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	<title>Travelling On The Silicon Road</title>
	<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog</link>
	<description>Ruminations on trends in the microelectronics / semiconductor world.......</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Chip designing and the cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/04/20/chip-designing-and-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Ecosystem</category>

		<category>Cloud</category>

		<category>chio design</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  
One way to look at how chip designing can leverage from cloud computing is to look at the main benefits of cloud computing and project the same onto IC design. Obvious ones here are on demand access to computing power and data storage in a scalable mode. It is a capex to opex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elpida files for bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/03/02/elpida-files-for-bankruptcy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/03/02/elpida-files-for-bankruptcy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>DRAM</category>

		<category>Elpida</category>

		<category>Micron</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The DRAM industry is not for the faint hearted. Add to the inherent “dynamic” nature of this biz, the waning of PC biz and onslaught of mobile tsunami and things definitely start gettimg pricklier.
Earlier this week, the Japanese DRAM maker, Elpida filed for bankruptcy. According to Q4 ’11 figures, Elpida had 12% of the market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD acquires SeaMicro</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/03/02/amd-acquires-seamicro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/03/02/amd-acquires-seamicro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>ASICs</category>

		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Mergers &amp; Acquistions</category>

		<category>Intel</category>

		<category>AMD</category>

		<category>Server</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  
AMD starts selling Intel based servers – it does make an intriguing catch phrase, correct?
  
AMD’s latest acquisition of SeaMicro has caused some ripples. SeaMicro is a US based exclusive start-up claiming high power and space reductions (both key factors in the server market). And it currently sells exclusively Intel based servers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semiconductor Ecosystem</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/26/semiconductor-ecosystem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/26/semiconductor-ecosystem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Ecosystem</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a friend shared an interesting article, “Restoring American competitiveness” by Gary Pisano and Willy Shih &#038; printed in HBR. While the article focuses on US, it does provide a deep insight and several pointers to the local Singapore context too.
Some of the points I especially liked were the description and importance of “industrial commons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capex disparity…. and the fortifications of the leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/25/capex-disparity-and-the-fortifications-of-the-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/25/capex-disparity-and-the-fortifications-of-the-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Foundry</category>

		<category>MIDs</category>

		<category>Intel</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/25/capex-disparity-and-the-fortifications-of-the-leaders/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Add the 2012 planned capex spending of the world’s top two IDMs and you get an almost half of the total ’12 planned semiconductor capital expenditures. Add to it the world’s top pure play foundry’s planned capex and you end up with nearly thrice the amount the group spent in 2009.
This month saw a slew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 2011 snapshot of the Semiconductor Business</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/14/a-2011-snapshot-of-the-semiconductor-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2012/01/14/a-2011-snapshot-of-the-semiconductor-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Samsung</category>

		<category>Qualcomm</category>

		<category>MediaTek</category>

		<category>Spreadtrum</category>

		<category>MStar</category>

		<category>Intel</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the time of the year when the digital cooler is abuzz with the gazing into the crystal ball.
Here I take a look at what all that happened in the semiconductor space in the year just gone past….
for is it not the past that also paves the way the New Year pans out?
A snippet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could TSMC be your next chip design cloud owner?</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/10/25/could-tsmc-be-your-next-chip-design-cloud-owner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/10/25/could-tsmc-be-your-next-chip-design-cloud-owner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>EDA</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Foundry</category>

		<category>Fabless</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/10/25/could-tsmc-be-your-next-chip-design-cloud-owner/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a 2009 technical report, ”The Clouds: A Berkeley view of cloud computing”, the authors cite “Cloud Computing is likely to have the same impact on software that foundries have had on the hardware industry”. The underlying logic being the high cost of semiconductor fabrication line leading to the rise of semiconductor fabs and these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what’s the deal with the Google –Motorola Mobility deal, eh?</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/08/16/so-what%e2%80%99s-the-deal-with-the-google-%e2%80%93motorola-mobility-deal-eh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/08/16/so-what%e2%80%99s-the-deal-with-the-google-%e2%80%93motorola-mobility-deal-eh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Industry Events</category>

		<category>Mergers &amp; Acquistions</category>

		<category>MIDs</category>

		<category>Hardware</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The cyberspace is abuzz with news about Google acquiring Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion. Speculations on Google’s motive behind the deal are mainly skewed towards 2 issues – access to patents and the other whether Google has plans to set up another end-to-end mobile empire akin to Apple.  Add to that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MStar &amp; Mediatek vying for Nokia’s 2G biz??</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/07/26/mstar-mediatek-vying-for-nokia%e2%80%99s-2g-biz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/07/26/mstar-mediatek-vying-for-nokia%e2%80%99s-2g-biz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Semiconductor</category>

		<category>Business</category>

		<category>Communciation</category>

		<category>Fabless</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when two local companies fight for the same pie? And when that pie has a component from a “once market leader, now floundering handset maker”? And when one of the pie contestants is also gnawing the market share of this “once market leader, now floundering handset maker”?
Well, speculations abound!
MStar and Mediatek,the two Taiwanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spreadtrum acquires Telegent - Deja-vu??</title>
		<link>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/07/22/spreadtrum-acquires-telegent-deja-vu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/07/22/spreadtrum-acquires-telegent-deja-vu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meenu</dc:creator>
		
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		<category>Fabless</category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asic-vlsi.com/blog/2011/07/22/spreadtrum-acquires-telegent-deja-vu/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spreadtrum Communications, the fabless developer of baseband and RF chips recently announced its acquisition of Telegent Systems, a developer of software and silicon for the reception of live broadcast television signals. 
While trolling the net, I saw this article that gives a quirky feeling of déjà vu. The article&#8217;s contents basically go on these lines….
In [...]]]></description>
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