參訪矽統科技

Notes on my visit to SIS (http://www.sis.com.tw/) on Tuesday. Good discussions over afternoon meetings and dinner with CEO and Chairman.

- A chip design company has tried hard to find new directions in recent years.
- Designing consumer products: TV codecs, touch screen, touch pad, e-books
- Going for Android and Cloud Computing
- Would like to collaborate with universities
- Would like universities to train students in system software

Taiwan's industry is changing... both companies and students need a different thinking. How about teachers? It is probably harder for established professors to change their mindset.

Mobile Multitasking (iPhone vs Android)

Since Apple annouced iPhone 4.0 with support for multitasking, discussions about mobile multitasking are getting hot these days. Here I summarize the links to the discussions:

http://davidquintana.com/entry/mobile-multitasking
Comparing the models of "multithreading" between Android and iPhone 4.0

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/17/inside_iphone_os_4_0_multitasking_vs_mac_os_x_android.html
An article from an iPhone and Apple supporter. There is also an interesting discussion about unified development tools: Clang, LLVM and Xcode, at the end of this article.

The State of the Internet Operating System

Tim O'Reilly 在2010-03-29寫了篇有趣的文章：
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/state-of-internet-operating-system.html

由幾年前熱門的 Web2.0到現在，軟體與網路的人怎麼看世界，由這篇可以一瞥究竟。除了作者本人的觀點外，許多不錯的讀者回應，還有作者與讀者的討論，也很有教育性。