Electronic Business articles from November 2005

Electronic Business archives from November 2005

The last 30 years: on our anniversary, we take stock of the electronics industry's progress.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
November 1, 2005... Thirty years is an ambiguous period of time. In one way, 30 years seems quite brief. Many of our readers can easily recall the music, political events and television shows of 30 years ago. But within the electronics industry, 30 years is a long...

Silicon Valley baby: my long, winding path out of obliviousness and into electronics.
November 1, 2005... Sometimes you can be smack-dab in the middle of history and not know it. To get from the house I grew up in to the swim club where I took lessons in the early 1960s--a distance of a little more than a mile--I would bicycle past a low-slung,...

Where are the top CEOs? Most of them are right where we left them.(CEOS OF THE YEAR)
November 1, 2005... In its first eight years of designating a Man of the Year, Time magazine did pretty well in terms of choosing people who stood the test of time: Charles Lindbergh, Walter P. Chrysler and Mohandas Gandhi, among others. Of course, in 1933 it also...

Looking ahead--way ahead: what's going to happen in the next 30 years?(gross domestic product)
November 1, 2005... Whereas the rest of this issue looks hack over the last 30 years, we asked Reed Research Group economist James Haughey to fire up his crystal ball to do some prognostication on the next 30 years. His thoughts: First, some context: Over the...

Buddy, can you spare a few million? High-tech still depends on venture capital to launch new ideas.(FINANCE)
November 1, 2005... They are already the stuff of legend. They ran with a crowd called "The Magnificent Seven" (or "The Traitorous Eight," depending on who you're talking to). And many believe that if these early venture capitalists hadn't stuck their necks--and...

Leveraging response management to improve operations performance.(Response Management)
November 1, 2005... Frequent changes to demand, supply, capacity, and product can spread over a multi-site enterprise and global supply chain, creating ripples that may swell to a tidal wave by the time they hit the point of action--the moment just before...

A work in progress: electronics managers shift with the times.(MANAGEMENT)
November 1, 2005... Our 30th-anniversary year has not exactly been a banner one for corporate management. High-profile executives have drawn jail sentences for insider trading, fraud and a list of other misdeeds. The aftershocks of disasters such as Enron and...

The wild, wild west: in the early days of semiconductors, the industry was primitive but exciting.(Semiconductors)
November 1, 2005... In 1975 I was a green engineer designing analog chips for National Semiconductor, fresh out of the University of California at Santa Barbara. As a young kid out of school, you don't know much, so you look for someone to whom you can apprentice...

From the Ukraine with love: the unlikely beginnings of EDA.(Electronic Design Automation)
November 1, 2005... None of the "Big 3" EDA companies--neither Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics nor Synopsys--were around back in 1975, so we turned to LSI Logic's Alexander Tetelbaum to comment on its beginnings. Why? Because in 1975 he received his Ph.D....

From punch cards to PCs to iPods: how distribution has changed in 30 years.(Supply Chain Management)
November 1, 2005... There's an old saying: Some things never change. In the electronics distribution industry, however, there's been so much change over the decades that even the concepts that have stayed the same are astonishingly different in size, degree of...

The 5 most enduring principles: in the beginning, there was Moore's Law, and from it come the industry's fundamental principles.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2005... Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor, first heard it as a young engineer around the Intel water-cooler in 1975, the year Electronic Business launched. Aart De Geus, CEO of Synopsys, first heard it at a technical conference in 1979, when...

The 10 most important business developments: in the evolution of the electronics business, these are the biggest shifts.
November 1, 2005... It wasn't the first time semiconductors created or destroyed an industry, and it wouldn't be the last, but the timing in 1975 was impossibly exquisite. That January the first personal computer--the MITS Altair 8800--appeared on the cover of...

The 10 most influential executives: technological and business leadership has been their trademark.
November 1, 2005... Many brilliant, creative, ambitious and idealistic people have made the electronics industry what it is today. In this article, Electronic Business spotlights 10 of these luminaries, whose contributions during the magazine's 30 years have had...

The 10 most definitive technologies: the past three decades have seen technologies come and go, but these 10 innovations have conquered the world.
November 1, 2005... From a pop culture standpoint, 1975 was a mixed bag: On the one hand, you had Saturday Night Live; on the other, you had the Bay City Rollers and The Six Million Dollar Man. From a technology standpoint, the results were less mixed: You had a...

The 10 most significant companies: these innovative companies had the greatest impact on the size, shape and character of today's electronics industry.
November 1, 2005... As we look back over the past 30 years, the advance of semiconductor technology seems as inevitable as Moore's Law. That's just 20/20 hindsight, though. There have been numerous points in the timeline where the absence of a key company or...

Electronic comic.(Cartoon)
November 1, 2005... "You'll never guess what our filtering software did to all your files."