Semi Startup-III

Montalvo Systems. A fabless semiconductor startup...Product: low power media processor or something like that. The following link is funny and almost as clueless as me, as to what they are doing. Anyway, a good read.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/25/montalvo_nuova/

A Roman First and then an Enemy

Caesar arrived a short time afterwards. As a welcoming present he received Pompey's head and ring in a basket. However, he was not pleased in seeing his rival, once his ally and son-in-law, murdered by traitors. When a slave offered him Pompey's head, "he turned away from him with loathing, as from an assassin; and when he received Pompey's signet ring on which was engraved a lion holding a sword in his paws, he burst into tears" (Plutarch, Life of Pompey 80). He deposed Ptolemy XIII, executed his regent Pothinus, and elevated Ptolemy's sister Cleopatra VII to the throne of Egypt. Caesar gave Pompey's ashes and ring to Cornelia, who took them back to her estates in Italy.

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Semi-2

What in the world is this? "http://www.rapportincorporated.com/"

A working part, demonstrated at some conference, ultra low power and ultra high performamce!! Specific to control intensive designs. I need to dig more into it....Laters

Semiconductor Startup in Bay Area

Analogix Semiconductor:

I think it would be interesting to keep a log of emerging semi startups and look back after couple of years.

Company: Founded 2002. Recently went through a round of funding. They make analog and mixed signal devices for multimedia and other applications. I think one of the few companies in mixed signal area.

Product: A reasonably big line of products, basically in transmitter/receiver for high defination multimedia products. I guess, pretty good for a 4 years old company.

Careers: Always a thing to look at a startup website, to get an idea of what they are working on... Currently they need AEs/TME/Design Engineer. Typical hardware company profile.

Anyone knows more about it?

How would you intrepret this? (Another news gaffe)

From http://finance.yahoo.com today's edition:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Black and Hispanic home buyers pay more for their mortgages than do whites, according to a Federal Reserve report released Friday.

The Fed's analysis of 2005 home lending data found that 54.7 percent of black borrowers paid a higher interest rate on home mortgages. That was up sharply from 32.4 percent in 2004.

For Hispanics, 46.1 percent paid more for their mortgages last year -- more than double the 20.3 percent reported in 2004.

In contrast, only 17.2 percent of whites paid higher interest on their home mortgages last year. However, that was up considerably from 2004's 8.7 percent.

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News Headlines are misleading ...

I saw this headline on one of the premier newspaper in my area
"Valley execs more likely to add jobs than reduce"

I was quite pleased to see that, before I clicked on the article, went through 2 pages, until I reached, what someone calls *hard data*.

So the hard-data is "The survey also found 38 percent of Santa Clara County executives said they expect to increase their number of employees vs. 13 percent who plan decreases and 47 percent who anticipate no workforce changes."

So 13 + 47 = 60% of the companies are not going to hire (or even layofff people), and 2% have absolutely no idea!!! Does this translate to the headline "Valley execs are more likely to add jobs than reduce"? Perhaps yes ... nevertheless misleading.