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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Airlines dump smaller planes

Saturday, November 26, 2011

By Jim Harrison In the late 1990s, when jet fuel cost one-fourth of today’s prices, the small jets and turboprops were a profitable way for airlines to connect people in small cities to the rest in the world. The flights attracted business travelers who tended to pay more for tickets. Airlines loved the Bombardier and [...]

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Western Digital told to pay

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

By Jim Harrison Disk drive maker Western Digital has lost an arbitration action in response to charges of misappropriation of confidential information and has been told to pay Seagate $25M. Western Digital says it will continue to fight the suit started in 2006 after a former Seagate employee hired by Western Digital allegedly shared confidential [...]

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Thai floods affect Seagate and many others

Monday, November 21, 2011

From Bloomberg, By Peter Burrows Compared with the scores of companies in the disk drive industry with operations in Thailand, Seagate Technology is lucky. Only 180 of its 15,400 workers are among the 13 million people whose homes have been swamped. The floodwaters that have engulfed much of the industrial heartland north of Bangkok for [...]

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ARM adds high performance GPU

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

by Jim Harrison ARM has launched their Mali-T658 graphics processing unit. The latest member of the Midgard architecture-based GPU family targets devices such as superphones, tablets, and smart-TVs. The GPU is said to deliver up to ten times the graphics performance of the Mali-400 MP GPU, found in a wide range of today’s mainstream consumer [...]

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Turning a Technology-Neutral Eye Towards Efficient Light Bulbs

Monday, November 14, 2011

When comparing performance and reliability of an ENERGY STAR compliant CFL light bulb to an ENERGY STAR compliant LED light bulb, it can get confusing. Last week, the U.S. EPA got one step closer towards ending the confusion and overlap between different efficiency lighting programs by publishing its first draft of a specification that harmonizes [...]

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A new report on fast Ethernet chips

Monday, November 7, 2011

By Jim Harrison The Linley Group – an independent technology analysis and strategic consulting firm – is going to publish the Guide to Ethernet Switch and PHY Chips in late November. They do a bang-up job of market analysis and in this publication they will cover: • GbE switch chips • 10GbE switch chips • [...]

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When you die, will you leave a legacy?

Monday, November 7, 2011

 As 2011 is nearly over, this will be the year remembered in the electronics technology industry as the year three important people passed away: Steve Jobs, who left a worldwide legacy and two famous analog gurus Jim Williams and Bob Pease, who left a legacy in the semiconductor industry. Their work in their fields will [...]

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