Nick Flaherty talks to Mark Thompson, CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor, in Berlin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the company. Nick Flaherty talks to Alan Gatherer, Chief Technical Officer for the wireless infrastructure division at Texas Instruments, about next generation Long Term Evolution wireless technology. Finding the right candidates to drive the semiconductor industry forward is not as straightforward as it used to be. Richard Lambert was editor of the Financial Times newspaper until 2001, and from June 2003 he was one of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England A major factor behind revised outlook is improving DRAM market,
which will account for more than 10 per cent of worldwide semiconductor revenue. Reducing the flow of hazardous substances into landfill sites is a laudable one. We may not agree the RoHS directive was the right place to start, but we have to comply. As vice president of research and development at Broadcom, Dr Ed Frank has a wide range of technologies to oversee. Marked by an overall slowdown in growth and the arrival of new generations of core products, 2006 is shaping up to be a key transition year for the consumer-electronics industry, according to industry research experts iSuppli Corp. Leti is a laboratory operated by the Technology Research Directorate (DRT) of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). It is one of the largest applied research laboratories in electronics in Europe. April saw the 40th anniversary of the publication of the article that became the basis for Moore's law, which looked at the period of 10 years from 1965 to 1975 and came to the conclusion that the density of components on a piece of silicon was doubling every year. Having pioneered reprogrammable hardware, Xilinx is the world's largest maker of field programmable gate arrays. Willem P aWim' Roelandts has served as President and CEO since January 1996, and in August 2003 assumed the position of Chairman of the Board. There is little doubt that the electronics industry is finally showing signs of steady recovery following a few difficult years since the Year 2000 boom. The latest figures from In-Stat show that the semiconductor industry is set to grow by 29percent in 2004. Most engineers in the world have used a piece of Tektronix equipment at some stage in their career, and this has made Tektronix one of the leading test equipment makers in the world, with divisions focussing on logic analysers, video test, communications test and signal sources. As mobile phones are turning into smartphones, a growing range of multimedia features are making their appearance, including Hi-Fi audio playback of MP3 or other file formats, video capture and touch-sensitive displays.