GLG News by Semiconductor & Component Experts

When Colao left McKinsey to help run Omnitel as the COO he showed that he was more that a "Strategy Man" working alongside Francesco Ciao he showed that he was someone vary capable at Operational matters.  With Cioa gone, he steppped up to the CEO role and integrated the Omnitel into Vodafone....

Looking at the services businesses of Qualcomm and what you see is the development of a number of verticals.  One of which is BREW; the others are Location, Advertising, Payments, Video.  These services are aimed at helping to create Federations for particular services.  Having created...

Large scale solar energy plants are not new, but can be useful if fossil fuels maintain high prices. They can help put a cap on high energy costs, but since they are large-scale projects they take years to install. The impact of these on photovoltaics should be minimal.

Oracle is getting close to delivering on their promises about Fusion.  If the final suite of products can match the early previews, they have achieved a “game-changer” in enterprise applications.

The ability of Apple to shake the market time after time has probably been entered to business schools syllabus. However, this time, they seem to give a complete ( almost) answer to all the needs expressed by the cellular user community aiming to the less developed countries. 3G capability was a must...

Apple tried for many years to enter the industry world. Will they succeed with the new iPhone and SDK2.0 ?

The new price point for HD receivers will mean signicantly more volume of units in automotive OEM applications, potentially surpassing one million units installed in OEM applications by early 2009. Unlike Sirius and XM, Ibiqiuty's HD radio is finding an audience in Asia and in Europe. Ibiquity is entering...

Volkswagen recognizes they have to produce in the US to growth the US market share. The same formula has worked for the other German, Japanese, and Korean transplants. Expect the factory to be flexible enough to produce both Volkswagen and Audi products, since they share platform and powertrain components....

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Profitless prosperity is the meager reward for the IC industry, as tool costs escalate while chip prices fall.  It is increasingly a consumer's market for electronics and equipment providers and employees of IC companies continue to pay the price.  The solar cell industry is an ever- promising...