Video tribute to Ed Iacobucci posted
See this mug? It is from the early days when Microsoft and IBM worked together to produce a pre-emptive multitasking operating system – that is to say, OS/2.Ed Iacobucci, recently deceased, was...
View ArticleIntel plays the philanthropy card again
Chip giant Intel – the major purveyor of handbags for all – is now painting itself as a philanthropist and portraying itself as a major force for educating young women.In a remarkable advertisement...
View ArticleIntel to fire entire PR team
Impeccable sources inside Intel inform TechEye that its freshly hatched CEO Brian Krzanich is about to fire the entire PR team in a bid to turn the company’s public image round as the Intel Developer...
View ArticleKnackered Microsoft buys knackered Nokia phones
Failing Microsoft has bought failing Nokia's mobile business in a move that has surprised nobody. Chief executive Steve Ballmer trousered up over $7 billion in a last desperate bid to make Windows a...
View ArticleOxford Uni holds Silicon Valley 2013 bash
In Oxford, there’s a building which was the original home of Research Machines. Although Cambridge is more associated with technology than Oxford, the university is making strenuous attempts to fix...
View ArticleThe CPU’s reign as Czar is over
You can forget about CPUs and the future depends on the cooperation of different engines on SoCs, said Tony King-Smith, EVP marketing, Imagination Technologies here in Dublin todayKing-Smith of...
View ArticleIreland beats the Europack at inward investment
Barry O’Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland, opened up the proceedings for the IEF 2013 here in Dublin. Corporation tax is only 12 percent here, and there’s only four million or so people live in the Emerald...
View ArticleNvidia researcher says 450nm wafers are way overdue
A major problem for the IC industry is design process interaction and there are other problems associated with nodes less than 20 nanometres. That’s how John Chen, a senior research scientist at...
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Crocus springs to capture MRAM market
Crocus Nano Electronics is building a production facility in Russia and has a manufacturing agreement with Chinese foundry SMIC. It has a licence agreement with IBM for 65/45nm MLUs (memory logic...
View ArticleMove over, Moore’s Law
Compound semiconductors are used in satellites and fibre optics and connectivity is the name of the game. That’s according to Drew Nelson, CEO of IQE. According to Nelson, IQE has 650 staff at 11...
View ArticlePetrol powers mobiles across African continent
Three out of the seven billion people on the planet still lack basic services, said Andile Ngcaba, the CEO of investment firm Convergence. And that’s having an impact on the way people use...
View ArticleNeelie Kroes talks up European tech initiative
Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for digital agenda, made a cameo appearance here at IEF 2013, in the initiative dubbed the Airbus of Chips.In a short video, she said Europe had to pool its...
View ArticleTSMC: forget PCs
Yee-Chaung See, senior director of R&D at TSMC confirmed what we all really know – mobiles and tablets rule and PCs are on the way out.He said that figures showed that people use their smartphones...
View ArticleBlade Runner replicants? Well, not quite yet
Robots are used across different industries and in the armed forces, but Ram Ramamoorthy said that it’s really the defence sector that’s driving most applications. Of course the film Blade Runner is...
View ArticleSilicon crunch "around the corner"
Malcolm Penn, CEO of chip analyst Future Horizons, gave his annual rundown on the semiconductor market at the IEF2013 in Dublin, and he had some warnings of what the industry should expect. The...
View ArticleGet ready to buy your last light bulb ever
Plessey, for people of a certain age, is a name to conjure with and being of a certain age, well blow me down because the outfit is still going, albeit in a different form.Michael Le Goff, the CEO of...
View ArticleMicrosoft continues to touch our hearts
Software behemoth Microsoft has also been in the forefront of hardware almost forever - hey don't forget the mouse. Although it’s been a little bit late to the game with tablets and that, it has...
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Moore’s Law gets very warped in the sub 20nm era
After all the talk of “innovation”, Walden (Wally) Rhines), chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, posed many questions about the future of semiconductors in the post 20 nanometre era at IEF2013. He...
View ArticleIntel lays claim to the internet of fangs
After realising that it’s a bit behind the rest of the semiconductor world, Chipzilla (tick: INTC) has rolled out some marchitecture and claiming it’s still on the roadmap – especially about the...
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PC sales continue to slump
The third quarter was always a boom period for PC manufacturers but it looks as though the mould is broken as Gartner released details of shipments during the period.Shipments fell by 8.6 percent in Q3...
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