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Guest blog: Jay Vleeschhouwer
I’ve known Jay Vleeschhouwer since my early days at Cadence since I somehow ended up with the role of being the technical contact for financial and industry analysts. He has been a research analyst since 1980, has been following the … Continue reading
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Managing your boss
There are shelves of management books about how to manage people that work for you. I don’t know of any management books about another very important skill: how to manage your boss. Or, if you are CEO, how to manage … Continue reading
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Friday puzzle: toenail cancer
Last week you were asked about an ordering of numbers from 0 to 100. The answer is that they were in alphabetical order, starting with “eight,” “eighteen” and ending with “two,” “zero.” Don’t worry if you didn’t get it or … Continue reading
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Always live as if you’ll be here permanently
Christian’s guest blog earlier this week reminded me of a golden rule when you move, especially if you only move somewhere on some sort of temporary assignment. That rule is: always live your life as if you’ll live permanently where … Continue reading
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PowerPC
At DAC, I happened to bump into Kaveh Massoudian of IBM, who is also the CTO of power.org, the consortium that deals with all things PowerPC. I previously met him when I was at Virtutech which was the era when … Continue reading
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Guest blog: Christian Burisch
Today’s guest blog is from Christian Burisch. He started his professional life as a chip designer and then became an AE for Ambit (where I first met him), Co-Design (SystemVerilog) and Tenison. Deciding to step back from the EDA industry … Continue reading
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How do you get a CEO job?
How do you get to be CEO? I’ve done it a couple of times now and I’d be happy to do it again. I assume we are talking about a startup of some kind rather than a large company. But … Continue reading
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Macs and PCs
The PC market is obviously one of the huge markets for semiconductors. I think that the semiconductor content in cell-phones (in aggregate) is now greater than in PCs but I can’t find the reference I remember. I was at Google … Continue reading
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Friday puzzle: zero to one hundred
Last week’s puzzle was where Lisa asks me some questions about my house number. The first thing to note is that since Lisa knows the number if she is told whether the first digit is a 3 or not, then … Continue reading
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Microroasting
“Microroasting.” It sounds like something that might go on in the diffusion oven of a small fab. But actually, I’m talking about coffee. It is totally off topic, but then it’s Friday. I’ve been learning how to talk “coffee roasting.” … Continue reading
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