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August 5, 2008

Fable: The Wonderful Microprocessor

There was once a CEO whose company made a wonderful microprocessor. He was so proud of it that he wanted as many people as possible to use it.

 

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August 12, 2008

Fable: The Lonely Engineer

There was once a lonely engineer in Japan who believed that MOS transistors were the future.

 

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August 19, 2008

Fable: Jaw Or War?

 Two empires once fought to gain supremacy over each other.

 

 

 

 

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August 26, 2008

Fable: Putting Arrogance Before Customers

There was once a company which was highly regarded for its technological excellence. One day, one of its products was found to be faulty.

 

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September 9, 2008

The Paralysis Of Fear

There was once a great company where the middle management were afraid to tell the senior management bad news.

 

 

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November 6, 2008

FABLE: One Innovation Too Many

There was once a very clever man who founded a semiconductor company and produced a very special microprocessor, one that had superior performance to anything on the market, but which was quite unlike anything that had been made before.

 

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October 23, 2008

FABLE: The CEO Who Didn't Look Over The Fence

There was once a CEO who asked his CFO: "How much market share do I need to support my investment in this product line". The CFO replied: "Ten per cent".

 

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October 16, 2008

FABLE: The Wise Man Assailed By Fools

There was once a wise man who started a semiconductor company. He understood the industry, and surrounded himself with the best people in his area. They made superior products which could always find markets at good margins.

 

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October 9, 2008

FABLE: The Footsteps Coming Up Behind You

There was once a great chip company which invented a new product category, semi-custom, and dominated the market for it for a decade.

 

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October 2, 2008

FABLE: The Elusive Digital Business

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.

 

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September 25, 2008

FABLE: The Persistent Entrepreneur

There was once a persistent entrepreneur who founded a chip company which became, at the time, the fastest growing company Silicon Valley had ever known. It could produce a chip-set replicating a new version of an IBM PC at the same time as IBM could do it and in fewer chips than IBM could do it.

 

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November 12, 2008

Fable: Don't Get Into What You Don't Understand

At the back end of the '60s a new chip company set out to make MOS memories and microprocessors. It brought out the industry standard 16K DRAM, and led the memory market at the 16k and 64k generations.

 

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November 19, 2008

Fable: The Company Which Made The Chips Inside PCs.

There was once a semiconductor company with a simple, successful strategy: To make all the chips inside a PC except the microprocessor and the memory.

 

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November 28, 2008

FABLE: The Unsuccessful Genius

There was once a genius who made a fundamental building block which ensured fabulous riches for the electronics industry for sixty years.

 

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