Infineon: Industrial and Automotive business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We recently evaluated Infineon’s financials and the negative impact Qimonda has had on it. While it is facing difficulties offloading its Qimonda stake, the German chipmaker has done well in its two business segments. Let us take a quick look at the Industrial and Automotive business in this part.

Forbes Column 08: How To Heat Up Solar

Here’s my new Forbes column, How To Heat Up Solar, addresses what it would take to get solar energy to account for a meaningful portion of the global energy needs.

Mobile WiMAX – 4Ging the Future?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my last piece, I gave a brief historical perspective of WiMAX as a fixed wireless broadband standard. This article provides an insight into mobile WiMAX and its future as a 4G standard.

Nvidia Riding the Graphics Boom

Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) recent 3:2 stock-split on 9/10 must have helped, but the stock’s rally, this week, has more to do with Nvidia’s robust showing in the Q2/07 results. Net earning of $172.73 million ($0.43 a share) on a revenue of $935.3 million is almost double that of $86.7 million ($0.22 a share) in Q2/06

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AMD Needs a Multi-Core Killer App

After it released its first dual core Opteron for servers on April 21, 2005 followed by the Athlon 64 X2 for desktops a month later, Intel released its first dual core, the Pentium Extreme Edition. Around the same time, AMD splashed full-page ads in newspapers calling upon the bigger rival to join a duel to

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 15)

SM: What you are proposing sounds very disruptive. AA: It is completely disruptive; we can displace, depending on the market, FPGAs, DSPs, processors, ASICS. Right now initial markets are really in networking, but the fundamental technology is revolutionary. It will be the way all multicore systems are built in the future.

The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 14)

Here we discuss the current market environment, the competitive landscape with a focus on what current chips are being displaced by the multicore chips. SM: I read in the slides you sent me that you are expecting a TAM (Total Available Market) of $54 billion, is this based on the two markets we discussed –

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 12)

SM: How much do people need to learn to be able to optimize programs on the Tilera chips? AA: That depends on the applications and the domain. The good news is you have gotten something working and running. Once you have done that, you can then try various optimizations. You don’t have to read 50

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