The Company Founder Whose Competitor Lived next Door
Nearly 40 years ago a company was founded to sell electronic games machines.
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Nearly 40 years ago a company was founded to sell electronic games machines.
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Good to hear the EC is going to help 512 sacked NXP workers with a €1.8 million contribution to a €2.8 billion package to help them get re-employed. But it's interesting to hear the reasons for the award as argued by the Dutch government in its application for the EC contribution.
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Semiconductor shortages are now hitting the ODM and
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Thanks to iSuppli for this one - the expected top ten purchasers of ICs in 2010 and 2011:
The Americans seem to have done a good job of mucking up the European semiconductor industry.
MARINE RADAR -
So, 50 years ago this year, starts the front page lead story in Electronics Weekly's edition of November 9th 1960.
The story continues:
'Decca are now offering shipowners the most comprehensive range of marine radars in the world.'
'The well-established range of X-band 3-cm radars known as the D.7 series has been extended by the addition of four completely new models.'
'In addition a new S-band 10-cm radar has been added to the range. This is the first S-band marine radar ever produced by
'All the new models employ a 75-kW transceiver and a slotted waveguide aerial. These combined give increased range and improved discrimination.'
Many people originally got into the semiconductor industry because the first semiconductor guy they saw was a well-dressed guy in a flashy car. Jerry Sanders III, Founding CEO of AMD, Dick Skipworth, Founding CEO of Memec, and Sir Robin Saxby, Founding CEO of ARM, were no exceptions
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One of the weirdest non-events of 2010 has been the 'Intel to buy Infineon wireless unit' story which has been running for about three months now across multiple media without anything actually happening.
There was once a company which did amazing things and had cash reserves of $40 billion.
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It's good to meet a CEO who's open to new business models, who looks to new uses for his technology, supports new technology developments and seeks new ways of taking his technology to market. James Lewis, founder of Oxford Semiconductors, now CEO of NXT, is like that.
To return to the Intel-McAfee thing - which has been a welcome talking point in a down time for talking points - here are four of the best comments which came out of it:
Thanks to VLSI Research for this one: the top ten suppliers of semicondsucotr manufacturing equipment in Q1 2010.
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The first industry to squeal was automotive, Nissan closed six car factories because of chip shortages. The second squealer was the telecoms equipment industry with Ericsson saying it had lost $400 million in revenues because of chip shortages. The latest squealer is the smartphone industry.
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50 years ago this year, under the headline 'Computer Languages Are In English', the September 14th 1960 edition of Electronics Weekly, carried the following story:
'OMG it's all happening. The shit has hit the fan again', Ed tells his diary, 'we look like being delinquent on more orders because our assembly, packaging and test house has started to mess us around with short deliveries.'
In the dog days of mid-August it was good of Intel to give us something to talk about by paying $7 billion for a software security firm.
When Hans Snook was setting up the Orange phone network in the
The scale of the destruction wreaked on NXP by its private equity owner KKR was further revealed in NXP's Q2 results.
There was once a chief engineer on a computer development project which founded a new class of computer - the minicomputer.
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It's good to hear of a young chip company pursuing wildly different applications with the same generic technology.
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