The response of the Japanese to the March 11 2011 earthquake won the admiration of the world. No company was more admired than Renesas whose semiconductor manufacturing capacity was cut in half by the disaster.
By March 14th one Renesas quake-affected plant had re-opened; 11 days later two…
Micron CEO Steve Appleton who died at the weekend was unique. No other semiconductor CEO started his career as working as a production machine operator.
That experience made Micron the lowest cost producer in the DRAM industry. Micron’s costs were consistently lower than the Koreans’ costs and it was…
In the 19th century, Africa was dubbed ’The Dark Continent’ and night-time satellite pictures of Africa show it is not a misnomer. But no one has done anything about it until now.
LEDs could be the answer to Africa’s darkness. The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation…
Japan gave us all something last week – the example of the Fukushima Fifty.
In a world of selfish bankers, bonus-chasing executives and expense-fiddling politicians, a supreme example of selflessness makes us feel better about being human.
And we all need to think better of the human race after…
I have to say I do miss seeing, and hearing, Pasquale Pistorio on the semiconductor scene. He’s a creator of energy and a force for good in the world.
He gave a run-down on the development of renewable energy sources to the Maltese press earlier this week, and…
The loveliest people in the world come from Louisiana. The thought came to me as the lady in the filling station tactfully explained that the Holiday Inn I’d booked was in LafayetteIndiana, not, as I had thought, Lafayette, Louisiana. She found us a nice Hilton down the road.
Everywhere…
It’s very good to hear that Pasquale Pistorio, the great former CEO of STMicroeletronics, will be publicly interviewed at the International Electronics Forum in Geneva the week after next.
Pistorio has that effect, which leaders have, of energising people. Andy Grove, the great ex-CEO of Intel, has the…
There can’t be anything much more important, or more ambitious, than preserving the intellectual legacy of an entire country. This is what Bill Gates is seeking to do with a programme to assist displaced Iraqi scholars.
Gates’ charitable foundation is putting $5m into fellowships at universities outside Iraq to…