Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 4)

Sass has displayed a consistent and perpetual ability to introduce extremely successful product lines at Applied Materials. Here we discuss the methodologies he used to establish the environment of innovation and product development. Very few companies have been able to internally innovate after reaching a certain scale. Many have perfected the art of M&A to

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Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 3)

Sass continues his discussion of his early career. Of note is his constant involvement in innovation, from Bell Labs to Intel he was consistently working on developing emerging technologies which would come to dominate the marketplace. His talent for building new product based on new technologies, and scaling them into market leading businesses is at

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Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 2)

Here Sass discusses his educational background, with a particular emphasis placed on his High School education which he received in Israel. Additionally, he covers the early years of his career. The disparities he notes between High School education in the United States and other parts of the world is another item of interest. In many

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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper – (Part 3)

By Lance Glasser, Guest Author [Part 2] We are seeing the research and development needed to stay at the leading edge of the semiconductor business increase steadily over the last few years. This has driven a consolidation of R&D into fewer bleeding edge players. This same phenomenon has also resulted in increasing buying power for

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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper – (Part 2)

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Smaller Faster Cheaper – (Part 1)

By Lance Glasser, Guest Author Craig Barrett used Smaller-Faster-Cheaper as a mantra at Intel for many years. This is truer today in the semiconductor business than it was even 10 years ago because the preponderance of the customers of the semiconductor industry has shifted from government, as it was in the early days, to industry

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Electronics Forecasts for India

According to a study by Frost and Sullivan, India is the fastest growing market for electronic products in the world with consumption expected to grow to $363 billion by 2015 from $28 billion in 2005. India will account for 11% of the global electronics market by 2015, compared to 1.8% in 2005. India will also

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Semi IP Growth & Commoditization

These nouveau techs are still fairly unsophisticated and don’t exactly need rocket speed processors or humongous memory cores, neither do they need DSPs. Nonetheless, they drive volumes, and the royalties will continue to add up, quite likely, for the old generation products from MIPS and Virage. Welcome to the age of commoditization!