The man known for simultaneously playing Mr. Smooth to Scott McNealy's rough-and-tumble persona, and being at the same time tenacious as a bulldog, while at Sun Microsystems, is stepping...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 30, 2007 02:23 PM in Communications

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'The Sandbox Summit: A Playdate With Technology' is a gathering at the Consumer Electrocnics Conference this coming January where organizers take a hard look at the future of fun....

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Posted by Nic Mokhoff on Nov 28, 2007 11:50 AM in Consumer

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Why was Verizon Wireless so adamantly opposed to Google's initiative with the Federal Communications Commission to open up phone networks with application programming interfaces to be used by third...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 27, 2007 10:37 AM in Communications

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In early November, I weighed in on the three-pronged Facebook ad campaign and the particularly chilling aspects of the branding effort called "Beacon." Liberal lobbying organization Moveon.org launched a major...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 26, 2007 10:56 AM in Communications

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Hello to those of you beginning to stray back into business blogdom in anticipation of Black Monday, the day we saddle up again after the nice long Thanksgiving weekend. Hope...

Continue reading "Intel's SoC mortar"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 25, 2007 08:37 AM in Computing

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Amazing. Earlier this week in my AMD, Islam and the "Fujitsu Factor" posting I had a humorous link to the Fox News flub that erroneously reported, at first, that it...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Nov 21, 2007 09:35 AM in Going Global

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Thanks to a reader of my EE Times blog for pointing out to me some recent slides from presentations created for financial analysts by Silicon Image, the HDMI chip designer....

Continue reading "Silicon Image builds a PEN"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 20, 2007 10:58 AM in Computing

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To the Editor I think it would be worthwhile to review the effect of MBAs on technology. It's my opinion that MBAs are contributing to a deterioration of education and...

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Posted on Nov 19, 2007 05:35 PM in Crosstalk

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To the Editor One observation: A big part of our problem may be that we try too hard for education equality. ("Engineering education study draws industry fire")The reality is that...

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Posted on Nov 19, 2007 05:21 PM in Crosstalk

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To the Editor I must say, as a recently graduated student (June 2005), I completely agree with Mr. Salzman’s findings. I could not find an engineering job (every job opening...

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Posted on Nov 19, 2007 04:33 PM in Crosstalk

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To the Editor I started to write a long letter concerning my personal experience, with over 40-plus years as an engineer and 25 years in Silicon Valley with more than...

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Posted on Nov 19, 2007 03:57 PM in Crosstalk

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To the Editor I find it interesting that all the naysayers create their own rather suspect reports to come to the conclusion that we need more foreign engineers ("Engineering education...

Continue reading "Just the facts, naysayers"

Posted on Nov 19, 2007 02:35 PM in Crosstalk

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Right wing whacko groups in the U.S. wasted no time in venting their outrage with Abu Dhabi's 8% purchase of AMD stock earlier this week. One AMD investor, said in...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Nov 17, 2007 01:20 PM in Going Global

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Hector Ruiz has been hinting for several quarters that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is putting together a new manufacturing strategy. Ruiz, chairman and CEO of the microprocessor supplier, has refused...

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Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Nov 16, 2007 10:42 AM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee exercised a strange and little-used appendage on the afternoon of Nov. 15 -- a backbone. Despite threats and pleas from the White House, the...

Continue reading "FISA without the phone-company immunity"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 15, 2007 10:20 PM in Communications

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The fall in Austin is sweet and so are all the stories rolling out of the first MoCA conference here. Comcast and Cox suggest they will roll out MoCA networking...

Continue reading "More new players in home nets"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 14, 2007 10:53 PM in Computing

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Don't look now, but here comes the 450-mm era. Hurry! Get on board. The hype has begun!...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 12, 2007 11:21 AM in Semiconductors

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I hope the investment-bank whiners are happy. Sprint Nextel has sold off its airport-based Wi-Fi business to Boingo, it has ended its relationship with Clearwire, and all indications are that...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 12, 2007 11:17 AM in Communications

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Now that data centers are gearing up for 10 Gbit and faster systems, people are starting to wonder how to physically link these boxes. Standard optics are too expensive, Infiniband...

