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21 years ago it was already becoming obvious that Europe’s telcos were falling behind Asian telcos in the rate at which they were installing fibre to the home. When asked at the Fibrecomm2003 conference whether there was any operator in Europe with significant plans to bring fibre nearer to the user, Jean Baptiste-Loire, vice-president of marketing for Infineon Technology’s wireline ...

Nowadays, despite the generational hype about new use cases, new generations of cellular telephony are used almost exclusively for congestion relief  and, back in 2003,  that was the  attitude towards the recently installed 3G  network. 21 years ago, Cambridge Consultants (CCL) were saying that 3G is for cost reduction and not for multimedia data transmissions such as streaming video and ...

21 years ago NEC introduced a laptop powered by aN internal fuel cell. The fuel cell technology behind the PC was first shown at Nano Tech 2003 in February. NEC’s fuel cell at a glance Average output 14W Maximum output 24W Voltage 12V Cell weight 900g Fuel weight 300g PC+cell weight 2 kg PC size 288x280x40mm Run time 5hour approx ...

Back in early 2003, it was being said that the silicon foundry business model would have to change if firms were to recover from low profit margins and low growth rates. “The era of high margins for the current foundry model has gone forever,” said Bob Tsao, chairman of foundry firm UMC at its February investor conference. Under a new ...

The prospect of war with Iraq has lead to a postponement of semiconductor demand but not an absolute decline, according to Doug Andrey, principal analyst of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) speaking at the 2003  Globalpress  conference in Monterey. “After 9/11 we saw demand postponed but it did not disappear,” said Andrey, arguing that the same thing is happening now, ...

The value of the chip content in electronic systems will peak at 25%, TSMC’s US President, Ed Ross, told the 2003 Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey. The silicon foundry industry made 20% of the world’s chip production in 2022  for total foundry industry revenues of $10 billion, said Ross, ‘by 2010, the percentage of ICs manufactured in foundries will be ...

At the 2004 DAC a subtle but immensely significant shift was observed in the electronics industry since the 2003 DAC. While small EDA companies still looked to get acquired by the Big Three, they were now looking to build strategic relationships well beyond that trio of established players. The new circle included systems vendors that also have their own foundry ...

The successor to the fabless and chipless semiconductor business models will be the designless chip company, according to a panel of industry experts at the 2005/Globalpress Sunmmit Conference in Monterey. “Companies are going to be designless as well as fabless – they’ll have product marketing people, and product definition people, and no one else,” said Naveed Sherwani, president and CEO ...

The Russian chip business has gone nowhere for 30 years. 19 years ago we heard why. Potential chip entrepreneurs in Russia are being deterred by their mistrust of government funding and by the reluctance of foreign investors to invest. “The scientific community is ahead of the government in understanding what needs to be done. They travel, they talk to venture ...

Atoms don’t scale, and this is the ultimate barrier to the continuation of Moore’s Law, Dr Bernie Meyerson, chief technology officer of IBM, told the 2006 Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey. “Whether that barrier happens in 2016, or 2020, or 2024 is under debate,” said Meyerson, who was of the opinion that scaling would deliver 6nm processing in 2020. While ...