Sun Microsystems stepped on plenty of TOEs (read TCP offload engines) when the company announced its Neptune networking card and ASIC. Now the TOE makers are kicking back....

Continue reading "The TOEs kick back"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 28, 2007 08:50 PM in Computing

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The plan was inspired, if not flawed: BenQ Corp. would vault onto the global stage by taking over No.5 handset maker Siemens Mobile. The endgame, however, will be ignominious: the...

Continue reading "Going once, twice ... BenQ-Siemens to hit eBay"

Posted by Mike Clendenin on Feb 28, 2007 04:52 AM in China

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When did AMD become the 'Britney Spears' of the electronic industry and the subject of the tawdry chatter now making the rounds on Silicon Valley rumor mills, like this one...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 27, 2007 03:56 PM in Going Global

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The sudden rush of BenQ Mobile GmbH assets to eBay and corporate auction sites is unquestionably a sad implosion tale. But are there lessons in execution that everyone in the...

Continue reading "BenQ, We Hardly Knew Ye"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 27, 2007 01:29 PM in Communications

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Talk about bad memories. NAND is still down in the dumps. DRAM is also down....

Continue reading "Dataquest down on DRAM, NAND"

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 27, 2007 09:46 AM in Semiconductors

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Well, Big Al Gore won something national last night that didn't require the vote of his home state of Tennessee, an Oscar for best feature documentary. And his sidekick, Leo...

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Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 26, 2007 05:24 PM in Industry

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Only Nixon could go to China, but any right wing nut job with a hostile trade technology agenda can get Bush's ear....

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 26, 2007 04:48 PM in Going Global

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It's open season in PON chip development. This afternoon, Cortina Systems announced it would acquire ImmenStar, a small and quiet developer responsible for the EPON MuLAN and EPON/GPON Turandot chip...

Continue reading "PONs, Partners, Predators"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 26, 2007 04:04 PM in Communications

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I hope you all had a chance to see Rick Merritt's front-page story in this week's EE Times, focusing on the Skype petition to the FCC as indicating the wireless...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 26, 2007 10:48 AM in Communications

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What will Texas Instruments do next?...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 26, 2007 09:25 AM in Semiconductors

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I've been on holiday for a week, during which I read another book on the rising economic power of what's become known as Chindia. No doubt these two places have...

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Posted by Mike Clendenin on Feb 26, 2007 05:54 AM in China

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The Green Grid, an ad hoc consortium of eleven companies formally announcing itself Monday, needs members in networking, storage and other disciplines if it is to have the clout it...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 25, 2007 11:06 AM in Computing

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Any hopes that Cadence Design Systems might open its proprietary Skill language were dashed at yesterday's (Feb. 22) EDA "Troublemakers Panel" at DVCon. It appears EDA "openness" only goes so...

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Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 23, 2007 04:26 PM in EDA Software

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If you are into Wi-Fi or WiMax get ready to start writing some checks to Mosaid Technologies Inc. in Ottawa. The company just bought Agere's patents in these areas for...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 23, 2007 01:05 PM in Computing

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The highlight of my recent trip to India to cover the ISA Vision Summit was an unexpected opportunity to reacquaint myself with the planet's most exciting mode of urban transportation...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 23, 2007 12:31 PM in Going Global

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I keep hearing about how Vista will fuel PC growth, thereby propelling the DRAM market. So what's the real scoop?...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 22, 2007 05:00 PM in Semiconductors

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Now that the government of India has formally disclosed the details of its incentives to attract semiconductor manufacturers to India all eyes are on Intel, which has reportedly been leaning...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 22, 2007 04:53 PM in Going Global

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It did not take Marvell long to ditch Intel and go with TSMC....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 22, 2007 04:52 PM in Semiconductors

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Applied Materials has exited the ion implanter market. So what's next for the chip-equipment giant?...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 22, 2007 04:24 PM in Semiconductors

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Here's a possible bad sign: Gartner/Dataquest is lowering its chip forecast in 2007....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 22, 2007 04:22 PM in Semiconductors

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Perspective is all about where you sit. I was sitting on the Long Island Railroad train bound for work in Manhasset, N.Y., today reading the Wall Street Journal. "Global Economy...

Continue reading "Helmets on, everyone"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 22, 2007 10:58 AM in Industry

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Bob Herbert had a nice column in the NY Times today regarding a problem in 24/7 broadband hyper-information that has reinforced itself in spades in recent weeks: the tendency...

Continue reading "A Broadband Cornucopia of Silliness"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 22, 2007 10:08 AM in Communications

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Consolidation in the design for manufacturability (DFM) market took a new twist Wednesday (Feb. 21) as Blaze DFM merged with fellow startup Aprio Technologies. But the question remains — is...

