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March 2010 Issue - EE Times Confidential

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Multi-screen wars: MediaTek/Mstar vs. Qualcomm, Marvell, Nvidia
The larger significance of the merging of Taiwan’s “M Brothers” may have escaped the notice of some western observers.

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March 2010

Intel’s Textbook Example for Fostering Tech Entrepreneurs

Intel has hit on a way to foster tech entrepreneurship: put it in the syllabus. It’s no secret that the chip giant invests large sums in startups through its venture capital arm, Intel Capital, or that it funds research institutes and collaborative R&D. What is less well known is that Intel (and a smattering of other industry titans, such as IBM) also nudges academic curricula in directions it favors — influencing not just technology course offerings, but also programs in business and entrepreneurship.

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