Shifts in top 20 global semicon rankings

If the recent preliminary results released by IC Insights is anything to go by, there have been some movements among the top 20 semiconductor companies of the world during H1-2007. This is best illustrated by the table below. While the top three — Intel, Samsung and TI, retain their positions, ST and Toshiba have exchanged

Outlook for global telecom: 2013 year of LTE?

Stoke Inc. is an established player in LTE security, commercial Wi-Fi and LTE enablement, and is already engaged research into small cell signaling issues. It will be displaying a range of solutions for the global telecom industry at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. Outlook for telecom in 2013 First, I asked

Semiconductor supply chain dynamics: Future Horizons @ IEF2011

The last decade heralded a dramatic transformation in supply chain dynamics, driven by the complexity challenge of staying on the More Moore curve. On the demand side, the high cost of fabs persuaded almost all integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to use foundries for their leading-edge wafer supply. The ever-increasing process complexity and its negative impact

Reference architecture — starting point to build and optimize cloud infrastructure

Rekha Raghu, Strategic Program Manager, Intel, Software and Services Group, discussed some reference architecture (RA) case studies. Intel Cloud Builders program is a reference architecture (RA) — a starting point from where to build and optimize cloud infrastructure. The RA Development Process takes anywhere from two to three weeks. It involves exploration, planning, integration, testing and

EDA360 unplugged with Cadence’s Jaswinder Ahuja

Following the announcement of the EDA360 last week, I managed to get in touch with Jaswinder Ahuja, corporate vice president and managing director, Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd. We discussed a variety of topics such as why the EDA industry is at the crossroads, EDA360 unplugged, the integrators vs. creators concept, the IP stack

EDA360 to help integrators close profitability gap!

Cadence Design Systems laid out its EDA360 vision last week — what it says is ‘a new vision for the semiconductor industry’. The EDA360 vision paper says: “Today, systems and semiconductor companies are undergoing a disruptive transformation so profound that even the best-known companies will be impacted. The EDA industry now stands at a crossroads

Cadence’s Lip-Bu Tan on global semicon, EDA and Indian semicon industry

Here is an Outlook 2010 report on the global semiconductor industry, as well as the EDA industry, and a look at what lies ahead for India. Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO, Cadence Design Systems Inc., who was recently in India during the CDNLive event, is of the opinion that the global semiconductor industry is undergoing

How is PV industry reacting to oversupply conditions?

How is the global PV industry reacting to oversupply conditions? Dr. Henning Wicht — Senior Director and Principal Analyst, iSuppli Corp., and Stefan de Haan — Senior Analyst, Photovoltaics, iSuppli, have attempted to answer a whole lot of questions and provided an outlook on the global solar photovoltaics industry. Propelled by exaggerated growth expectations in

How semicon firms can achieve high performance by simplifying business!

Engineers in the global semiconductor industry have typically have had considerable control of their work. Processes are pretty straightforward, sequential, and logical — and satisfying for an honest day’s work. However, due to the ongoing global economic downturn, many of these engineers are rapidly losing control of more of their professional lives. Caught like the

Rapidly growing local market bring new opportunities for EDA in India

Those following the EDA industry are well aware that its been an industry in some trouble right through this year. If you visited EDA Consortium’s web site, this becomes clear. In Q1-08, the global EDA industry revenue for Q1 2008 declined 1.2 percent to $1,350.7 million compared to $1,366.8 million in Q1 2007. Later, the