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Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Cypress Continue To Improve PSOC Family Performance

November 16, 2009

Cypress Introduces New PSOC 1 Device With Enhanced Analog Performance | finance.yahoo.com

1. Cypress Semiconductor has introduced PSOC 1 devices with enhanced analog performance. This should help with the adoption of these devices in touch screen phones, appliances, automotive applications, etc.2. Over the last few years Cypress has obtained hundred of design wins with it's PSOC family of devices and has obtained design wins with at least 5 of the leading cell phone manufacturers.

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Potential TSMC Entry into LED Market Could Effect Current Supplier Base

November 16, 2009

TSMC Looks at Solid State Lighting Market | www.eetimes.com

1. Per this article and other commentary in SEA, it appears that TSMC is going to invest $46M in setting up a product line to make LED's for the lighting market.2. The $46M to be invested in setting up this line represents a substantial sum of money that could benefit equipment manufacturers such as Aixtron and Veeco.

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Cree Adds Additional Manufactuing Capacity in China

November 12, 2009

Cree Buys Huge LED Plant in China | triangle.bizjournals.com

1. Cree's purchase of a large facility in China to manufacture both chips and components is a strong sign that Cree believe that its surge in business will continue in the future.2. The Chinese LED market is a significant one with the Chinese government subsidizing the cost of LED fixtures. In addition, many of the Cree's U.S. based lighting customers are manufacturing in China.3. The article says chip manufacturing and not phosphor deposition which is critical IP in manufacturing white LED's.

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

"Green" LED Lighting Continues to Replace Tradional Lighting Technologies

November 12, 2009

Starbucks Goes Bonkers for LED Lighting | seekingalpha.com

1. Starbucks is just one of a number of commercial business's which are converting their lighting to LED Lighting.2. Starbucks has selected GE for this lighting application in an attempt to become more "Green" and at the same time save on energy costs. 3. LED fixtures are generally still too expensive for most home applications, but the cost is beginning to come down as lighting class LED become more efficient, and the manufacturing costs come down the cost curve..

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Vast small hard drives fuel new consumer applications and smaller computers

November 8, 2009

Toshiba Introduces Two 1.8-Inch Hard Disk Drive Families for Both High Performance and Long Battery Life in Mobile Computing Applications | www.earthtimes.org

After its merger with Fujitsu, Toshiba is now the largest manufacturer of mobile hard disk drives (HDDs) (2.5 inch and 1.8 inch HDDs). Toshiba is also the largest manufacturer of 1.8-inch HDDs and the company has just introduced a HDD in this form factor with 320 GB storage capacity. This 2-disk 1.8-inch drive offers the highest storage capacity in such a small package and will enable more consumer and mobile computer applications

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Optical disc drives being replaced by flash memory in computers?

November 4, 2009

PC makeover: slimmer profile, no DVD drive | www.mercurynews.com

Many PC makers are not including optical drives, especially for laptops and netbooks. Leaving out optical drives is being done not to reduce cost but to allow slimmer laptop and netbook computers. Flash memory with built in programs and entertainment content are now on the market in USB as well as memory card formats. Downloading content and applications has become more common, replacing one of the big uses for optical drives in computers. As flash memory $/GB declines and as write speeds for flash devices improve will these devices replace current optical disk physical distribution formats?

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

LED Industry Continues Progress to Repalce Incandescent Light Bulb

November 2, 2009

Cree Demonstrates Record Breaking LED LIght Bulb | finance.yahoo.com

1. Cree and Philips are among the first LED firms to demonstrate prototypes of an LED replacement for the A19 size standard incandescent light bulb.2. There are numerous firms competing for the government prize for creating a production worthy A19 incandescent replacement.

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Flash Memory Not Ready to Replace Hard Drives in Most Enterprise Applications

November 2, 2009

Disc Storage Gone in a Flash | www.forbes.com

1. Despite the content of this article, flash memory is not ready to replace magnetic HDD's in most enterprise applications accept where the higher performance of flash can be taken advantage of.2. Flash memory today is 4-5 times more expensive than HDD magnetic memory, and in reality this past year NAND flash memory has almost doubled in price.

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Samsung and Toshiba Continue to Dominate over 75% of NAND Flash Market

November 2, 2009

Market View -- Q3 Sales Ranking of Brand NAND Flash IC Makers | www.dramexchange.com

1. Based on Q3 sales data Samsung and Toshiba continue to hold over 75% of the NAND Flash market. The 3 other players combined ( MIcron, Hynix,, etc) only have approximately 22-23% of the NAND flash market.2. NAND Flash pricing has stabilized to the up side this quarter after almost doubling in price from the first quarter of this year.

Jerald KolanskyFormer Worldwide VP of SalesPLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Cree PLCC White LED's Appear to catch up and Surpass PLCC devices from NIchia

October 22, 2009

Cree Sets a new STandard of INdoor LED Lighting with the X Lamp R MX-6 LED, Industry's First Lighting class PLCC LED | finance.yahoo.com

1. Approximately 2 years ago Cree purchased Cotco a China based LED manufacturer which allowed Cree to expand it's product offering. With the release of the X Lamp R MX-6 device in the PLCC package, Cree now has a product that should allow it to successfully compete against Nichia and Osram who have been some of the market leader for PLCC lighting LEDs.

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