Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...

Intel CFO Andy Bryant says that 2006 was a year when chipmaker AMD won some marketing battles with better products. But that changed in the 4th quarter of the year when Intel was able to start applying pricing pressure to its rival. More to the point: Intel will retool ...

You might think Moore’s Law comes with an ancillary set of steps on how to adhere to it. The Law essentially says that technology develops so swiftly that chip engineers can pack twice as many transistors on a piece of silicon every two years. Performance jumps dramatically but the business ...

ShieldZone Founder Phillip Chipping and CEO Robert Pedersen speak with Brad Baldwin about the benefits of protected, “naked” gadgets. Industrial designers are working hard to create the sexiest and sleekest products. Why hide the design behind a bulky, unattractive case?

Chipping took a protective film developed to

Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drive took a break at the PodTech Bloghaus during the start of the International CES to talk about the new line of small form factor drives unveiled by Seagate at the show in Las Vegas. This is a Seagate podcast.

Stars and celebs turned-out recently for a hip housewarming party at Hollywood’s coolest new crib. The Esquire House 360° is a 17,000 square-foot Italian villa set among the stylish and exclusive mansions of Beverly Hills. This hip home is situated on three-acres of land with panoramic views of Southern California. Built and decorated with the latest materials and craftsmanship, the house seamlessly incorporates technology into each room, demonstrating how high fashion and high tech together are essential to the modern man.

SANTA CLARA, California, October 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Conventional wisdom says the mobile industry is set to explode with content offerings. After all, the billions of handsets in the world dwarfs the market penetration of the iPod. “In reality that situation doesn’t suddenly explode,” says ARM Holdings CEO Warren ...

Ted Vucurevich, Chief Technical Officer at Cadence Design Systems, gave a keynote at Cadence’s CDNLive! event at the San Jose Convention Center, “Designing the Future.” Right after his address, Vucurevich talked with PodTech.net about the future of the chip design process. Vucurevich, who serves on the steering committee the Cadence ...

The cell chip is the heart, soul and brain of the Sony Playstation 3 game console. Cell is essentially a super-computer on a chip, and when PS3 comes out this fall, it’s going to take gaming to a whole new level. Mike Fister, President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, ...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., President and CEO Mike Fister kicked off the CDN Live Silicon Valley conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center by unveiling Virtuoso, a new chip design platform, and Xtreme III, a hardware-assisted verification system used at the end of the chip ...

Jim Kahle, IBM Fellow with IBM Corporation, revealed some of the secret ingredients of innovating through collaboration during his keynote address at the Cadence Design Systems CDNLive Conference, Silicon Valley. Kahle was a key player in the creation of Cell Broadband Engine processor, an accelerator extension to IBM Power Architecture ...

MENLO PARK, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the wake of laptop computer battery fires and explosions,Dell, Inc. and Apple Computer both announced recalls of over 6 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries over the last two weeks. That’s what looks like the story. But the real story is, as more and more functionality is crammed into a single device, why isn’t the industry giving consumers batteries that not only don’t overheat, but can power all the functions on all the devices we’re buying, and being sold?

Randy Thom, one of the film industry’s leading film sound designers, says he appreciates the capabilities of faster computer chips and higher performance storage in systems. But he echoes the sentiments of every I.T. manager: he doesn’t want to be forced to think about them. PodTech’s Jason Lopez caught up ...

Moore’s Law “could slow or maybe even stop,” offered Mike Fister, CEO of Cadence Design Systems. Before heading off to sit on a TiEcon session on the semiconductor industry.

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2006 (PodTech News) The chipmaker Intel says its vPro platform–like its Centrino wireless brand for laptops–is designed to save businesses energy costs by improving efficiency and performance in fleets of desktop PCs. Intel chief Paul Otellini compared vPro to the company’s successful wireless mobile chip ...

PodTech News’ Jason Lopez and John Furrier were on hand for Intel’s private briefing to jounalists and analysts regarding their technical research roadmap. Intel is creating an open and transparent environment in disclosing their research plans around the future of computing. This is part of a comprehensive ...

The New Mac Mini has revived the buzz over TV and music on computers. We’re not really there yet, though many companies are betting that TV will come to our computers over the Internet in a truly workable way by the end of the year. Ajay Malhotra of chip design ...

I sat down with Darren Lee, NextPage CEO and President in Utah. Darren’s years of entrepreneurial experience bring him rich perspective in his field. As co-founder of Knowlix Darren has become a guru in the document market. We spoke of the many ...