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Top 10 disruptive startup tech plays
Peter Clarke
1/23/2013 10:20 AM EST
#10. ARM's first CEO sees startups hustling
Sir Robin Saxby led processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) as CEO from 1991 to 2001 and then for five years as chairman until he retired in 2006. In December 2012 Sir Robin was given a lifetime achievement award by the Global Semiconductor Alliance and discussed in an interview with EE Times how he still loves working with startup companies.
At #10 is ARM's first CEO sees startups hustling in hard times by Rick Merritt.

Sir Robin Saxby: first CEO of ARM and startup enthusiast.
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Sir Robin Saxby led processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) as CEO from 1991 to 2001 and then for five years as chairman until he retired in 2006. In December 2012 Sir Robin was given a lifetime achievement award by the Global Semiconductor Alliance and discussed in an interview with EE Times how he still loves working with startup companies.
At #10 is ARM's first CEO sees startups hustling in hard times by Rick Merritt.

Sir Robin Saxby: first CEO of ARM and startup enthusiast.
Related links and articles:
www.gsaglobal.org
News articles:
An interview with Sir Robin Saxby, chairman of ARM in 2006
Plessey rolls the dice, preps LED wafer fab
Plessey lowers cost of electric-field sensor
Plessey buys Cambridge spin-off for HB LEDs
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daustins
1/25/2013 11:37 AM EST
I am an Anglophile and have been all my life. Still, is it necessary to call a Brit or anyone by a title? Americans do not have nobility or royalty, de jure. Call him, or any other ennobled Brit, by his last name, or first, if you're familiar. As I said, I'm an Anglophile but we don't use fancy titles for Rothchilds and anyone in the Almanach de Gotha.
No reason for an American to fawn over someone, even a cousin.
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R. S. Moore
1/25/2013 11:42 AM EST
But he is brave Sir Robin.
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TJones
1/25/2013 12:36 PM EST
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
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trm1945
1/25/2013 12:53 PM EST
Hello there, what's your name?
"My name is Pedro."
Pedro. That's Mexican, isn't it?
No, ees Swees. Theese way we don offend no buddy."
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hari.tadepalli
1/25/2013 1:00 PM EST
Appreciate these techonology development insights. But, . . ., one quarter column worth of reading material in each click? My 1920 x 1080 laptop screen can fit at least six of these slides in a screenful. I understand the need for sponsors and advertisements; but with all the formatted content on this page, inclidng the ad, occupy less than 50% of my screen, with two large white margins left open on either side. For reading convenience, please consider posting at least two of these slides on each page.
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RAJEEV.KRISHNAMOORTHY_#1
1/25/2013 1:15 PM EST
I completely agree with the comment about the irritating format. I frequently stop reading articles because I get turned off. In this case, I stopped after just a couple of slides.
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William Miller
1/28/2013 2:59 AM EST
Agree. Slides are not convenient for reading..
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jjgray
1/28/2013 6:39 AM EST
Agree! These articles always prick my interest and then prick my bubble as I recognise the tedious "1 of 10" format.
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TJones
1/25/2013 2:20 PM EST
I, on the other hand, enjoy clicking once for each word in the article.
This is especially effective on slower browsers, where the densely-populated and expertly-coded EET web page takes torturous seconds to load and I stop reading the article, but am _sure_ to read the advertisements, v e r y s l o w l y.
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alex7ko
1/27/2013 7:57 AM EST
I used to click "Print" when reading such multi-page articles as this.
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hari.tadepalli
2/5/2013 2:22 AM EST
Thanks for the suggestion. I missed the tip. Yes, clicking print takes you to an ad-free version with all the 10 slides on the same page. Some websites don't allow this, but works in EETimes.
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joyhaa
1/30/2013 3:15 PM EST
at least there should be a quick jump-to list for the 10 items.
also, on item 7 for servergy.com, I think they're using Freescale silicon, not sure why IBM was mentioned there.
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John_Galt
2/5/2013 10:51 AM EST
I read the Cyclos white paper with great interest. The resonant concept is simple but it may be too simple. The white paper focuses heavily on clock tree power and skew - to be sure these are vitally important aspects of IC design - but so is jitter. In certain applications jitter can be a show-stopper and my engineering sense tells me that a parallel resonant tuned clock tree (being of high impedance) would be very susceptible to jitter generated from crosstalk.
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selinz
2/12/2013 2:13 PM EST
Perhaps a drop-down menu (similar to those used in product reviews) that enable jumping to an arbitrary page would make the format less irritating.
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