Well, now we’ll see if the government does something about the sale. It looks like an automatically triggered review will take place. The size of the deal triggered the review, but the government may be able to stop it. We’ll see what comes out of this–I hope they are at least thinking about what Mr. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘engineering’
Nortel – a review of the Avaya purchase
September 25, 2009Nortel comes up again.
September 23, 2009As a true intersection of electronics engineering, politics, and my home city of Ottawa, Nortel will always be a big story for me. Although I have never worked there myself, I know many who have, and some who are still there right now. It is a company that truly affects the Ottawa (and to some [...]
Conversation is still ongoing…
September 23, 2009Just wanted to point out the fact that the US engineering discussion is still ongoing on EE Times. What makes this interesting is that we also have at least two active participants who are currently in China. Check out the thread here. I must admit that if I were without mortgage and family, I might [...]
Are US engineers at a disadvantage?
September 18, 2009A great discussion is taking place right now on EE Times.com . Great views on engineering skills and employment, with lots of talk about the issue of off-sourcing. The comments are coming in from around the world. Check it out here.
Engineering Unemployment
August 24, 2009Embedded guru Jack Ganssle has recently blogged about the current state of Electronics Engineering in the US, and it is not a pretty picture. It looks like EE’s survived the early recession but are now in a bit of trouble–a bit of a delayed reaction. Read his thoughts here. On another note, I have heard [...]
Interesting article about Ottawa and tech.
July 4, 2009Unfortunately I do not think that Ottawa has been the tech hub of Canada for a while (probably since the 2000, 2001 meltdown). The sheer size and diversity of Toronto has meant that many high tech companies are there, but since they are a smaller proportion of the entire job count it is not seen as a [...]
Space exploration–is it worth it?
June 26, 2009Interesting debate on whether space exploration is worth it. I think it is a worthwhile investment, but don’t put too much money into it now. Bigger fish to fry. Keep funding the exploratory rockets and robots–humans can wait. See the early debate here.
Intel and the Tonight Show
June 24, 2009On the lighter side of things, Conan O’Brien visited Intel for his show. This ended up being a humourous clip of his time there. http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/intel/
Virtual conferences
June 18, 2009Don’t like to promote too much work stuff on this blog, but I’m really intrigued about EE Times Multicore Virtual Conference, and virtual conferences in general. Will these virtual conferences start to replace some (never all) regular conferences? And, speaking as an idealist here, could this open up conferences to more people in less prosperous [...]
Will semiconductors ever get an auto style bail-out?
June 9, 2009As I become ever busy with my job, son, dog, two cats, and the inevitable travel to visit family during the summer months, I let my colleague Dr. Don Scansen do some of the writing for me. He was just in D.C. and has some pretty interesting ideas on the auto bail-outs, and if the [...]
