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Advice for Out-of-towners

Advice for Out-of-towners
by Paul McLellan on 06-02-2014 at 3:29 am

You are visiting San Francisco and you have dutifully read your guide book. Let me give you some contrarian advice.

See the Golden Gate Bridge. The best way is not to drive there or get a taxi, but to rent a bicycle (lots of places on that side of the city, try Googling “blazing saddles”) and cycle across the bridge. You can then go down … Read More


Everything You Wanted to Know About the Internet But Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Internet But Were Afraid to Ask
by Paul McLellan on 06-01-2014 at 5:28 pm

Every year, Mary Meeker produces a huge presentation (140 slides) on important trends in the internet. This year’s came out at the end of last week. It is well worth the time it takes to go through it. Here is the first slide, effectively the table of contents:

  • Key Internet Trends
  • Status Update: Tech Stocks / Education / Healthcare
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Apple is Roaring Back!

Apple is Roaring Back!
by mbriggs on 06-01-2014 at 5:00 pm

Mind you, this post is being written by the same guy who wrote8 Reasons Why I Hate My iPhone 5. I’ve been living with the Samsung S4 for about a year, and am ready to return to the Apple fold. It’s partially that too many, or perhaps the wrong apps running on my phone cause big problems. This manifests itself anywhere from … Read More


SemiWiki Exceeds One Million Users!

SemiWiki Exceeds One Million Users!
by Daniel Nenni on 05-29-2014 at 11:00 am

SemiWiki was launched on January 1[SUP]st[/SUP] 2011 and according to Google Analytics we have officially exceeded one million users (unique visitors). I really don’t know what to say but, WOW, that is a LOT of people reading SemiWiki articles, wikis, and forums (there are now 13,464 posts on SemiWiki).

According to Alexa.com… Read More


A Brief History of the Apple MacBook Pro

A Brief History of the Apple MacBook Pro
by Daniel Payne on 05-12-2014 at 5:49 pm

I’m typing this blog today with my trusty Apple MacBook Pro – a 17″ laptop with matte display and 16GB of RAM, but don’t stereotype me as an Apple fanboy because I also own the fantastic Samsung Galaxy Note II phone (aka phablet). Some industry pundits would have us believe that desktops and laptops are going… Read More


System Design: Turtles All the Way Down

System Design: Turtles All the Way Down
by Paul McLellan on 04-27-2014 at 7:34 am

According to Steven Hawking, Bertrand Russell once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun orbits around our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported… Read More


Death to ‘content marketing’

Death to ‘content marketing’
by Eric Esteve on 04-10-2014 at 9:39 am

If you ask me: Are you blogging for Semiwiki? The real answer could be:

No, I am just telling stories, but these are true stories! This idea is perfectly illustrated by this post that I found on:

http://www.pivotalpod.com/death-to-content-marketing/

And in particular this extract, as it is something that I could have written … Read More


A New, Free, Web-Based EDA Toolset in the Cloud

A New, Free, Web-Based EDA Toolset in the Cloud
by Daniel Payne on 04-08-2014 at 11:39 am

In the 1990’s there was a push to build EDA frameworks, however they all failed because no user wanted to be locked into one EDA vendor tool flow. Fast forward to 2014 and there’s an emerging trend to use web-based EDA tools as a framework, instead of downloading and installing software to your desktop or device. I just… Read More


TI’s Way of Strategies – Formation & Execution

TI’s Way of Strategies – Formation & Execution
by Pawan Fangaria on 02-26-2014 at 8:30 am

For a company to stand still and continually prosper even after facing several downturns in its career of 80+ years, and still move swiftly with strong commitment and confidence, its strategy has to be right and rock solid possessing sustainable competitive advantage, and of course it has to be an early mover in everything it does… Read More