ICT
Data protection towards digital isolation?
Two new Ordinances got gazetted on the 6th November creating a single, very heavy data regime together: ● the Personal Data Protection Ordinance (PDPO) governs privacy, rights and security of personal data; ● the National Data Governance Ordinance (NDGO) governs how all data – personal and non-personal – must sit inside a state-managed interoperability and DPI stack (BNDIA, NRDEX, etc.). Let us try to analyse the impact of these two laws on (a) global OTTs and (b) small/local data-handling businesses.
Apple silicon
that look good, feel good, and are perfect for the task. Apple has always been cautious about its 'look, feel, and work quality'. However, very few people are aware that Apple itself designs the tiny chips that power the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In fact, Apple was one of the main winners in the semiconductor world in the 'fabless revolution' that took place around the world under the leadership of TSMC.
How AI will tackle fraud in financial industry in Bangladesh
“Fraud is an uncommon, well-considered, imperceptibly concealed, time-evolving and often carefully organized crime which appears in many types of forms.” – Van Vlasselaer et al
The fabless revolution
There was once a saying in Silicon Valley: "Real Men Have Fabs" - that is, real semiconductor companies are those that have their own fabrication ('fab') plants or factories. But in the late 1980s, this idea changed completely with the help of a new generation. These entrepreneurs used to design chips themselves, but outsource the manufacturing work, whose main partners were companies like TSMC. This newly born business model is called the 'fabless model'.
Intel’s 'innovator’s dilemma'
On the stage of the Macworld Conference in San Francisco, history was about to be made in January, 2006. One after another, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Intel CEO Paul Otellini stepped onto the stage. That day, Jobs made a historic announcement: from now on, all Mac computers would run on Intel processors.
Historic battle over lithography
One day in 1992, Intel researcher John Carruthers approached the company’s CEO, Andy Grove, with a strange request. He asked for $200 million in funding to research a technology that no one was sure would even work. The technology was called Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Lithography—an ultra-precise process of etching electronic circuits onto silicon.
The beginning of China’s semiconductor industry
In 1987, two very different dreams were born in Asia. In Taiwan, Morris Chang set his sights on building a company called TSMC that would manufacture the world’s best chips. At the same time, in Shenzhen, China, Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei—a small business that purchased cheap telecom equipment from Hong Kong and sold it in the Chinese market.
Taiwan’s rise in semiconductors and birth of TSMC
One afternoon in 1985, Taiwan’s influential minister K.T. Li invited Morris Chang to his office. Nearly two decades earlier, it was Li who had persuaded Texas Instruments to set up the first chip factory in Taiwan.
Computer chip: Bonafide hero of Gulf War
US F-117 bombers took off silently from an air base in Saudi Arabia at the dawn of January 17, 1991. The target was Baghdad.
Rise of Korea: Enemy's enemy is an ally
Lee Byung-chul was an individual with natural, innate traits for entrepreneurship. He had a magical aura in dealing with business— he was successful in whatever business he took up. In 1938, when the drums of war were rolling out all around, and Korea was under Japanese rule and at war with China, he started his dream company, Samsung.