November 30, 2010 – San Jose, CA – At a recent Churchill Club dinner, they had a discussion on the history and directions on wireless with Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, and HP’s Jon Rubenstein former CEO of Palm. The topic was – “Wireless is the Biggest Tech Platform in History. Now What?”. This started [...]
Overview presentation of Victory 3D Process Simulator for use on Silicon, III-V materials and Organic/TFT devices. The products are available under a variety of licencing options and can model both manufacturing flows and active devices. The full presentation can be viewed in the the PDF at Victory_presentation.pdf
December 8, 2010, 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging conference, Burlingame, CA—the first talk on 3-D directions came from IBM. Subramanian Iyer, fellow from IBM who discussed ” 3D Integration for High Performance System Applications”. Despite advances in scaling, materials, and silicon engineering, the IC performance levels are not improving at historical rates. Now, [...]
Odyssey Software has been in the MDM (Mobile Device Management) space since 1996,. Their primary business to date has been in the enterprise space with apps and enabled access between thin client devices and private, public and hybrid cloud configurations. Recently the company has added end device management and channel security to their offerings. This [...]
December 8, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – at the Dolby Labs headquarters and theater a preview of the CES debut of the Dolby Home Theater V4 product. This the newest generation of the surround sound processing drivers and software for PCs. A historic problem with laptops is the limited acoustics available in the form [...]
November 16, Santa Clara, CA – the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council had their annual Q4 event at the National Semiconductor conference center. While the initial speakers were discussing manufacturing and lithography issues for sub 28nm processes, Steve Teig from Tabula, Inc gave a perspect from the design and architecture [...]
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—the SFBA Nanotechnology Council symposium at the National Semiconductor conference center continued with Nick Kepler, vice president for corporate program management at Global Foundries discussed “Design and Technology Co-optimization: Collaborating to Overcome the Challenges of 28 nm and Beyond”. The key technology enablers are lithography, materials, and 3-D packaging. To [...]
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—SFBA Nanotechnology Council held a symposium on “Nanoelectronics: Innovation and Implementation” where Di Ma, vice president of applications and technology at TSMC talked about the “Technology Challenges in 28 nm CMOS and Beyond”. The general premise was that Moore’s law is going to continue, until advanced technology nodes no longer [...]
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—SFBA Nanotechnology Council held a symposium on “Nanoelectronics: Innovation and Implementation” at the National Semiconductor conference center. Chris Bencher, distinguished technical staff at Applied Materials talked about “Process and Integration-Based Scaling for 15 nm Nodes” in the opening session. First, he reviewed the progression of technologies for lithography. In the [...]
November 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – One of the major topics at the AES conference was Surround sound processing for cinema and music playback. A number of different technologies have been used based on multiple speaker configurations. One of the first major attempts at commercializing surround sound was the quadraphonic systems of the [...]
