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Cypress CEO Chat | 5G to 6G | Why Taiwan Companies are Leaving China | Startups in Taiwan

EE Times Current · 3 May 2019 · 20m

What this episode covers

Danny Rabin and Dylan McGrath interview Cypress Semiconductor CEO Hassane El-Khoury about his transition from mentor TJ Rogers and his early engineering inspiration in Lebanon. Martin Rowe reports from the 5G Brooklyn Summit on the technical challenges of 6G, including terahertz signals and power consumption. Junko Yoshida and Judith Chen discuss the return of Taiwanese manufacturing to Taiwan and the government's push to foster a new startup ecosystem focused on hardware-software integration.

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large enterprises and companies scaling up

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Cypress Semiconductor, NYU Wireless, TSMC, UMC, Disney
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TJ Rogers

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