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It’s official: Tier Logic will cease to be in business on Friday July 16, 2010. The company has been trying to close its second round of funding, but it became clear last week that no short-term funding from a new VC would come, despite some due diligence by two lead investors. [...] Continue reading RIP Tier Logic The past two weeks were pretty interesting if you follow FPGAs. Yes, Xilinx and Altera kept upping their target to Wall St., but that is not where the excitement came from. It came from the recent announcements of two startups, both created in 2003 and heavily funded. Tabula released its long-awaited device, which goes [...] Continue reading Can Tabula and Tier Logic be successful? November 1st, 2009 | Tags: Business, Google, Microsoft, search, startup, Twitter | Category: Business
Lots has been written and hyped about Twitter since its creation three years ago. Twitter has been touted as the fastest growing social network (19% of U.S. Internet users tweet), and a communication medium with still unforeseen capabilities. The company [...] Continue reading Continue reading What is Twitter’s next step? I was today in Sun Microsystems offices, which co-hosted the TechCrunch Munich event. Mike Butcher, editor TechCrunch Europe, was here to take about 150 attendants through a few presentations and 12 startup pitches. I promised I would write about what I liked, so here it goes. The breakroom had a tweeter wall with live reaction of [...] Continue reading What was hot at the TechCrunch Munich event? After the giant TechCrunch 50 last September in San Francisco, TechCrunch continues to host smaller events in several cities. Next in line is TechCrunch Munich, which will be held on Tuesday Oct. 20th at the Sun Microsystems offices in Munich. The gathering is an opportunity for local entrepreneurs and techies to network, as well [...] Continue reading What to see at the TechCrunch Munich event? The FPGA market has been entrenched in a duopoly for a number of years now. In 2008, according to Gartner Inc., Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp. hold together 87% of the market of programmable logic (51.2% and 35.5% respectively). The rest of the market is covered mostly by Actel Corp. and Lattice Semiconductor Corp., about 6% [...] Continue reading Why FPGA startups keep failing |
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