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Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 21, 2007 11:22 PM in EDA Software

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There good news for technology companies seeking early stage funding for new ventures: Venture capital backed companies are being valued at the highest level since 2000....

Continue reading "VC's 'awash in capital'"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 21, 2007 03:33 PM in Going Global

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If the only tool on your work belt is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For too many electronics companies and their communications arms today this manifests itself as...

Continue reading "It takes more than a hammer"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 20, 2007 05:15 PM in Going Global

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Translation: Hewlett-Packard is putting its microdisplay TVs using the digital light processing technology from Texas Instruments on end-of-life status. The move says as much about HP's status in TV as...

Continue reading "HP EOLs TI's DLP"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 20, 2007 11:53 AM in Computing

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Today's hot rumor (Feb. 19) is that design for manufacturability (DFM) startup Blaze DFM is buying fellow startup Aprio Technologies. I checked with Blaze, and I'm not getting "no" for...

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Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 19, 2007 04:26 PM in EDA Software

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Telephony Online had a nice little scoop last Friday that I didn't see elsewhere: Avici Systems, the scrappy but struggling core router company, has created a new business entity called...

Continue reading "Avici Creates Soapstone to Push PBT"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 19, 2007 04:23 PM in Communications

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I felt proud last year when my little home town in Michigan was playing host to a municipal experiment in Broadband Over Powerline. Somehow, though, I was not surprised to...

Continue reading "The Tougher Side of Power (and Broadband) to the People"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 19, 2007 12:06 PM in Communications

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The question has been raised: is the Liberty library format, available as open source but still owned by Synopsys, really an open standard?...

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Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 16, 2007 08:30 PM in EDA Software

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If Joel Weiss gets his way, hard disk drive makers will no longer be the Rodney Dangerfield of the computer industry. The new president of the disk maker's trade group...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 16, 2007 12:33 PM in Computing

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Mobility defines the very essence of the global workspace today, continuously illustrated by the ebb and flow, flexibility and ease with which knowledge workers constantly move around the world....

Continue reading "Voting with your feet"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 16, 2007 04:22 AM in Going Global

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It's been all quiet on the private-equity front for a few months but that may be about to change. More people have been asking me about the trend. And that's...

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Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 15, 2007 06:46 PM in Industry

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John Cooley has been soliciting "edgy" questions for the annual EDA "bigwigs" panel at the Design and Verification Conference (DVCon). Some come with a clear message: stop the infighting over...

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Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 15, 2007 04:41 PM in EDA Software

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Almost lost among the Pentagon's plans for broadband communications and intelligence from space platforms -- Transformational Satellite, Future Imagery Architecture, Integrated Overhead SIGINT Architecture -- has been a plan to...

Continue reading "MUOS Sparks a New Australian Flap"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 15, 2007 11:36 AM in Communications

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While ASIC designers are rapidly adopting SystemVerilog, the FPGA world has lagged behind. Still, there are recent signs that interest may be picking up....

Continue reading "FPGAs: SystemVerilog's missing link"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 14, 2007 09:13 PM in EDA Software

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Two announcements this week may be of help to designers who are looking to integrate hard intellectual property (IP) blocks into systems-on-chip. I see them as steps towards defining a...

Continue reading "Judging IP quality and risk"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 13, 2007 06:54 PM in EDA Software

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While were on the subject of ecosystems –and how the growth of the global electronics market is influencing and changing the old Silicon Valley product design and development model (see...

Continue reading "Analyse this"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 13, 2007 12:06 PM in Going Global

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Denver business leaders and the local press are pining for the heady late-1990s days when Colorado was Telecom Central. Level 3 Communications, perhaps the last true Interexchange Carrier "pure play"...

Continue reading "Level3-ing the Playing Field"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 13, 2007 10:25 AM in Communications

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If you have ever tried to transplant wildflowers from a meadow or a field into a house garden you know that certain plants or flowers can't survive the transition from...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 13, 2007 10:07 AM in Going Global

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One of the next big growth areas in computing is in what I'll call personal health computers or PhCs. Like PhDs, they treat your symptoms--only you charge them, they don't...

Continue reading "Here come PhCs: Personal Health Computers"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 13, 2007 12:58 AM in Computing

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IMFT is no flash in the pan. It just has bad luck....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 12, 2007 09:09 PM in Semiconductors

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Chip Estimate Corp. has launched the Prime IP Partner Program to enable centralized access to information about the intellectual-property portfolios of IP providers....

Continue reading "Looking for IP?"

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 12, 2007 08:26 PM in Semiconductors

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What does Future say about the future?...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 12, 2007 08:18 PM in Semiconductors

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There's been a lot of talk about a design for manufacturability (DFM) "deathwatch" in 2007 because of the large number of startups in this area. I think the list will...

