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Rocky dreams

Sounds reasonableRock development was so far along, I believe it was down to the fab yields for the go/no-go decision. But Sun has always prided itself on having production products ready when they show it off publicly. This always avoided the obvious "vaporware" negative publicity. So if Sun does what...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, fab, right-wing

Discussion threads 2009-09-19

The importance of open source in hardware

When people think of Sun and open source, they usually think of Java. Or Solaris.Personally I think its UltraSparc open source processor, dubbed Niagara, may be more important in the long run. (That's the lay-out of the new chip, from Sun.)ZDNet Asia reports this week that Sun is happy with...

Tags: Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Chip, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Photos: Intel's China chip site

As the chipmaker hosts its developer forum in Beijing, it's also ready to begin construction of a nearby wafer fab.

Tags: Semiconductors, fab, Beijing, chip company, photograph, Intel Corp., chip

Image galleries 2007-04-16

Intel 45nm backed by fab four

Intel 45nm backed by fab fourThe big loser was Texas, not Intel"..Intel appears to have lost about $124 million, according to one report, by not pursuing the Austin fab project..."First, what was demolished was not a "fab", it was a parking garage for crying out loud! Did you work at...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, REAL inflation, Intel Corp., fab, job, DOL

Discussion threads 2007-02-26

Intel 45nm backed by fab four

Intel has had an up and down week of sorts when it comes to processor fabrication plants. The company’s ill-fated Austin, Texas, fab was demolished on Sunday morning. But on Monday afternoon it announced plans to refit its Fab11X in Rio Rancho, N.M. Fab 11X will become Intel’s fourth 45-nanometer...

Tags: Desktops, multicore processors, notebooks, semiconductors, Servers, Intel, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Is the chip industry rushing into over-capacity again?

Timothy Arcuri, a top chip analyst at Citigroup Investment Research raises a warning in a research note "Maybe Different This Time But We Doubt It." * The chip industry has added more mfg capacity in each of past 3 yrs than any yr in...

Tags: chip, Chip industry, fab, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-01-29

US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is good

I meet with top representatives of the US chip industry every year for an update on their markets and the trends that shape their future. This time around, George Scalise, the head of the Semiconductor Industry Association SIA and top communications execs from Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM and others, provided...

Tags: chip, chip industry, fab, government, leadership, Semiconductor Industry Association, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2006-06-28

AMD to invest $2.5 billion in German factories

AMD to invest $2.5 billion in German factoriesWhy Gemrany and not, oh, Taiwan or China?Germany must surely cost much more, it's a country in the West with people who have living wages. Can't have that...Buy American!That $2.5 billion invested in the US would have saved quite a few jobs.Why...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, fab, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., job

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Telco cowardice and DRM

At a panel on DRM at the recent 3GSM conference in Barcelona, David Birch of Consult Hyperion, a U.K.-based independent IT consultancy, cut loose in rather politically incorrect a fashion against a telecommunication industry that he feels should stand strong against the DRM demands of content companies. From the article:...

Tags: content company, David Birch, digital-rights management, fab, John Carroll, telecommunications, telecommunications company

Blog posts 2006-02-22

Hollywood hails P2P shutdown

Hollywood hails P2P shutdownOh big whoop !It's just like the war on drugs . You take out a drug dealer on a corner , and he will be replaced by two . Who is winning the war ? "In a world without walls and fences , who needs windows and...

Tags: Sales strategy, Peer to peer (P2P), Storage, fab, tech industry, P2P

Discussion threads 2006-02-22

Photos: Inside AMD's German fab

Tags: fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-14

Photos: Inside AMD's German fab

Tags: fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-14

Photos: Inside AMD's German fab

Tags: fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-14

Organic integrated circuit fab to cost $30 mln by 2008

Organic integrated circuits, albeit not of the same performance or density of silicon or compound semiconductors, could be made in printing works costing $30 mln by 2008, according to ABI Research. ABI compares that with a price tag of about $2 bln for commercial silicon semiconductor wafer fab set up.

Tags: fab, Organic

Blog posts 2004-11-24

i-ScanCam Light Edition 3.1 (Windows)

From the developer: "i-ScanCam is a programme of 'Monitoring by video'. In Scan mode, it detects with a Webcam or a Video camera the modifications of the picture (appearance, disappearance, movement, change of light.) and it undertakes the following actions of your choice: backup of the images format jpg with...

Tags: Choice, Fab, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-09-17

i-ScanCam 3.1 (Windows)

From the developer: "i-ScanCam is a programme of 'Monitoring by video'. In Scan mode, it detects with a Webcam or a Video camera the modifications of the picture (appearance, disappearance, movement, change of light.) and it undertakes the following actions of your choice: backup of the images format jpg with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, Choice, Fab

Software downloads 2002-09-13

Additional Resources

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

PAD Fab 2.0 (Mac)

PAD Fab is a free Mac utility that allows software authors to create and maintain PAD Portable Application Description files. PAD files provide a standard way for software authors to provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources. This makes it easy for websites and program libraries to automate program...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Specification, Purple Ghost Software, PAD Fab, Tools & Techniques, XML, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-09-15

Twitter is down...again

DITTO!If Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and all similar "social networking" sites went away overnight, the world would be a much better place. People might actually look up from their screens and realize that there are flesh and blood humans they can converse with in the world! Then they just might begin...

Tags: Social networking, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-08-15

'The Beatles: Rock Band' premieres first in-game video

As hard as I'm trying to not get excited and pulled into the big fuss that surrounds "The Beatles: Rock Band" game, I can't help but smile when I see the Fab Four rocking out in video game form. The first in-game video from "The Beatles:...

Tags: Song, Video, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-06