Continue reading "Data centers call the cable guy"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 12, 2007 10:41 AM in Computing

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''Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going?'' Good questions from John Barton, a semi analyst with SG Cowen....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 11, 2007 08:39 PM in Semiconductors

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Good and bad news for fab-tool giant Applied Materials, says Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. Inc....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 11, 2007 08:27 PM in Semiconductors

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What does Atheros have up its sleeves? The WLAN chip maker is growing, with some new parts on the drawing board....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 11, 2007 08:17 PM in Semiconductors

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What's wrong with Quasimodo? I mean DRAM maker Qimonda. It is down, but not out....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 11, 2007 08:00 PM in Semiconductors

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The analysts are. Finally, though, it's sinking in within the investment community that weakness in the economy could and would most likely hurt the information technology sector. How else can...

Continue reading "Cisco isn't the odd duck"

Posted by Bolaji Ojo on Nov 8, 2007 01:14 PM in OJO-Mojo Tech Report

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My cheap little snipe against Mark Zuckerberg in Monday's blog might lead you to think I'm not a Facebook fan. And you'd be right. Facebook needs to adopt Google's...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 7, 2007 10:08 AM in Communications

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As my colleague Loring Wirbel notes in his story today, "the Open Handset Alliance is not the first attempting to drive Linux to the handset."...

Continue reading "Can Google herd the Linux cats?"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 6, 2007 02:45 AM in Computing

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Poor Dick Parsons could never live down that AOL deal of seven years ago. The chief executive of Time-Warner Communications made the expected announcement late in the afternoon of Nov....

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 5, 2007 05:26 PM in Communications

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Media wonks were waiting with bated breath (or maybe yawns) for an anticipated Monday morning announcement Nov. 5 on a new effort from Google called Open Handset Alliance. Key wireless...

Continue reading "OHA: Unlocking iPhones more important than selling gPhones"

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Nov 5, 2007 10:22 AM in Communications

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In my last post I said that India's rising profile as a global, market-driven economy with an evolving culture of engineering innovation will tip the scales, long term, in favor...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Nov 4, 2007 10:47 PM in Going Global

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Don't look now, but venture capital inflow from the U.S. to India in the third quarter edged ahead of China, a significant shift that I expect will continue into next...

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Posted by Richard Wallace on Nov 4, 2007 04:01 PM in Going Global

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In 2006, the worldwide power management IC market reached $18.7 billion, or 8 percent of the total semiconductor market, according to Databeans. What's next?...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 4, 2007 10:54 AM in Semiconductors

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Steven Pelayo, an analyst with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. (HSBC), made some observations on UMC and SMIC....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 4, 2007 10:37 AM in Semiconductors

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Maxim has been a big capex spender in the analog field. Not any more! In fact, the analog guys are slowing in terms of their over capex numbers....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 4, 2007 10:25 AM in Semiconductors

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Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. Inc. (FBR), is bearish about metrology firm Rudolph or RTEC on the exchange....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 4, 2007 10:16 AM in Semiconductors

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''Semiconductor sales in September fell just short of our expectations, but the market still managed quarterly growth of 13 percent over the second quarter,'' says Richard Gordon, an analyst at...

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 4, 2007 10:07 AM in Semiconductors

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The top four foundries -- Chartered, SMIC, TSMC and UMC -- are expected to cut capital spending in 2008, according to Gartner....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Nov 4, 2007 09:50 AM in Semiconductors

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Want to know what one of 46 Intel code names stands for? Intel itself will provide the keys. Go to the new automated relational knowledgebase the company has just launched...

Continue reading "Cracking Intel's code"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 2, 2007 02:48 PM in Computing

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For years, people have been predicting a world of location-based services thanks to a proliferation of GPS embedded in mobile systems. Maybe it will finally happen in 2008....

Continue reading "The year of mobile maps?"

Posted by Rick Merritt on Nov 1, 2007 11:37 AM in Computing

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