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.

Thanks to Future Horizons for these, the ten most difficult questions facing the semiconductor industry in 2008:

It is a long-held semiconductor industry tenet that mergers and takeovers don't work. Here are the ten worst performing mergers in the industry's history.

The greatest leader the semiconductor industry ever had was Bob Noyce, co-inventor of the IC, co-founder and founding CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor, co-founder and founding CEO of Intel, founding CEO of Sematech, known to the industry as: 'The Mayor of Silicon Valley'.

Thanks to the BBC for this one. Here they are, the ten most dangerous programming errors:

The ten gloomiest forecasts for the 2009 semiconductor market ranging from a 28 per cent decline forecast by Future Horizons to a 15 per cent decline forecast by Goldman Sachs are:

Thanks to security group NCC for this one. Here they are the top ten security balls-ups last year:

Most of human-kind suffers under one delusion or another or several. Here are the ten worst delusions:

You love it. You hate it. It delights you and it drives you mad with rage and despair. Here are The Ten Most Annoying Things About Technology:

Well this certainly proves the American sense of humour is alive and well. Thanks to Fortune for it - the ten most stupid apps in the Apple iPhone Apps Store:

Thanks to Rene Penning de Vries, chief technology officer of NXP Semiconductors, for this one - the top ten challenges facing society today:

Thanks to ODDEE for this one. Car companies' marketing teams have dropped some howlers in naming car models by failing to do due diligence on  the meanings of those names in different languages. Here are the ten worst:

The most insane semiconductor business sector is, of course, the DRAM sector. DRAM capex in relation to DRAM revenues has always been crazy, but the ten years in which the relationship between capex and revenue was at its most unbalanced were the last ten years:

Here they are: The Ten Worst Techie Christmas Presents: