Thursday, June 27, 2019

Podcasts!

I know i'm laaaaate, but i just dived into the fun & power of podcasts (mainly while commuting).

So much  interesting content out there!

Currently i listen to news-podcasts and technical channels.

First highlight: https://www.se-radio.net/2019/04/363-jonathan-boccara-on-understanding-legacy-code/

Thursday, June 06, 2019

Mergers: SW Companies

     IBM
       <---     Rational


                            
                                                        <--- Dynatrace
                                                    Compuware
                                                        --->  (spinoff)

                               <--- Serena               
                Borland--->
                               <--- Novell/Suse
                               <-------------------(test/SQ)
                         MicroFocus
                                                              Broadcom
                                                                   -----> (chips) avago
                                                       CA ------>
                        
                    

Mergers: Semiconductor Industry

I've worked for Infineon and Fujitsu in the past, know some ppl in that field and i'm interested in it generally, so let's sketch the Splits and Mergers of the recent past:








2000
                                              Qualcomm
     Infineon(Siemens) 
2006     '---> Quimonda(-2009)

     IFX Wireless  

2007                                                             LSI+Agere(Lucent)
                  
2011     '---> Intel 


                     AMD
                         Fujitsu Semi
 
2013                  '---'---> Spansion
 
2014                               '-----> Cypress


                                                                 LSI -> Avago
2015                      '------------------------->Socionext  
                                                                 NXP(Philips) <-- Freescale                               
2016                                                             Microchip <-- Atmel



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