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Micron CEO Steve Appleton who died at the weekend was unique. No other semiconductor CEO started his career as working as a production machine operator.

In the 19^th century, Africa was dubbed  'The Dark Continent' and night-time satellite pictures of Africa show it is not a misnomer. But no one has done anything about it until now.

Japan gave us all something last week - the example of the Fukushima Fifty.

I have to say I do miss seeing, and hearing, Pasquale Pistorio on the semiconductor scene. He's a creator of energy and a force for good in the world.

The loveliest people in the world come from Louisiana. The thought came to me as the lady in the filling station tactfully explained that the Holiday Inn I'd booked was in Lafayette Indiana, not, as I had thought, Lafayette, Louisiana. She found us a nice Hilton down the road.

It's very good to hear that Pasquale Pistorio, the great former CEO of STMicroeletronics, will be publicly interviewed at the International Electronics Forum in Geneva the week after next.

There can’t be anything much more important, or more ambitious, than preserving the intellectual legacy of an entire country. This is what Bill Gates is seeking to do with a programme to assist displaced Iraqi scholars.

One of the humbling things about the Americans is their incredible generosity which is very different to anything we see in Europe.