The future of silicon.

Two months ago, I wrote about the wave of consolidation that has taken the semiconductor industry by storm, causing a significant change in the way silicon chips for consumer electronics are manufactured.

Semiconductors buyers club.

This year we’ve seen unprecedented consolidation in the technology market. The story that perhaps best defined 2015 was Dell acquiring EMC for a whopping $67 billion, making it one of the biggest buys in the history of corporate trading.

The IP licensing business model. A love story.

Some months ago my colleague Rys Sommefeldt wrote an article offering his (deeply) technical perspective on how a chip gets made, from R&D to manufacturing. While his bildungsroman production covers a lot of the engineering details behind silicon production, it is light on the business side of things; and that is a good thing because […]

When SoC met IP.

In this article I’d like to address a common misconception that I often see reprinted in many articles. When presenting the relationship between IP vendors and chip makers, an image of fierce competition is repeatedly (and wrongfully) painted in the media.

Bytesize 0x16 (2015).

While everyone was going crazy over Android M, Brillo and other announcements from Google I/O 2015, I kept my eye on the prize. And there have been so many prizes this week.