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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 1)
Timing is an essential aspect of any successful venture. Attempt to launch the venture too soon and the market may not exist or be mature enough to sustain your venture. Enter the market too late and you are bound to be fighting competition. Murli Thirumale has repeatedly brought high technology to the market, and recounts
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 6)
SM: You have market potential to build a pretty big business. Is that what you want to do? FW: I want to build a profitable and sustainable business. We do not want to grow too fast. Our strategy is to have the right technology, the right architecture and the right product mix in the right
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 5)
SM: You have been doing this for two years, where are you in terms of products? FW: We don’t produce the DIMM, we produce controller chips. We sell controller chips to DIMM makers. Our partners today are Smart Modular Technologies and Hynix. They take their DRAM, put it on a board with our chips to
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 4)
SM: How does MetaRam fit your golden rules? FW: I often say the main rule golden rule is “CPUs should talk directly to DRAMs is because that is how God intended it to be, and you should not get in the middle of it”! That is why it can be surprising when you look at
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 3)
SM: Chip design does not have to be a labor intensive process. FW: No it doesn’t, but it can be. You can very easily apply too many people. You need a lot of people for complex chips, so there is always a temptation to use too many people. The problem is you then run into
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 2)
SM: What was significant about your time at AMD for both yourself and the industry? FW: It was a time that brought about the absolute consolidation and predominance of microprocessors. In the 1980’s the RISC processors and single chip processors where gaining importance but there were still mainframes in multiple architectures. By the mid 90’s
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 1)
One trend occurring over the past decade is a reduction in the overall innovation by entrepreneurs in the semiconductor space. With the roll out of multi-core processors it is obvious that chokepoints in processing speed are going to lie in places like the bus and memory. That is where MetaRam comes into play. A small
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 10)
SM: Go back to 2004 and trace to 2008 – what were the milestones in terms of traction and bringing the solution to market? GG: When we made the LinkedIn partnership in April 2005 analysts covered that as the first time job searching and social networking were blended. In the fall of 2005, in a