Electronic Business articles from December 2006

Electronic Business archives from December 2006

Harari a slam dunk.(Eli Harari)(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... By John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief Choosing Eli Harari, CEO of SanDisk, as ELECTRONIC BUSINESS ' 2006 CEO of the Year was not a difficult decision, given the many successes the 18-year-old company has racked up during the past five years....

EMS, ODM growth to outpace electronics market.
December 1, 2006... Compiled by Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor Overview: Both the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original design manufacturing (ODM) segments of the outsourcing market are expected to grow through the end of the decade,...

Southern exposure: More EMS heads to Mexico.
December 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts, Contributing Writer In the past three years, Jabil Circuit has doubled the revenue from its plants in Mexico while increasing revenue by one fourth from its plants in China. Why is that? "What is driving the...

China's design influence is on the rise.
December 1, 2006... By Ben Beutler, Contributing Writer Not content with dominating electronics manufacturing, China is poised to become a design leader, as well. It will leapfrog Germany and South Korea to claim fourth place among nations where electronic...

EMS specialists stay ahead of the curve.(Electronics Manufacturing Services, Fabrinet)(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... By Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor Fabrinet , an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, had just launched its optical manufacturing business in 2000 when a not-so-funny thing happened in the market. High-tech--and...

EU membership spurs expansion.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... By Drew Wilson, Contributing Writer Europe's low-cost labor sites have moved east--and a little south. Manufacturers increasingly are acknowledging Bulgaria's role as Europe's next low-cost manufacturing hub. The country's January...

Videoconferencing stages a showy comeback.
December 1, 2006... By Drew Wilson, Contributing Writer Videoconferencing is coming back, and this time it looks good. Image quality, ease of use and cost are far more attractive than in the past, and industries are finding new uses for the technology....

Kodak's moment?(Eastman Kodak Co.'s charge-coupled device cameras)
December 1, 2006... By Russ Arensman, Contributing Writer Eastman Kodak image sensors were featured in an array of professional-grade digital cameras from the likes of Hasselblad , Leica and Olympus at the influential Photokina trade show in September. All...

Is the UMPC market headed for DOA?(Ultramobile PC)(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... By Jessica Davis, Senior Editor Intel , Samsung and Sony are putting a lot of muscle behind a new device whose new form factor promises mobile entertainment to consumers. In these days when cell phones, smart phones, PDAs and...

Networking a chip.(network-on-chip )(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor Until relatively recently, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) contained a processor, memory and various subsystems, all connected by an interconnect. Entire SoCs were built on a project-by-project basis. ...

Verigy stands alone.
December 1, 2006... By Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Writer Loyal customers. Technology innovation. A focused operating model. These are a few qualities that observers say are helping Verigy , formerly Agilent 's automatic test equipment (ATE) business,...

EDA's low-power play.(Electronic Design Automation )(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor As chip designs move to 90 and 65 nanometers, manufacturers are faced with a new set of challenges, including temperature and variability issues for standby or active power. The industry is...

Eli's big adventure.(Eli Harari)(Company overview)
December 1, 2006... By Russ Arensman After 18 years of battling for tech industry success, SanDisk CEO Eli Harari is convinced that the best is still to come If Eli Harari had followed his natural inclination, he might still be in the lab inventing the...

High-flying partner act.(Semiconductor industry)
December 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts, Contributing Writer Chasing Moore's Law, three amigos push collaboration into the clean room but still compete for foundry customers Chartered Semiconductor joined IBM 's CMOS common platform alliance because it...

Private equity chips away at semiconductor industry.
December 1, 2006... By Tam Harbert, Contributing Writer Investors see stable cash flows and need for consolidation It's time for consolidation in the semiconductor industry. Whether chip company CEOs recognize it or not, they'd better move aggressively...

Dysfunction, deceit, deep losses: Not the best executives of the year.
December 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts As we laud our CEO of the Year on the cover this month--a deserved, perhaps overdue nod to Eli Harari of SanDisk--it seems appropriate to take note in the back of the magazine of some of the year's worst executives. ...

The art of EDA innovation.(Electronic Design Automation, Electronics industry of Imperas)(Editorial)(Biography)
December 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor Creating a successful EDA company can be a moving target unless the developer truly understands the customers' needs and what customers are willing to buy. This level of success demands the tunnel...