Continue reading "DFM "deathwatch" is not what it seems"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 12, 2007 08:07 PM in EDA Software

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The SEMI trade group more or less exited the trade publishing business, but it has now expanded into the market research arena....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 12, 2007 08:06 PM in Semiconductors

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Is geography destiny? Does where you are matter more than anything in your success? These ideas are put forth in a New York Times article by former Wall Street Journal...

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Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 12, 2007 04:29 PM in Industry

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Who is Google Platforms and why do they need deep expertise in board design, backplanes and high-speed signaling?...

Continue reading "Inside the Google server"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 12, 2007 12:01 AM in Computing

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Apple/Disney/Pixar/Consumer Electronics God/Eternal Faith Healer Steve Jobs made a stalwart attempt to get the digital-rights management dialogue reformed. It ain't going over too well....

Continue reading "Jobs getting jobbed"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 9, 2007 06:54 PM in Industry

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I'm running late with this one, but it's come to my attention that Synopsys has no CTO and is not currently planning to appoint a new one. How important is...

Continue reading "Why Synopsys has no CTO"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 9, 2007 05:56 PM in EDA Software

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Perhaps you have to be number one or two to make any money in PCs these days. That's the takeaway from Gateway. The company posted results after close of business...

Continue reading "Size matters in PCs"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 9, 2007 10:25 AM in Computing

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It's been called a Camelot era for consumer electronics, but it's not the best of times for everyone. The once dominant consumer electronics retailer Circuit City said Thursday (Feb. 8)...

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Posted by Dylan McGrath on Feb 9, 2007 02:55 AM in Consumer

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Is there a country on planet Earth today that doesn't want to clone Silicon Valley and make technology fame and fortune part of the national agenda? It's unlikely. And why...

Continue reading "The Global Silicon Rush"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 9, 2007 12:58 AM in Going Global

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The EDA Consortium is helping fund a professorship in honor of Richard Newton. But it's not an electrical engineering professorship — it's about synthetic biology, a new field that could...

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Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 8, 2007 08:22 PM in EDA Software

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Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski brought down the hammer again on his beleagured organization. A company that once had 95,000 employees now has a third of that....

Continue reading "Nortel sheds more weight"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 8, 2007 04:04 PM in Industry

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It was back to the future—and the past--for PC security this week. Bill Gates and Craig Mundie were stumping for hardware-based security in general and the Trusted Computing Group's modules...

Continue reading "Gates vs. Jobs on PC security"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 8, 2007 11:01 AM in Computing

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If ever a collaborative design effort seemed destined to fall into the "too many cooks" cesspool, it's the six-company effort to come up with a joint GPRS+EDGE/HSDPA phone, announced Feb....

Continue reading "Smartphone Design by Committee"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 8, 2007 10:40 AM in Communications

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It was the ole one-two combination. Soon after SigmaTel said it lost $109 million last year, Chinese rival Actions Semiconductor said it was renewing its push into the US market...

Continue reading "Sour note for SigmaTel"

Posted by Mike Clendenin on Feb 8, 2007 07:29 AM in China

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ASML has won an order for a ''pre-production'' extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool from a major Korean memory maker, reportedly Samsung, sources said....

Continue reading "Samsung goes EUV"

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 8, 2007 12:22 AM in Semiconductors

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A posting in the latest E-Mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG) reminded me about the Free Model Foundry, which has been offering free memory, interface and processor models for a number...

Continue reading "Free memory models — the price is right"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 7, 2007 07:11 PM in EDA Software

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The older he gets, the more Steve Jobs makes sense to me. And the older I get, the more the lessons of the Grateful Dead resonate in our hyper-technological era....

Continue reading "Steve Jobs and the Grateful Dead"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 7, 2007 04:22 PM in Industry

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PCI Express, the biggest juggernaut in interconnect technology these days, is officially available as a cabled option for a host of server, consumer and embedded uses. Infiniband, Ethernet and USB...

Continue reading "Express breaks out of the box"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 7, 2007 12:15 PM in Computing

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Judging from reader response, the most interesting item to come out of the DesignCon conference last week was a keynote speech on engineering education. Here's why it's such a hot...

Continue reading "Time to rethink engineering education"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 6, 2007 08:08 PM in EDA Software

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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the liberty of unburdening himself Tuesday, posting his musings on digital rights management (DRM) in an open letter on Apple's Web site. Among other...

Continue reading "Jobs: Don't blame Apple for DRM"

Posted by Dylan McGrath on Feb 6, 2007 06:33 PM in Consumer

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The money well for VC capital for electronics funding in Silicon Valley may be looking parched these days but "there's a tsunami of VC money rolling into Asia Pacific" according...

