Returning to the moon will be risky. NASA must acknowledge those risks and work tirelessly to reduce them.

Breaking into the contract chip manufacturing business and gaining the trust of the world’s biggest fabless semiconductor suppliers will remain difficult goals for Intel Foundry Services as long as it remains an outpost of the microprocessor vendor.

Electronics and semiconductor executives base critical capex and other management actions involving billions of dollars on how accurately they can predict the industry’s sales cycles. They mucked up the last time. Here’s how a repeat can be avoided.

A Berlin-based think tank offers a graphical and analytical overview on “Who is funding the chips of the future?”

Semiconductor executives are directly liable for the flawed forecasts and capital expenditure misses that trigger the industry’s boom and bust cycles. They cannot keep deflecting the blames.