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November 2007

NXP gains from tactical fab-lite route
NXP Semiconductors' Frans van Houten, president and CEO, talks about fab-lite and the key developments since the company moved out from under the wing of Philips.

Altera executive bets big on Asia
Erhaan Shaikh, the newly installed regional VP and managing director for Altera Asia Pacific, sees the opportunities spawned by the growing manufacturing and design activity in Asia.

October 2007

Cisco aims to bring back the roaring years
To capture what he sees as new revenue opportunities in next-generation communications and data management activities, the chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc. wants to deploy the strategy that drove his company's explosive growth in its early years.

Ericsson goes beyond wireless
LM Ericsson's chief marketing officer, Johan Bergendahl, discusses the company's efforts to expand its wireless operator roots into a multi-environment approach to communications.

September 2007

Asia's EDA moment is just around the corner
Mentor Graphics' Daniel Yang, managing director, Pacific Rim operations, discusses the Asian designer's future and how the region is shaping up to captivate the EDA industry.

Infineon keeps faith in tech development
Infineon board member Hermann Eul speaks with EE Times on the impact of integrating application expertise on the IDM value chain, Infineon's R&D plans, 4G development and how software expertise is being adopted by chip vendors.

August 2007

MEMS pioneer draws up technology's course
MEMS pioneer Kurt Petersen of SiTime shares MEMS' development since the 1980s as well as his thoughts on where it is headed in the future.

Bosch sees huge potential in tiny MEMS
Bosch sensor engineering VP Horst Münzel and Bosch Sensortec general manager and CEO Frank Melzer recounted the history of MEMS development at Bosch and shared its plans for the technology in a conversation with EE Times.

July 2007

Linear's chief architect on power loss, IC design
Linear co-founder and chief technical officer Robert Dobkin, who has been involved in the development of high-performance linear ICs for more than 30 years, talks about his favorite topics: Linear itself, and larger design issues such as efficiency vs. power loss.

Microchip CEO anticipates 'historical challenge'
Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi weighs in on the chip industry, the private-equity steamroller, the "fab lite" model and the company's place in it all.

June 2007

AMD predicts multicore future
Dave Orton, ATI's former CEO and now AMD's executive VP for Visual and Media Business, talked with EE Times about some of the company's targets and technical hurdles with getting Fusion devices ready for market. He also elaborated on AMD's vision and its progress toward the multicore future.

Micron CEO: Of memories and foundry models
Micron Technology Inc. has grabbed its share of headlines. What will Micron do next? To get a handle on the company, EE Times caught up with Steve Appleton, its president, CEO and chairman, who talked about the IC industry, foundry/fab-lite models, private-equity buyouts, its diversification strategy and universal memory.

May 2007

Look back, then peek into the future of test
Chandran Nair, managing director of NI Southeast Asia, talks about how the company has moved from the test and measurement domain to the embedded turf.

'Asset-lite' strategy keeps Moore's Law alive
Ajit Manocha, executive VP and chief manufacturing officer of NXP, believes that the widening gap between design productivity and Moore's Law will trigger a paradigm shift in IC manufacturing that will entail a breakthrough in the way companies work together.

April 2007

Making MEMS the new 'mouse'
This article features ST's MEMS Product Division General Manager Benedetto Vigna, who views MEMS as the new 'mouse.' ST first ventured into developing MEMS in 2001. Last year, the company inaugurated a 200mm semiconductor wafer fabrication line dedicated to MEMS devices.

TI Fellow details digital micromirror apps
Larry Hornbeck, Emmy winner for his invention of the digital micromirror device, told EE Times that TI has still more applications up its sleeve for the digital micromirror.

March 2007

Take distinctive approach to IC verification
Richard Goering spoke with Hooman Moshar about Broadcom's distinctive approach to IC verification.

Prioritize effective execution, customers
Pat Gelsinger, senior VP and general manager of the digital enterprise group at Intel discussed Intel's relationship and involvement with Microsoft, Xen and system builders in this interview.

February 2007

Finisar chair contemplates on fiber's future
Finisar chairman and CEO Jerry Rawls weighed in on single-mode fiber's rise in the data center and whether the shift from 10Gbit to 100Gbit Ethernet might be too much, too soon.

Retired industry pioneer muses on IC trends
Epitaxy innovator and SIA founder Wilf Corrigan shares with EE Times his take on the developments in semiconductor business.

January 2007

Hong Kong S&T Park exec tackles China RoHS
Less than a year after the EU's RoHS directive took effect, the industry is again bracing itself for another, reportedly tougher, environmental regulation —China's Administration on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products.

Future engineers see global economy in action
The best way to prepare students to be globally competitive, says Belle Wei, dean of engineering at San Jose State University, is to show them what they're up against.

December 2006

Visionary sees rich opportunities in multicore
Intel Corp.'s chief technology officer, Justin Rattner talked about Intel's embrace of the multicore solution and its impact on the current computing platform.

Chip player faces new global realities head-on
Global forces have set Europe's chip giants on a course of self-reinvention. STMicroelectronics' changes were company-specific.

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