ARM's chairman calls for collaboration

Dylan McGrath, EE Times
(03/13/2006 2:42 PM EST)
 
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The old methods for product design and development do not scale in an era when market windows are shrinking rapidly and electronics markets are being driven by fashion and style, according to Robin Saxby, chairman of ARM Holdings plc.

Delivering a keynote address at the 9th Annual Semico Summit here Monday (March 13), Saxby said solving present and future yield challenges requires collaboration between intellectual property (IP) vendors, EDA tool suppliers and chip makers.

"The only way we resolve these issues as an industry is we have to work together," Saxby said. "We need collaboration and standards. We need to share information and knowledge."

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