When Steve Jobs was asked to return to Apple for his triumphant second coming, he wavered.
“I talked to people I respected,” Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson, “I finally called Andy Grove.”
Grove told him: “Steve, I don’t give a shit about Apple.”
“I was stunned,” recalled Jobs…
War can result in a clarification of thought. After World War II, Vannevar Bush, an aide to US President Harry Truman, wrote that “the flow of new scientific knowledge must be both continuous and substantial.”
The population at large had seen the most incredible advances in technology brought about during…
Andrew Rickman who made a fortune when Bookham Technology, which he founded, IPO’d in 2000, tells how he got grabbed by the entrepreneurial bug when he worked for an American company.
“First I went to work for GEC, because my father suggested I should go and do something to…
Europe is to lead the world in MEMs it was stated 16 years ago in Electronics Weekly’s edition of November 20th 1996.
‘Micromachining – the art of using semiconductor technology to make tiny electro-mechanical machines – is now in volume production at Temic and Bosch but Europe’s largest micromachining…
As today, so it was over a decade ago – the perennial shortage of engineers.
“The biggest shortage on the planet today is competent engineers,” says Robin Saxby, CEO of ARM. Speaking in November 2000.
“There’s a declining interest in engineering degrees at the very time we’re expanding and…
SOC – a natural evolution or an unprofitable curse? Twelve years ago, at the Electronica Forum of 2000, the top CEOs discussed the issue:
For Pasquale Pistorio, president and CEO of STMicroelectronics, the SOC issue was quite straightforward:
“It’s the natural evolution of the industry,” he said, “you can’t…
There is no confidence to match the confidence on the eve of disaster. Back in December 2000, on the eve of the disaster year of 2001 and the subsequent slow-growth decade, the semiconductor industry’s mood was massively upbeat.
“We’re on allocation for many major products. Everything is…
Back in August 1994, the UK was looking a sad and sorry place, lamented Electronics Weekly.
‘Not so long ago the UK had five world-class semiconductor manufacturers: Marconi Plessey STC Inmos and Ferranti. Now it has GEC-Plessey Semiconductors (GPS) and there are rumours about that its parent GEC…