Mannerisms

After the Ten Best Decisions Ever Made in the Chip Industry http://http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2007/03/ten-best-decisions-ever-made-i.html and another long evening, here are the Ten Worst Decisions Ever Made In the Chip Industry.

The first three are well known, but they have to be in any list of ten worst predictions. Gates now denies he ever said his. But it's part of industry folk-lore.

The ten most over-used cliches commonly used in presentations, and even in conversations, in the industry, are listed below.

Lot of competition for this one. After much sifting, here are the ten silliest applications:

The semiconductor industry has always had to ask itself tough questions, and the questions don't much change. Here are the ten worst.

Luke Collins has very kindly contributed his own Ten Worst Questions For The Chip Industry and, with many thanks to Luke, I reproduce them below:

Tsuyoshi Kawanishi, legendary former CEO of Toshiba Semiconductor, quotes, in his book Chip Management, ten symptoms of Big Company Disease, as compiled by Professor Yoshiya Teramoto of Meiji Gakuin University.