Scaling Gets Scary
The limitations of scaling are getting pretty serious judging by Altera's reaction to 28nm processing.
The limitations of scaling are getting pretty serious judging by Altera's reaction to 28nm processing.
'Women Have Part To Play In Modern Science' - this was the headline of a feature in an Electronics Weekly edition published 50 years ago in 1960, the year EW was founded.
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Ed The Serial CEO is scouring the company's accounts looking for costs he can cut out in order to make the company's figures look as good as possible for the impending IPO.
This week's bit of fun happens on Thursday when, for the first time ever, a Chairman-designate of a DAX30 company could be rejected by a shareholders' vote.
In 1904 this was one of the songs sung by the dons and undergraduates after dinner at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University.
Rumours in two earlier posts, here and here, that Trident Microsystems will lay off 70 employees from the
Is the good old European taxpayer subsidising TSMC? This was asked at the IFS2010 meeting in
Trident Microsystems have now issued a statement in response to the question put to them earlier today about whether they plan to make redundancies at the
Speculation is mounting over the plans for the
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There was once a very big company, over 100 years old, which had grown big mainly by taking over its rivals in its domestic market.
The problem for the FPGA companies is growth. They've been stuck in a $3 billion niche since the year 2000 and the only significant progress for their products has been shrinking geometries and adding blocks.
That elusive beast, the ARM-based Netbook - or Smartbook as some like to call it - could have been spotted at CES.
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Could a Californian start-up called Agnilux (meaning Fire and Light) be working on ARM-based processors for servers?
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Thanks to the toptentopten web-site for this one. The greatest engineering achievments of the 20th Century were:
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At all costs, chip company CEOs should avoid following Wall Street's recommendations on how to run a semiconductor company, it was stated at IFS 2010 in
A record volume of radio and television business was achieved last year, Mr Jules Thorn, chairman and managing director of Thorn Electrical Industries, told shareholders at the AGM last week.
50 years ago, this is how a 1960 edition of Electronics Weekly opened a front page story.
Ed the Serial CEO is happy to see that the orders are flooding in as the semiconductor market appears to be on an upwards trajectory. He is surprised to find that his product managers are only raising their orders for foundry silicon by 20-30%.
In the early 1900s the Cavendish Laboratory at
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