As technologies advance, the semiconductor industry and its traditional business model face a myriad of ongoing complexities demanding an ever accelerating state of operational agility. The electronics and healthcare markets are experiencing unprecedented change through mass market consumerization and global adoption. For most chip companies, gone are the days of long run product cycles and […]
The 3 Phases of Start-up Life Cycle
Continuing the topical thread we started in our previous blog post, all semiconductor, sensor, and module start-up’s traditionally experience three unique and interrelated stages in their growth journey to get to high volume: Pre-Ramp, Production Ramp and Production Breadth. The ability to successfully manage and navigate within and across each stage may best be addressed […]
How to Overcome Challenges to Scaling Production Ramp?
One of the biggest challenges faced by semiconductor and IoT operations and finance executives everywhere is scaling effectively and efficiently. As production ramps and organizational complexity increases, companies worldwide need to equip themselves early on to mitigate execution risks and the (albeit positive) chaos accompanying hockey stick growth. Tensoft recently hosted a webcast, ‘Challenges to […]
Semiconductor Startups Need to Run (While Still Learning to Walk)
Semiconductor design-based organizations span multiple technologies as varied as silicon and compound integrated circuits, MEMS devices, LED, RF, solid state, and solar technologies. They also manage global production synchronization across multiple vendors and intricate processes, such as a multiple die package or multichip modules and sensors. Conventional wisdom suggests that more mature product companies employ […]
What Would Paul Revere Shout about Revenue Restatements?
Paul Revere is most famously known for “The Midnight Ride” and his repeated warnings, “The redcoats are coming!” As it relates to the idea of improper revenue recognition, we opine his prescient chants would proclaim “The red ink is coming!” at the dawn of the restatement announcement. In a previous blog, we recently profiled Osiris […]
What would Benjamin Franklin say about Revenue Recognition?
The quote “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is as prudent today as first written by American forefather Ben Franklin. As it applies to revenue recognition, the axiom is a truth we (at Tensoft) hold to be self-evident. Yet according to a 2014 report by Audit Analytics, revenue recognition accounted for […]
GaN Systems Inc. Looks to Scale using Tensoft Solutions
Tensoft is excited to announce a new semiconductor client win with GaN Systems Inc. located in Ottawa Canada. GaN Systems is the leading manufacturer of gallium nitride high power transistors for consumer, enterprise, industrial, solar/wind/smartgrid, and transportation power conversion applications. The company will take advantage of Tensoft’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to manage end-to-end semiconductor ERP […]