It has been a while since we took a look at the emerging startup lists over at EETimes.com. To be frank, it has not been entirely our fault. When the 10th revision was published, EETimes.com for the first time decided to make only available for a fee. We figured eventually they would make it freely available and decided to pass. Well, it seems that rather than making it free, the 10th edition just simply vanished along with the on-demand web-site which hosted it. Luckily for us we managed to find a pdf version of the 10th edition hosted over here. EETimes.com has since also released the 11th edition of this list, free of charge this time, which we will examine shortly. Without any further ado, here is a quick list of the newly added companies in the 10th edition:
EETimes Silicon 60 List, version 10.0 summary
Henry Nothhaft, on job creation and startup funding
A little more than a year ago we reviewed a report by the Kauffman Foundation on future job creation titled “Where Will the Jobs Come From?” The report’s various charts led to a rather simple conclusion which stated that while large companies are important to the economy for a variety of reasons it is the small startups which in the United States have been the primary job creators. Since then it seems this notion only has been reinforced some more, this time by Henry Nothhaft during his recent speech at the Innovation Alliance Conference titled “Start-Up Reality: No Patent = No Funding, No Business, No Jobs.” Currently the president and CEO of Tessera, a company specializing in micro-electronic solutions as well as imaging and optics solutions and beforehand holding notable positions at several startups including Concentric, DSC Communications, GTE Telnet, Danger, and Endforce, Henry knows a thing or two about job creation.
chipcrunch.com, time for an upgrade
The first post on this site occurred way back when in June of 2007. Ever since then this site has been running on the old but trusty Joomla 1.0 platform. Overall it served us well, but as time moved on we found it ever harder to find module and extensions which were needed to keep the site fresh. Not to mention some of the components we utilized were no longer being supported and in some cases even became security risks. Thus, over the last month the decision was made to move this site to the Joomla 1.5 platform while minimizing any disruption to our readers. Moving all the content while preserving the feel and structure of the original site, including the exact same links structure, took some hard work, but with the help of the Joomla community as well as several excellent extensions things went pretty well - most of the time.
Zenverge, multi-format encoding, decoding, and transcoding
A lot has been happening as of late on the high definition (HD) video streaming front. Back in November we wrote about Celeno a startup specializing in wireless HD video streaming, A month earlier we wrote about Quantenna which is another semiconductor startup specializing in Wi-Fi chips which should allow for multiple concurrent 1080p streams. And of course last year we also attended the the GSA Luncheon where DirectTV discussed their plans for content distribution within the house. With all the talk about distribution, it seems that relatively little attention has been paid to the fact that many of the devices which consume this content tend to come in different form factors. As a consequence these devices tend to support different resolutions, different standards, as well as different types of encryption, which is precisely where Zenverge comes in.
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@icdboss noted, hopefully they will have a better experience dealing with Samsung locally, given the company's large presence in Austin