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         <title>The Mischievous Manoeuvrings Of Carl Icahn</title>
         <description><![CDATA[If you want to cause trouble in the Old Folks Home you drop your dinner on the floor or switch the communal TV to Red Hot Dutch. &nbsp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>The Ten Most Powerful Computers</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Thanks to Top500 for this one - the ten most powerful computers on the planet:...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>CSR-Zoran Not In Top Ten Yet</title>
         <description><![CDATA[CSR takes over Zoran and says it is now a top ten fabless company. &nbsp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Come Into Semiconductors - The Future&apos;s Fine!</title>
         <description><![CDATA['Come Into Semiconductors The Future's Fine!' &nbsp; 50 years ago today, this was the headline on an advertisement in Electronics Weekly's edition of February 22nd 1961. &nbsp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Apology: Lost Comments</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Some genuine comments have failed to get past our spam filter and for this I aplogise most sincerely.&nbsp; It's your comments,&nbsp;not&nbsp;the posts, which contribute most of the interest&nbsp;in the site, so I hope you'll continue to make them.&nbsp; I expect...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Ed Becomes CEO of A Private Equity Owned Company</title>
         <description><![CDATA['No more Mr Nice Guy', writes Ed in his diary, 'that's my resolution for this new job I start&nbsp;tomorrow. Last time out I was too soft. I let that asshole Pat Cook stay far too long as CTO - and...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Will Flexible ASSPs Meet Up With Fixed Function FPGAs?</title>
         <description> With the programmable companies adding more and more fixed functionality to their FPGAs, and the ASSP people making their chips more programmable, when will these two product segments meet in the middle?...</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>When ARM Helped Intel</title>
         <description><![CDATA[ARM's commitment to its partners is one of the strongest shots in its locker. That strength of commitment was established early in the company's history by its founding CEO, Sir Robin Saxby. &nbsp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Turkeys, Eagles and Corpses</title>
         <description> The best comment on the Microsoft-Nokia tie-up was the &quot;Two turkeys don&apos;t make an eagle&quot; remark of Google&apos;s Vic Gundotra....</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Fable: Fate Is Blind</title>
         <description><![CDATA[33 years ago there was a gifted memory design team who got poached, then re-poached, and eventually set up as a separate company by a friend of&nbsp; the team leader whose father was a billionaire who had made his money...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Altera&apos;s Backing UK Engineering Talent</title>
         <description><![CDATA[ A solid endorsement of UK systems engineering knowledge is implicit in Altera's decision to recruit UK designers for its systems solutions engineering group at High Wycombe. Altera will expand the group by&nbsp;33%, representing 17 new designers....]]></description>
         <link>http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2011/02/alteras-backing-uk-engineering.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>The CEO Talks Bollox As The Share Price Collapses</title>
         <description><![CDATA[ Amazing the bollox these top chaps talk. Here's the new boss of Nokia saying in Barcelona that Nokia's battle with Apple and Android is 'a war of ecosystems'. Silly ass&nbsp;- it's a war&nbsp;of phones....]]></description>
         <link>http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2011/02/the-ceo-talks-bollox-as-the-sh.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Top Ten Spenders On ICs In 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The top ten spenders on ICs in 2010 were: &nbsp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>NXP Misses Out On 30% Growth year.</title>
         <description>The last time I reported that NXP had failed to grow in a 30%+ industry growth year, I was told that the proper comparison should have been between Q3 2009 (a very bad quarter for the industry) and Q3 2010...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>TI Moves To Manton Lane</title>
         <description><![CDATA['Things went with a swing today when Texas Instruments transferred to their new factory at Manton Lane, Bedford.' &nbsp; So, 51 years ago today, starts a story in Electronics Weekly's edition of February 15th 1961 &nbsp;...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2011/02/moving-day-for-ti.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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