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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
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 14)
SM: Were they willing to fill out the spreadsheet you sent over? LD: Most people are like, “this is insane … what are you, a root canal?”
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 13)
SM: What does it cost to buy a SuccessFactors solution? LD: It ranges. We have multi-million dollar deals. We just told Wall Street (because we want to ensure they know we have a good future so we did something we normally would not do) that in the first 5 weeks of 2008 we did a
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 12)
SM: Very early on in this conversation, you mentioned you are really into metrics. Talk about metrics you track, metrics you manage your company by. LD: We can start out with late-stage pipeline coverage. That is how I know our business is healthy. Late –stage pipeline coverage of each area and each sector is probably
