http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/ Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners en Copyright 2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:51:27 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss '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... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/ed-and-the-new-memory-technolo.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/ed-and-the-new-memory-technolo.html Ed The Serial CEO Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:51:27 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/lets-hear-it-from-the-ceos.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/lets-hear-it-from-the-ceos.html Markets Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:44:20 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/when-fairchild-fired-people-ov.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/when-fairchild-fired-people-ov.html yarns Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:42:54 +0000 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... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/machine-translation---techno-p.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/machine-translation---techno-p.html R&D Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:35:08 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/fable-the-genius-engineer-who.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/fable-the-genius-engineer-who.html Fable Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:45:40 +0000 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... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/the-cheekiest-bit-of-dongle-bo.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/the-cheekiest-bit-of-dongle-bo.html Wireless Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:47:58 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/acer-my-part-in-its-success.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/acer-my-part-in-its-success.html Computers Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:07:37 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/tierlogic-reduces-cost-of-fpga.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/tierlogic-reduces-cost-of-fpga.html FPGA Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:46:30 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/top-ten-geniuses.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/top-ten-geniuses.html Ten Best . . . . . Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:57:55 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/micropelt-a-spin-off-from-infi.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/micropelt-a-spin-off-from-infi.html Nanotechnology Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:45:40 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/printed-circuits-produced-by-a.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/printed-circuits-produced-by-a.html Memory Lane Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:34:10 +0000 '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... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/ed-gets-tough-with-the-sales-g.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/ed-gets-tough-with-the-sales-g.html Ed The Serial CEO Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:40:21 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/a-new-contender-for-3d-fpga-em.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/a-new-contender-for-3d-fpga-em.html FPGA Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:29:42 +0000 The prime mover in getting AMD founded was not Jerry Sanders but Jack Gifford. Gifford, 28 years old when he left Fairchild, couldn't raise the money to get the company started.... http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/when-jack-gifford-threw-jerry.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/when-jack-gifford-threw-jerry.html yarns Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:42:01 +0000 http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/is-450mm-a-dead-duck.html http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2010/03/is-450mm-a-dead-duck.html Delusions Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:58:01 +0000