Continue reading "India is hot! . . .and VCs know it"

Posted by Richard Wallace on Feb 6, 2007 03:32 PM in Going Global

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The amount may be grossly exaggerated but the concept rings true. A class action lawsuit filed January 30 in Austin claims Intel gave Dell what could be politely called volume...

Continue reading "Did Intel pay Dell $1 billion to snub AMD?"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 6, 2007 12:25 PM in Computing

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The most interesting part of Gemalto's Feb. 5 introduction of a USB security device at the RSA Conference was the discussion among executives from Gemalto and VeriSign, along with Economist...

Continue reading "Make No Phishing Assumptions"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 6, 2007 10:36 AM in Communications

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After a successful campaign to enable cheap 2G phones, the world may see the same for 3G phones. Next week, at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, the GSM Association is...

Continue reading "3G for all"

Posted by Mike Clendenin on Feb 5, 2007 11:37 PM in China

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Seven years ago Cypress Semiconductor started selling access to its development fab in San Jose, called SVTC. Last week the company sold it outright to private equity folks. Hindsight's always...

Continue reading "The sale of SVTC"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 5, 2007 07:12 PM in Industry

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Computer scientist Jim Gray is still missing at sea, four days after the Coast Guard called off its search for him. But that doesn't mean the search is over. Indeed,...

Continue reading "The search continues for Jim Gray"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 5, 2007 06:31 PM in Industry

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If FPGA-based high-performance computing (HPC) takes off, the next growth area for EDA tools may be in places where you'd least expect it, like investment banks. But current FPGA design...

Continue reading "Will investment bankers become EDA users?"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 5, 2007 03:19 PM in EDA Software

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So the Beatles record label and the maker of the iPod have buried the hatchet. I'll believe that when I see "Let It Be" on iTunes....

Continue reading "They love Jobs, yeah, (no), yeah, yeah"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 5, 2007 11:29 AM in Computing

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That's the buzz on the street. Sources close to the company confirm SMIC is looking into this, but hasn't made a decision yet and probably won't do so for some...

Continue reading "SMIC mulls IPO in China"

Posted by Mike Clendenin on Feb 4, 2007 10:33 PM in China

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Here are my mid-term grades for IBM's ''fab club,'' the high-profile group that consists of AMD, Chartered, Freescale, Infineon, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 4, 2007 12:29 PM in Semiconductors

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The reality of IC design for manufacturability (DFM) hit home at the DesignCon conference Jan. 31, where panelists talked about the slow and gradual ramp-up of DFM tools and techniques....

Continue reading "A slow ramp-up for DFM"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 2, 2007 06:40 PM in EDA Software

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The researchers over at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are feeling their Wheaties. Turns out the Energy Efficient Ethernet project they helped kick off at the IEEE is just the tip...

Continue reading "Pinching power everywhere"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Feb 2, 2007 03:07 PM in Computing

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It's been a quite a week and one in which I've fallen down on this blog. But we've been engaged in putting the finishing touches on the print publication's new...

Continue reading "The week that was"

Posted by Brian Fuller on Feb 2, 2007 01:40 PM in Industry

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Many companies complain about the limited available market for EDA, but not many use EDA as a springboard to something else entirely. Celoxica is attempting to do just that with...

Continue reading "Can Celoxica "escape" from EDA?"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 1, 2007 06:52 PM in EDA Software

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The little Copenhagen company Tpack, that implements FPGA and board-level packet gateways for OEMs, will be announcing another Provider Backbone Transport partner on Feb. 5, this time from the optical...

Continue reading "Church of the PBT"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Feb 1, 2007 11:33 AM in Communications

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The US-Taiwan Business Council is calling for the Taiwan government to swiftly complete the application process for The Carlyle Group's proposed purchase of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), the world's...

Continue reading "Package me softly with her song"

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 1, 2007 02:09 AM in Semiconductors

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The recent destruction of a satellite by a Chinese ICBM renewed concerns over China's military intentions and its ''peaceful'' rise in Asia, according to the US-Taiwan Business Council, a membership-based...

Continue reading "Greater China not so great"

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 1, 2007 02:00 AM in Semiconductors

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It's a ''hold'' rating for O2Micro's shares, says Craig Berger, an analyst from Wedbush Morgan Securities....

Continue reading "O2 for O2"

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Feb 1, 2007 01:55 AM in Semiconductors

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A discussion at a DesignCon panel today (Jan. 31) shed some light on something I've wondered about — why there appears to be so much more interest in C language...

Continue reading "C language design isn't a cultural thing"

Posted by Richard Goering on Feb 1, 2007 12:39 AM in EDA Software

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