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June 2009

Freescale won't go fabless despite downturn
Freescale 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 trend
EE 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.

May 2009

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 future
While 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.

April 2009

Dialog Semi goes beyond power management
Dialog 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.

March 2009

TI's Lowe banks on analog to propel company growth
TI 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 downturn
Freescale 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.

February 2009

Freescale will beat the blues away
Despite the flurry of bad news, Freescale CEO Rich Beyer believes that the company is well-positioned to emerge from the downturn with a stronger position in its two key markets and says it has enough liquidity to weather the downturn.

January 2009

Philips shapes intelligent consumer electronics
Peter Wierenga, CEO of Philips Research, shared the company's research philosophy, and explained that to grow in the highly competitive world of CE, it is important to combine new technologies with new products.

December 2008

Altera sees growth in slowdown
John Daane, president, CEO and chairman of the board of Altera Corp., explains how market slowdowns can be growth opportunities, and describes the company's activities in Asia.

October 2008

AMCC sees potential in Vietnam
Vietnam has endeared itself to investors worldwide. In March this year Applied Micro Circuits Corp established a design center in Ho Chi Minh City. Vu Nguyen, president of AMCC Vietnam and VP of engineering for AMCC, talks about the potential the company sees in Vietnam.

September 2008

Hitachi GST highlights green commitment
Shinichi Yamamoto, senior manager for the new CE CTS, C&C business group at Hitachi GST elaborates on the company's commitment to the environment and narrates how it has lived up to this vision through the development of new technologies.

MCU, Asia spell the difference for Atmel
Buoyed by the strong performance of its MCU portfolio, it is no surprise that Atmel's strategy centers on this product. MCU is Atmel's fastest growing product, and the company anticipates double-digit growth for the line, growing 20 percent year-on-year, noted Yang Chiah Yee, VP of Asia sales.

August 2008

Numonyx seeks flash memory supremacy
Looking into how Numonyx positions itself in the flash memory market and how it sees the competition with industry leader Samsung, Harrison said the company's strategy is to achieve profitability through the efficiency and cooperation between Intel and ST to lead in flash memory industry.

Keeping up with flash memory growth
Hyperstone's flash memory controllers have evolved to multiple product lines, which include the F2/F3 series that zeroes in on the CF card standard, and the S2/S3/S4/S6/S7 series targeting the SD/MMC card standard. Apart from carrying proprietary 32bit RISC processor core, the products feature hardware units such as the ECC, buffer, flash memory and host interface control logic.

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