Former president and COO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Atiq Raza, has teamed up with a group of chip specialists to form Raza Foundries. Raza Foundries will provide hands-on engineering, management and funding to accelerate product development...
If you ask CIOs themselves though, the picture is far less straightforward. Frank Coyle, IT director at John Menzies, told silicon.com it's simply not possible for CIOs to put day-to-day systems management on auto-pilot, and concentrate on 'greater...
The other thing about Adams - which is unusual for this interview series at least, where past subjects have been CIOs and IT directors - is that he is actually a COO. Adams acknowledges the prophetic words of former Safeway CIO Ric Francis in an...
silicon.com's panel of CIOs has dismissed research this week claiming IT directors are becoming more isolated than ever from the business. This is, by definition, the effect of utility computing; no-one calls the electricity company thank them for...
We have heard separately about the mega pay cheques of two CIOs. Of course anyone can still start a debate about whether executives in general are overpaid or whether strategies such as outsourcing or 'open sourcing' - a phrase used by CIO JP...
Microsoft believes it has to cosy up to the entertainment industry if the PC is going to form the centre of new digital home networks, which could allow such features as streaming high-definition movies around the home.