that-shook-the-world/0

AppleSyncNotifier: Windows startup error.

If you get the error,

AppleSyncNotifier:The procedure entry point sqlite3_wal_checkpoint could not be located int he dynamic link library SQLite3.dll.

This solution could help.

Copy the file SQLite3.dll from the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support folder to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support folder.

It is important that you simply copy this file and not move it as multiple programs use this dll. Hopefully this helps those who can’t get rid of the error and didn’t find the reference on the apple forum.