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Vision India 2020: Preface

Posted on Tuesday, May 6th

This is a new series in which I invite readers to take a journey with me into the future through the minds of multiple entrepreneurs, who by addressing the opportunities I see today, will perhaps shape the future of India. But in this series, we will close our eyes, and exist in this future, and

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Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, May 5th

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

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Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, May 4th

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

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Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, May 3rd

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

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Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, May 2nd

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

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Forbes Column 08: Lighting The Way In India

Posted on Friday, May 2nd

I had concluded a previous Forbes column by saying greed is infectious. My new Forbes column, Lighting The Way In India, highlights an entrepreneur who does not give a damn about greed. You have read his interview, perhaps, here.

Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, May 1st

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

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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 10)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 30th

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

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