Steve Jobs to John Markoff:
PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods
I blogged about the acquisition here and my speculation about the purpose of the acquisition is confirmed by the Jobs quote (if you believe that he is honest here). A couple of interesting things here:
The success of TI in the 1990s [...]
Tags: apple · iphone · semiconductors
There is a really interesting article the IEEE Spectrum by Clayton M. Christensen, Steven King, Matt Verlinden, and Woodward Yang. It basically tells the story of them apply the TPS (Toyota Production System) to semiconductor manufacturing and results of doing this. Pretty amazing results. The most amazing change is that this methodology allows smaller [...]
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