The Chance To Bring IC Demand And Supply Into Balance
Was there ever a time when the semiconductor industry could have brought supply and demand into balance?
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Was there ever a time when the semiconductor industry could have brought supply and demand into balance?
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One of the remarkable things about technology evolution is that the TV and the PC have remained separate products despite many attempts to merge them. So what hope has the latest attempt from Google, Intel, Logitech and Sony to make them interchangeable?
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There was once a group of CEOs who got so excited about the prospects for data communications over wireless links that they paid stupid amounts of money to buy spectrum.
What costs $500, has no innovative functions, has been seen by very few people and attracted orders for 120,000 units in the first day it was put on sale?
Thanks to Strategy Analytics for this one - the top seven suppliers of baseband chips for mobile phone handsets.
Big Developments In Toroids
This was a headline 50 years ago this year, when the September 7th 1960 edition of Electronics Weekly pointed up the
Jon Howes, the high-tech entrepreneur and founder of the design company NeUW, has come up with a way to save us from the plague which affects all our lives - the knock on the door on Saturday morning heralding the arrival of the guy who's come to read the meter.
'At a meeting of semiconductor CEOs in Munich,' Ed confides to his diary, ' I meet a very switched on guy who told me he had a new kind of memory technology with ten year data retention and 100,000 write/erase cycles, and licenses were going very inexpensively because they needed a final tranche of development money.'
Everyone knows Q1 is a shitty quarter. Q3 is usually the best quarter, Q4 is the second best quarter, Q2 bumbles along flattish - but Q1 is usually the worst. Well, maybe not Q1 2010.
Don Hoefler, who coined the term
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For donkeys years automatic translation has been five to six years away. In many ways it has been a good example of a Techno-Ponzi scheme - appearing almost within the grasp if technologists, so allowing technologists to raise large sums of development cash to go the last mile.
Continue reading "Machine Translation - Techno-Ponzi? Or A Great Cloud App?" »
There was once a genius engineer who was employed by Zilog, but moonlighted at LSI Logic.
Continue reading "Fable: The Genius Engineer Who Moonlighted" »
I have to say the sheer cheek of BT's latest WiFi dongle scam made me giggle a bit. I bought the dongle from Maplin's to transform my old PC into a bedroom iPlayer.
Like a twit I installed the software which came with the dongle. Then up came a message from BT offering to connect me to my own Hotspot for £5 a day.
Acer is leading the charge in the PC market, growing 21% last year, and taking the No.2 slot from Dell in Q4.
It's good to see innovation taking place in programmables. This is a product area which has remained stuck in a $3 billion market niche for a decade. Silicon Valley start-up TierLogic today announces a route to bringing down programmables' costs which may kick-start growth in the sector.
Continue reading "TierLogic Reduces Cost Of FPGA, ASIC, & FPGA-ASIC Conversion" »
Thanks to www.toptentopten.com for this one - the ten greatest geniuses in the history of the human race:
Energy harvesting from vibration and heat differentials are generating commercial operations. Micropelt, a spin-off from Infineon, and Nextreme Thermal Solutions are converting heat differentials into electricity, while Perpetuum, Lumedyne Technologies and MicroGen are generating electricity from vibrations.
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50 years ago, this year, a story in Electronics Weekly's edition of September 7th 1960 carried this headline. The sub-headline read: 'New British Factory Is World's Largest.'
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'After reading in the papers that Goldman Sachs regularly culls its bottom 10% performers, and remembering from Jack Welch's 'Straight from the Gut' that this was also the practice at GE, I decide this would be a useful discipline to bring to the company', writes Ed in his diary.
This week sees another contender enter the ring for the emerging 3D FPGA market tussle. TierLogic will reveal on Wednesday what it has been working on in stealth mode since 2003.
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