NXP-- WTF?

In message <44F990AB.B8DD91C4@earthlink.net>, dated Sat, 2 Sep 2006, 
Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> writes
>   It would be a lot easier for you to keep your eye on the road if you 
>let all those ducks go.

He's looking after them for the Australian cricket Test team, I hope. 
(;-)
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John Woodgate wrote:
> 
> In message <44F990AB.B8DD91C4@earthlink.net>, dated Sat, 2 Sep 2006,
> Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> writes
> >   It would be a lot easier for you to keep your eye on the road if you
> >let all those ducks go.
> 
> He's looking after them for the Australian cricket Test team, I hope.
> (;-)


   I figured that by now when someone yells "DUCK" you'd say, "No
thanks, I have plenty." ;-)


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"Spehro Pefhany" ...
> If you like some neutral-accented dude named "Steve" who needs his
> hair combed and movies of people leaping around surging ribbons of
> somewhat sickly colors: http://www.what-if-you-could.com/ (and links
> to hi-res photos of beaming executives)
>
> Or their real website: http://www.nxp.com/index.html
>


Spehro,

Also trying to wan the MP3 player???            ;-)

    http://www.what-if-you-could.com/download/Terms_and_Conditions.pdf

Regards
Arie de Muijnck

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:18:46 +0200, the renowned "Arie de Muynck"
<send.spam.to@spammer.org> wrote:

>"Spehro Pefhany" ...
>> If you like some neutral-accented dude named "Steve" who needs his
>> hair combed and movies of people leaping around surging ribbons of
>> somewhat sickly colors: http://www.what-if-you-could.com/ (and links
>> to hi-res photos of beaming executives)
>>
>> Or their real website: http://www.nxp.com/index.html
>>
>
>
>Spehro,
>
>Also trying to wan the MP3 player???            ;-)
>
>    http://www.what-if-you-could.com/download/Terms_and_Conditions.pdf
>
>Regards
>Arie de Muijnck


Hey, certainly not! Chasing that crappy premium would involve spamming
individual people's e-mails via their website form, for which I'd get
no end of grief. There's no way for them to tie any visits from usenet
(or anywhere else) to me. 

Besides, I've been busy on an odd job sourcing a whole whack of
low-end MP3 players and you would hardly believe how cheap those
things are these days at the factory door.  

I prefer to present the information in a public forum so all can make
"constructive" criticism of their advertising campaign. ;-)  


Best regards, 
Spehro Pefhany
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Hello Michael,

>>
>>Okay, so Philips has spun off their semiconductor division (apparently
>>as a whole, unlike Motorola's bifurcated spinoff) into something
>>called NXP, with a glitzy campaign now underway.
>>
>>If you like some neutral-accented dude named "Steve" who needs his
>>hair combed and movies of people leaping around surging ribbons of
>>somewhat sickly colors: http://www.what-if-you-could.com/ (and links
>>to hi-res photos of beaming executives)
>>
>>Or their real website: http://www.nxp.com/index.html
>>
>>Any thoughts as to what this means to the future of Philips
>>semiconductors, and to their high-end microcontrollers in particular?
>>
>>I'm guessing we might see less emphasis on the low margin parts like
>>jellybean discretes.
> 
>    They wanted comments.  Here is what I told them:
> 
> What a waste of time. Choppy, crappy animation is the last thing I want
> to see when I'm looking for components. The harder it is to use your
> websites, the more sales you will lose.
> 
>  You are not selling to the general public.  Your customers want to find
> the data needed to make design choices.  If you make it too difficult
> they go to your competitors, and may never come back.  Its your choice.
> 

I could almost bet they won't listen. I tried that years ago. Wrote to 
the big chief, didn't even get as much as a form letter back. So I just 
dumped them during designs, mostly. IMHO the problem behind a lack of 
profitability in a large company is often management itself.

They would be well advised to sit down and figure out what had gone 
wrong the last 1-2 decades. Look at key competitors. Or to say it 
bluntly, figure out why TI is a lot more profitable than Philips was. 
That's what needs to be done now. With some luck they may have the 
freedom to change things since Philips only has a minority stake left.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Hello Spehro,


>>>If you like some neutral-accented dude named "Steve" who needs his
>>>hair combed and movies of people leaping around surging ribbons of
>>>somewhat sickly colors: http://www.what-if-you-could.com/ (and links
>>>to hi-res photos of beaming executives)
>>>
>>>Or their real website: http://www.nxp.com/index.html
>>>
>>Also trying to wan the MP3 player???            ;-)
>>
>>   http://www.what-if-you-could.com/download/Terms_and_Conditions.pdf
> 
> Hey, certainly not! Chasing that crappy premium would involve spamming
> individual people's e-mails via their website form, for which I'd get
> no end of grief. There's no way for them to tie any visits from usenet
> (or anywhere else) to me. 
> 
> Besides, I've been busy on an odd job sourcing a whole whack of
> low-end MP3 players and you would hardly believe how cheap those
> things are these days at the factory door.  
> 
> I prefer to present the information in a public forum so all can make
> "constructive" criticism of their advertising campaign. ;-)  
> 

I sure hope NXP comes to realize that they are not dealing with some 
kids as customers but engineers. And soon.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Gene S. Berkowitz wrote:
> Thanks, Jim.  I meant that it doesn't show up in the initial table of 
> 16/32-bit ARM parts on this page:
> 
> http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers/32bit/index.html
> 
> ..which is the first page you get to after drilling down from the home 
> page.

Ah, yes, that's the general slackness in the Philips site, where 
completely different departments must manage the Product Catalogue, and
the new product releases, and it takes weeks to make it from one,
into the other....

-jg

Joerg wrote:
> 
> I could almost bet they won't listen. I tried that years ago. Wrote to
> the big chief, didn't even get as much as a form letter back. So I just
> dumped them during designs, mostly. IMHO the problem behind a lack of
> profitability in a large company is often management itself.
> 
> They would be well advised to sit down and figure out what had gone
> wrong the last 1-2 decades. Look at key competitors. Or to say it
> bluntly, figure out why TI is a lot more profitable than Philips was.
> That's what needs to be done now. With some luck they may have the
> freedom to change things since Philips only has a minority stake left.


   Joerg, its a sure sign they aren't going to listen, or the "Comment"
button wouldn't have been so obvious.  Its to make the new investors all
warm and fuzzy inside.  The only chance of any change is if the
investors are the first to see any comments.


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Alf Katz wrote:

> The new owners are led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to
> as KKR), whose takeover of Nabisco inspired the book  "Barbarians at the
> Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco".

Did you have to tell us this? I don't think I'll be able to sleep
tonight :-(

Maybe its time to look more closely at their competitors. I always had
trouble dealing with Philips tech support, and I can't imagine that it
will be better after the inevitable layoffs.

Eric

> The requirement for acronyms to be pronounceable is contentious. The classic 
> self-referencing acronym TLA (three-letter acronym) is not.

Of course "tla" is pronounceable!  ...it's the first syllable in Tlaxcala :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlaxcala

Pronounced  �tlah SKAH lah