Chuck Byers, Director of Brand Management at the world's No.1 silicon foundry, TSMC, tells a great yarn of how, as a 22 year-old cub reporter, he had a lesson of supreme importance inculcated into him by his editor.
Can using the sea-of-processors approach to address the programmable logic market work? Naturally, John Daane, CEO of programmable logic pioneer Altera, doesn't think it can.
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In 1986, after Fairchild Semiconductor had been run by, in succession, Les Hogan, Wilf Corrigan and Tom Rogers, and had been sold to the French oil-field services company Schlumberger, National Semiconductor bought Fairchild for $122 million.
An unexpected benefit of Gordon Brown's ban on short-sellers of shares is that the hedge funds appear to be shafted.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini must have felt a little uncomfortable when he saw that ARM had joined IBM's Common Platform programme for next generation process technologies.
There was once a great company which was very good at linear ICs. It spent a lot of money trying to get into digital products - so much that many of its best linear people left to form their own linear companies.
The first
Thanks to DisplaySearch for this one: the ten fastest growing applications for flat panel displays between 2008 and 2010. They are:
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How do you overcome the rising costs of ASIC? Add programmability, says John Daane, CEO of programmable logic pioneer Altera.
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The good news is: 'The world has capital coming out its ears'. The even better news is that the guy who said that is the CEO of the Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group, which knows more about the finances of the
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It's fairly amazing to think that, if you want a fully functional 28nm chip, you'll be able to get one by the end of this year. TSMC is promising to have a 28nm CyberShuttle prototyping service available by the end of the year.
After so many years of being exposed to the chronically loss-making NOR flash market, Spansion's shares are a very affordable $2 apiece.
Ed Sturmer, co-founder, with Dick Skipworth, of Memec which became the world's third largest electronic component distributor, tells a yarn of how it nearly all went horribly wrong when, a year after starting the company, most of Memec's stock was stolen.
Surely that Arthur C Clarke idea of the Space Elevator is something mind-blowingly many years away from reality? Isn't it? Believe it or not, a body called The Japan Space Elevator Association has just published plans how to build one.
Consolidation always strikes me as a miserable business and, according to that insightful PriceWaterhouseCoopers book, Five Frogs On A Log, destroys shareholder value more often than increasing it, so I was a bit surprised to find three semiconductor industry CEOs saying, last week, that the semiconductor industry needs more consolidation.
There was once a persistent entrepreneur who founded a chip company which became, at the time, the fastest growing company
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Thanks to ReadWriteWeb for this one, the ten best apps for those who've managed to 'jailbreak', or unlock their their iPods.
CEOs go through some of the same merde as the rest of us, as this tale, told to me by a Silicon Valley CEO, shows.
"IF THE DISCRETE component manufacturer is dead then we, as a dead company, have only doubled our turn-over' in the last five years."
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