http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/ Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners en Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:52:51 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss That was the headline of the cover story in the April 1st 1986 internal Intel newsletter during the worst hit the US semiconductor industry ever took, losing 27,000 jobs, 13 per cent of the electronics jobs in Silicon Valley and... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/japanese-buy-intel-grove-named.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/japanese-buy-intel-grove-named.html yarns Fri, 16 May 2008 14:52:51 +0000 With Qimonda causing Infineon so much grief, why hasn't Infineon got rid of it yet? The question was asked at this week's IET/GSA (Institution of Engineering and Technology/Global Semiconductor Alliance) International Semiconductor Forum at the ExCel conference centre in East... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/infineon-execs-cant-let-go.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/infineon-execs-cant-let-go.html Dilemmas DRAM Eric Mayer Infineon Qimonda Fri, 16 May 2008 06:14:53 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/ief-6-iet-0.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/ief-6-iet-0.html Shenanigans Thu, 15 May 2008 14:54:08 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/apologies.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/apologies.html Dilemmas Thu, 15 May 2008 10:51:58 +0000 Wimax appears to have got the blessing of Sprint's new CEO Daniel Hesse, at least for the time being. Hesse's predecessor as CEO, Gary Forsee, was persuaded to leave allegedly because he was too keen on Sprint's Wimax operation known... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/new-sprint-ceo-positive-on-wim.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/new-sprint-ceo-positive-on-wim.html Wireless Clearwire Daniel Hesse Sprint WiMAX Xohm Thu, 15 May 2008 09:26:02 +0000 Innovation has to return to the semiconductor industry at the transistor level rather than the exploitation of the massive transistor counts made possible by modern scaling, according to Andy Rappaport General Partner at August Capital. Rappaport, who has invested in... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/innovation-has-to-return-to-th.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/innovation-has-to-return-to-th.html Start-Ups August Capital Rappaport scaling transistors Wed, 14 May 2008 13:55:47 +0000 In an era when the semiconductor industry is forming more alliances than at any time in its history, many of which are international alliances, it is salutary to turn to one of Japan's great CEOs, Tsuyoshi Kwanishi, formerly CEO of... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/ten-rules-for-alliances-by-tsu.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/ten-rules-for-alliances-by-tsu.html Ten Best . . . . . Wed, 14 May 2008 05:46:27 +0000 The question reverberating around the chip industry is: Can Intel compete in a market of which it only owns 10 per cent of the customers' customer base?... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/can-intel-succeed-in-wimax-chi.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/can-intel-succeed-in-wimax-chi.html Wireless Tue, 13 May 2008 07:22:33 +0000 The glories of England are its history, countryside and pubs. If you want to wake up to one of England’s most wonderful views stretching thirty miles across the Somerset Levels, where Alfred burnt the cakes, to Glastonbury Tor and the... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/wwwthecowshedinfo.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/wwwthecowshedinfo.html Treats Tue, 13 May 2008 03:37:42 +0000 I needn’t have bothered going to the Dubai desert to find out about the 3G iPhone. Popping down my local High Street produced the same result. The 3G version is out next month in Europe and, in the UK, O2... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/3g-iphone-to-be-sold-by-o2-in.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/3g-iphone-to-be-sold-by-o2-in.html Wireless Mon, 12 May 2008 15:31:02 +0000 In the Dubai desert, a group of semiconductor industry glitterati throw off their suits after the first day of the International Electronics Forum 2008 and and form a blues group.... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/desert-blues.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/desert-blues.html Shenanigans Mon, 12 May 2008 11:33:59 +0000 When the immigration officer leans back in his chair with a bit of a smile and you say Hullo and he says Hullo and, without another word, stamps your passport and hands it back, you know you’re entering a civilized... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/the-bar-at-the-top-of-the-burg.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/the-bar-at-the-top-of-the-burg.html Beer Mon, 12 May 2008 06:03:36 +0000 Intel’s decision to exit the semiconductor memory business, is usually attributed to a conversation between former CEOs Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. But Grove, in his book Only The Paranoid Survive, lays the credit elsewhere.... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/who-saved-intel-by-andy-grove.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/who-saved-intel-by-andy-grove.html yarns Fri, 09 May 2008 14:48:47 +0000 Apple’s coyness in refusing to reveal whether the iPhone it is launching in ten countries shortly is in fact the 3G iPhone has been a waste of time. Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) revealed that it is the 3G version of... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/yes-it-is-the-3g-iphone-in-eur.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/yes-it-is-the-3g-iphone-in-eur.html Wireless Fri, 09 May 2008 01:06:54 +0000 The reason why Samsung, Intel and TSMC announced last week that they were combining to push 450mm wafer manufacturing technology is because no one else wants it, according to Dr Mark Pinto, executive vice president and CTO of Applied Materials,... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/no-one-else-wants-450mm-says-m.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2008/05/no-one-else-wants-450mm-says-m.html R&D Thu, 08 May 2008 14:42:43 +0000