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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 11)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th

One of the greatest challenges with Massively Parallel Computing is Programmability. Anant explains Tilera’s approach to software and tools in more detail, and his “gentle slope programming” concept. SM: You created all of the tools from scratch, or did you base them on existing tools? AA: We invented all of this, and it is very

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Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch (Part 8)

Posted on Monday, Aug 6th

SM: How did you finance the different phases of the company? Seed? Angel? VC? Corporate? JW: I supplied a very small amount of seed capital that basically covered expenses while we secured our first round of venture funding. The $5 million Series A was led by Trinity Ventures and Mayfield Fund in mid-2004. Rustic Canyon

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