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2009 Insight Award Winners

Don Scansen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:18:36 +0000

In the TechInsights tradition, every attempt is made to inspire those designers, engineers and builders who actually do the work of creating technology. To highlight this, a special awards ceremony was held recently in San Francisco. As many of you know, Semiconductor Insights has offered leading technology companies a chance to showcase their best efforts [...]

For the Love of Acronyms, Batman

Don Scansen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:01:32 +0000

Informally (which is certainly not to suggest that anything that goes on SemiSerious is formal) I keep a list of acronyms which are used for different things in different fields. With my memory being what it is, very few of these make it out of the dark recesses of my mind and into the light [...]

Insight Awards Selections

Don Scansen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:48:49 +0000

This week marks the beginning of the long and sometimes arduous process of selecting winners in the SI Insight Awards in each of the technology categories. Of course, these are: Process Technology Non-volatile Memory DRAM Mobile Processor Of course, it’s always a treat to talk to the creators of technology about their products. Sometimes, it’s more like listening to proud [...]

Intel at ISSCC 2009

Don Scansen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:28:47 +0000

Considering this won’t go up until the third day of the conference, it just wouldn’t be right to call this “a preview.” However, last week, I had a chance to get just that from Mark Bohr as he provided an overview of Intel’s contribution to this year’s ISSCC program. Intel is very well-represented at the [...]

Insight Awards 2008

Don Scansen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:41:39 +0000

Our marketing teamrecently launched the latest instance of the popular Insight Awards Program. We are rabidly seeking your submissions to the contest. This year, it is a coordinated event between EE Times, Portelligent, and Semiconductor Insights. If you haven’t heard about this program before, it is a chance to use us to showcase your technology. But [...]

Lon-Dan Calling

Don Scansen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:01:37 +0000

I am in London this week and just wrapped things up at the Intertech-Pira Image Sensor Conference. It was an interesting event with a diverse programme. There was everything from cameraphones to disposable endoscopes to swarms of robotic surveillance insects. Wait. The bugs were just my own nutty comment lifted from IEEE Spectrum. After a [...]

Sold!

Don Scansen — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:29:56 +0000

The most respected entity in reverse engineering was sold yesterday to CMP Technology, our long-time media partner. With Semiconductor Insights now part of the CMP family, I may have to drop “Semi” from the title. Things are about to get “serious” around here but in a good way. We are starting down the road to [...]

iPhone Sends Out S-O-S to the World

Don Scansen — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:29:33 +0000

If you just crawled out from under a rock or you were too busy filling orders for Saskatchewan sealskin bindings, you may not have heard about Apple’s iPhone launch last Friday. Fortunately, we did, and our crack marketing team stood in a Boston Apple Store line for 12 hours, raced back to HQ here in Ottawa, and [...]

See what’s inside the Xbox 360 Elite

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