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Category: Career

Career

  • 391 San Antonio Road: The House that William Shockley Built (and Destroyed)

    Once upon a time, the Santa Clara Valley was called the Valley of Heart’s Delight; the main industry was growing prunes; and there were orchards…

  • Why are the IEEE President and President-Elect speaking in Ft. Collins? Because…

    I worked at HP in Ft. Collins, Colorado back in the 1970s. It was a heady experience. We were designing and building early, pre-PC desktop…

  • Cattle Call

    Last week at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovations Conference, a rude attendee sitting a few seats away from me in the auditorium persisted in using his mobile…

  • An Interesting – And Challenging – Take on Tech

    I recently stumbled upon a limited series on Netflix called Black Mirror. I’m not accustomed to doing reviews, so this is a bit unusual –…

  • Fear and Trepidation at Intel

    You may be aware that Intel went through a layoff recently. Whatever you think of the merits of the layoff itself, it would be hard…

  • Reviewing the $10,000 Ethernet Cable

    AudioQuest sells a $10,000 Ethernet cable. The people who buy this cable know why they need it, and it’s well worth the extra investment. “Sure,”…

  • Drawings as Cartoons?

    This one is for those of you that are interested in language. Our industry tends to take a lot of liberties with language (largely, I…

  • Job Openings at AMD

    Looking for new career opportunities in management? You might try AMD. The big chipmaker just whacked three of its top executives: the General Manager of…

  • Two Weeks of MEMS and Sensors

    The last couple weeks have involved two events with sensors center-stage. The MEMS Executive Congress is a confab of executives from the MEMS industry (and…

  • If This Is a Conference, then It Must Be November

    November would appear to be Conference Month. Of course, no one has conferences in the summer. Oh, wait! Semicon West does! OK, well, most folks…