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.
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The ten most over-used cliches commonly used in presentations, and even in conversations, in the industry, are listed below.
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Lot of competition for this one. After much sifting, here are the ten silliest applications:
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The semiconductor industry has always had to ask itself tough questions, and the questions don't much change. Here are the ten worst.
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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:
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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.
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Thanks to Future Horizons for these, the ten most difficult questions facing the semiconductor industry in 2008:
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Anyone who writes in asking who made these remarks will get added in at No.11. Here they are, the ten most stupid remarks of the year.
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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.
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Thanks to iSuppli for this one. The top ten companies whose revenues declined the most in 2008, compared to 2007, are:
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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'.
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Thanks to the BBC for this one. Here they are, the ten most dangerous programming errors:
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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:
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Thanks to security group NCC for this one. Here they are the top ten security balls-ups last year:
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