Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA): Who: GSA – Global Semiconductor Alliance
What: The Semiconductor Leaders Forum Taiwan brings together distinguished leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the semiconductor industry. In its sixth year, the event has put together a dynamic speaker line up that will focus on topics relating to [...]

The sixth annual GSA Semiconductor Leaders Forum Taiwan will be held at the Ambassador Hotel Hsinchu on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
Welcome remarks from Jodi Shelton, President, GSA, and Dr. Nicky Lu, chairman and chief executive officer, Etron Technology, Inc. and GSA Asia Pacific Leadership Council chairman, will initiate a half day of [...]

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced the program for its sixth annual Semiconductor Leaders Forum Taiwan, which will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, at the Ambassador Hotel Hsinchu, Taiwan. The theme of this year’s event focuses on “Clustering Collaboration” and will include keynote addresses from Joep van Beurden, chief executive officer of [...]

Monetary Value of Software Piracy Losses Increases to US$ 2.7 billion
The personal computer (PC) software piracy level in India registered 68 percent in 2008, a one point drop from 69% in 2007. However dollar losses caused by software piracy continued to increase, rising to US$2.7 billion in 2008 compared to losses of US$2 billion in [...]

McAfee (www.mcafee.com) has licensed DealBuilder NDAExpress to enable its business users to quickly and compliantly create new NDAs for their customers, and to help them better manage the confidentiality obligations in previously agreed NDAs.
DealBuilder NDAExpress is a complete request-to-archive NDA lifecycle management system. The legal department is able to rapidly query new and [...]

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today acknowledged receipt of an unsolicited proposal by Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS) to acquire Mentor Graphics at a price of $16.00 per share. Mentor Graphics confirmed that it previously rejected the proposal.
“As we recently indicated to Cadence, we reviewed Cadence’s proposal and analyzed both the price proposed and [...]

Popular OMAP3-based Product Anchored by SonicsMX® and Sonics3220™
Sonics Inc., a premier supplier of system-on-chip (SoC) SMART Interconnect solutions, today announced that Texas Instruments has adopted the SonicsMX and Sonics3220 SMART Interconnect solutions for use in its OMAP3430 application processor. The announcement represents the second generation of OMAP platforms using Sonics SMART Interconnect solutions. Texas [...]

Software Piracy Rates Fall in Sixty-Seven Countries; Worldwide Piracy Rate Rises Three Points to 38%
Although piracy of software on personal computers (PC) declined in many countries in 2007, fast growing PC markets in some of the world’s highest piracy nations caused overall numbers to worsen—a trend that is expected to continue. Moreover, dollar losses [...]

40 teachers from 20 reputed schools from across the country meet at a day long conference at IIT Delhi
New Delhi, Monday, April 21, 2008: LEGO Education, one of the world’s leading providers of complete robotics solutions designed to stimulate children’s creativity, problem-solving and team-working skills, and its Indian business representative – the Gurgaon based Techtronics [...]