Light at the end of the semiconductor tunnel.
Flash and DRAM spot prices up 10% week-over-week at the time when most are sleeping........... ...
Archive for December, 2008
The resurrection of the big three automakers [is it for real ?].
The US’s car companies – GM, Ford and Chrysler have been in trouble before. Notably Chrysler – back in the early 1980′s when they got a whopping $1.5 Billion dollar loan [Chrysler got the loan approved in 1979, and financed in early 1980] – and appointed Lee Iacocca as the Chairman/spokesman. Chrysler paid off the ...
Apple/WalMart deal – aimed at the G1-Phone/Android!
Recently, Apple did not announce that they would be selling their iPhone at WalMart. In fact, the San Jose Mercury news said that a $99 4-GB version would be sold at the #1 retailer – before Christmas; and the leading rumor site for all things Apple countered with “only the $198 8-GB version will be available at ...
Atmel’s most valuable business unit.
I worked in Atmel from 1994 to 1998 – in their [now merged into ASIC] Programmable Logic Group. George Perlegos was the CEO and most of the people at Atmel loved him – since he had founded the company in 1984 – with no venture funding in the early days [he/Atmel did get venture funding ...
Some Financial Humor.
With the meltdown on Dalal Street [the Mumbai Stock Exchange], it’s important for even ordinary citizens to understand the terminology bankers and brokers use. Here’s a start. CEO — Chief Embezzlement Officer CFO — Corporate Fraud Officer BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. BEAR ...
The most lack-lustre thanksgiving ever.
I came to the United States a month before the crash of 1987 as a student. As I was one of Henry Samueli’s (BRCM) students, I had to spend the better part of my thanksgiving weekend slaving away in a dinghy lab – designing a chip that would never be manufactured. I was getting trained ...