February 2019 -

Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare: Made in India, by India

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Silicon Valley tech giants, among them Amazon, Google and Facebook, are coming under increasing public, administrative, and national scrutiny over internal company policies that govern how they operate, locate, and…

The Great, the Bad, and the Ugly in Silicon Valley

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace | 0 Comments

Income disparity is a problem. Silicon Valley is adding high-income households. But it is losing middle-income and low-income households. The top 2 percent of wage earners in Silicon Valley command…

Winter in Silicon Valley, China Sizzles

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Photo: China is building a particle collider almost four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and it is expected to produce over one million Higgs boson particles in…

Reports: Is New York GlobalFoundries looking for an exit?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

This posting clarifys an error in the second paragraph of an earlier story that incorrectly identified the wafers produced at GF’s fabs in New York as 200mm. They are in…

GlobalFoundries New York: For Sale?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

GlobalFoundries chipmaking operation in New York – the one taking a pass on the 7nm semiconductor manufacturing process node – is up for sale according to industry source ComputerBasereport. “A…

Jobs and New York’s Green New Deal

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Clean Tech, and New York’s Green New Deal, have common objectives: cleaner air, fewer emissions, more efficient fuel use. If that mix leads to the development of new technology, new…

30 Tech Hot Spots in New York

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

If you drive a car in New York you have probably driven by at least one or two officially designated ‘innovation hot spots,’ maybe in an old industrial zone? And…

Student entrepreneurs swap classrooms for startup

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Have you ever wondered what’s driving today’s tech startup funding curve on the university campus? Two words: Student entrepreneurship. Some of the greatest technology companies in Silicon Valley’s were launched…

IBM’s AI Hot Spot: Tech Valley New York

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Tech Valley is the next Artificial Intelligence Hot Spot, a designation that follows recent reports that IBM Research will build a cutting-edge technology center for AI hardware in New York’s…

What’s going down in Silicon Valley?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

What’s going down in Silicon Valley? The headlines tell a big part of part of the story, but only one part. How complete and accurate a picture one gets about…