Mad Mike Magee’s Musings

BIG BLUE and Taiyo Nippon Sanso are apparently creating a gas which will be used in the fabrication of 32 nanometre and later generations of semiconductor chips, according to nikkei.net.

What this gas is a mystery wrapped in an enigma variation, because they didn’t bother to say what it is.

But it will be “very pure”, apparently and will be ready in 2011. There’s more, but not much more, here. ♦

AMD HIRED a Brit who worked at Sun and IBM to oversee its worldwide marketing.

Nigel Dessau was senior vice president of storage at Sun, and before that worked for Storagetek and prior to that IBM.

He’s from Nottingham. He doesn’t appear from his picture to have the flamboyant taste in ties that marked Henri Richard out as a semiconductor peacock.♦

INDIAN BIZ newspaper Mint reports that Dell has shut down its R&D centre in Bangalore and moved whatever was being done there to Taiwan and to Texas.Local manager of Dell India seems to be contradicting this in the same report. He claims Dell will hire an additional engineers and product development people by the end of this year.

That fact is part of a report suggesting that US corporations will be cautious about spending money on IT given the state of the economy.

It quotes Indian firm Tata as saying that its consultancy services have already started feeling the pain and two its top 15 US clients have drawn back on orders.

But if Dell is withdrawing, IBM is throwing more energy into India. It’s already committed to spending $6 billion over the next three years. ♣

* This below is part of Dell’s sprawling complex in Bangalore. The script is Dell’s logo in Kannada, the local lingo.