Beyer remains optimistic but wary about IC marketFreescale financial performance improved on a sequential basis in Q3 but CEO Rich Beyer is still reluctant to project a bullish outlook for the industry due to worries over the strength of the expansion.
Premier Farnell increases Web focusPremier Farnell Asia Pacific president Syed Salman H. talks about the company's focus on the Web and its "element14" Website.
RS CEO takes a bullish view of AsiaIn an interview with
EE Times-Asia, Ian Mason, group chief executive of RS Components, shares his excitement over the Asia Pacific region's promising growth despite the downturn.
Freescale won't go fabless despite downturnFreescale Semiconductor general manager EMEA Steve Wainwright explains why the company will never go fables despite the current market conditions.
Cadence CEO sees opportunities in fabless trendEE Times Europe's Christoph Hammerschmidt caught up Cadence Design Systems Inc. CEO Lip-Bu Tan at the recent CDN Live company event held in Munich, Germany.
AnalogicTech stays 'fabless without foundries'To explain the current issues in analog,
EE Times caught up with Richard Williams, president, CEO and chief technology officer of Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc., a fabless analog chip vendor.
Foundry startup CEO sketches bright futureWhile some observers state the foundry market is already overcrowded and consolidation is in evitable, particularly in Europe, startup Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH co-founder and managing director Michael Lehnert, sketches out a bright future.
Dialog Semi goes beyond power managementDialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli said system power management will remain the company's main area of expertise but disclosed they are also working on low-power display controllers for PMOLEDS as well drivers for MEMS and E-Ink based displays.
TI's Lowe banks on analog to propel company growthTI analog IC division head Gregg Lowe believes the company's future growth will come from the analog business and many industry analysts agree TI will eventually be better known as an analog IC supplier than a DSP company especially if it continues to pour investment into the division.
Freescale enters debt-swap to cope with downturnFreescale Semiconductor Inc.'s top executives are hinging the company's survival and ability to prosper through the ongoing recession on a series of actions the IC vendor has taken in recent months, the most important of which is a multibillion-dollar debt swap.