Monthly Archives: March 2009

Arma virumque cano

Posted on March 5, 2009 by paulmcl

Of arms and the man I sing1. ARM is the leading microprocessor vendor in the world, at least if you count the right way. Over 10 billion processors have been shipped and the 1.5 billion mobile phones per year must … Continue reading →

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Finance

Posted on March 4, 2009 by paulmcl

Finance is an area of business that is especially poorly understood by startup CEOs who tend to have engineering backgrounds, and underestimate the importance of everything else: account management, marketing and, of course, finance. Let’s start with how EDA companies … Continue reading →

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Guest blog: John Lambert

Posted on March 3, 2009 by paulmcl

Today’s guest is John Lambert. He is another Brit and is currently CEO of Virtutech (I was his VP marketing for a time). Prior to that he still has the scars from many years at Rational starting from the early … Continue reading →

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Fab 5

Posted on March 1, 2009 by paulmcl

For some time I have been talking about the semiconductor industry as the Fab 5, since there have been five process “clubs”. A few players hedge their bets and are in more than one club. The fab five are Intel … Continue reading →

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