Comms, Not PC, Driving IC Industry
“It is not the PC driving the up-cycle but communications solutions embedded in silicon,” said Wilf Corrigan, Founder and CEO of LSI Logic in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 18th 2000. The...
View ArticleNew Name For EC Chip Programme
The only thing wrong with the new 100 billion euro programme to get Europe back to a 20% share of the world semiconductor market is its name. ‘New European Industrial Strategy for Electronics’...
View ArticleAvoid Politics
Pasquale Pistorio, who drove ST from revenues of $100 million to $8.5 billion, had a great business training – as a salesman for Motorola Semiconductor in its glory days. It taught him a key lesson –...
View ArticleEU Co-Operation Will Win In Semis, says Ploss.
European co-operation is the best way forward for the semiconductor industry, says Dr Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Infineon. “If global industrial standards are to continue to come from Europe, we need to...
View ArticleEurope’s Plan For 20% World Semiconductor Market Share
The European Leaders Group (ELG) has now produced its report outlining how to achieve the ambition of EC vp Neelie Kroes that Europe should attain 20% world market share in the semiconductor industry....
View ArticleEnabling Another Generation Of Hi-Tec Competitiveness
I always thought Neelie would get her way. The redoubtable lady who slapped a billion euro fine on Intel and who has almost abolished the nefarious roaming charge is not to be trifled with. Once she’d...
View ArticleFlaky, Ineptly Managed Euro Threatens Us All
The Euro is killing Europe, says a Fellow of All Souls. “If the euro is eventually abandoned, historians 50 years from now will wonder how it ever came to be introduced in the first place,” says Kevin...
View ArticleInfineon Snubs Europe
The CEOs of Europe’s Big Three chip companies have been in a jam for the last year. In May 2013, EC vp Neelie Kroes announced her goal for Europe to take a 20% share of the world chip market. She got...
View ArticleGame On For FD-SOI
Bagging up the world’s second largest chip company to be its FD-SOI foundry is a great coup for STMicroelectronics and it’s COO Jean-Marc Chery. No one can now say that the future of the chip business...
View ArticleTime Up For EU?
Has the EU served its purpose? For 70 years the Union has kept the peace in Europe and that is it’s greatest, some would say only, achievement The huge amounts of money expended on the EU are worth it...
View ArticleReding Resists US Attempts to Curtail European Freedoms
The EU will not accept any moves by the Americans to water down rules about the collection of individual personal information by companies, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said today in...
View ArticleKrah Krah Bar, Vienna
Krah–Krah www.krah–krah.atRabensteig 81010 Innere Stadt, Wien, Austria+43 1 5338193 “Central Vienna has the Krah Krah bar, Rabensteig 8,1010 Wien”, writes our correspondent, ” very fine and big...
View ArticleBushe’s Bar, Baltimore, West Cork
Bushe’s Bar Baltimore West Cork Ireland Our correspondent writes: ‘I’d like to kick off the Irish section by recommending a lovely seaside pub in Baltimore, West Cork called Bushe’s Bar. It’s a cozy,...
View ArticleHausbrauerei Alstadthof, Bergstrasse, Nuremberg
Hausbrauerei Altstadthof Bergstrasee 19-21, 90403 Nuremberg tel: 49 (0) 9 11-2 44 98 59, email: info@Hausbrauerei-Altstadthof.de, www.Hausbrauerei-Altstadthof.de Dick Selwood writes: “A micro-brewery...
View ArticleTegernsee Brauhaus, near Munich
Tegernsee Brauhaus, Schlossplatz 1 83684 Tegernsee Germany Telephone : 08022 4141 Web : http://www.braustuberl.de Thanks very much indeed to Alan Hutton for this one. Alan says: “Tegernsee beer is...
View ArticleBrewPub København, Copenhagen, Denmark
BrewPub Vestergade 29 1456 København K Denmark Tel : +45 3332 0060 http://www.brewpub.dk/index.php?id=english Alan Hutton of Gennum, who found this little gem, writes: “Being Scottish I was...
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