Mannerisms
Dilemmas

Tax

It’s not good to be regarded as Un-American if you’re American. Apple is risking exactly that.  Later today Tim Cook will defend Apple against the charge.

Yesterday, the US Senate charged Apple with using offshore companies to avoid tax -  including companies which Apple claims are not tax…

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ST CEO Wants To Stay On

STMicroelectronics CEO Carlo Bozotti says he would like to stay on when his current three-year employment contract expires next year.
 Asked at ST’s investor day in London yesterday  if he would be continuing as CEO of ST when his contract expires in 2014, Bozotti replied: “My aspiration is…

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ST's New Titanic

ST’s Digital Convergence Group (DCG) is the next ST business to follow the Titanic example set by ST-Ericsson, says the French union UNSA.

UNSA forecasts the ‘possible return of the Titanic.’ ( l’éventuel futur retour du Titanic dans ST : après STE… le groupe DCG’ .

Without radical change…

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Intel's Dilemma

Intel says it wants to get into mobile. Intel also  says it doesn’t want to make ARM cores.

That was the deduction drawn from Altera’s comments, or rather lack of comments, when asked last week whether Intel would be making Altera FPGAs with ARM cores in them when…

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Thinking Like Your Customer, by Wally Rhines

“The next revolution in EDA, and one of the factors that will change the EDA industry in the near future, is embedded software,” Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz last week.

 ”OSes like Android and Linux are going to be the drivers of…

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Intel's Failure

In September 1999, Andy Grove, at that time the chairman of Intel, came to London and announced that Intel had changed its mission statement to become the ‘building block supplier to the Internet economy’ from Intel’s old mission statement which was to be ‘the building block supplier to the…

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Grovel

A grovelling aplogy to all who have kindly tried to comment and been met by a poxy proxy error message. I am very sorry about this. IT’s finest are working on the problem. If it’s any consolation, the move from Movable Type to WordPress is now scheduled for…

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The Flight From National Currencies

If ever the world’s governments could do something to boost the value of an alternative currency, the most potent thing they could do is confiscate deposits of national currencies.

This is very likely the reason why the value of a Bitcoin is now just shy of $150…

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