August is undoubtedly the month of Semiconductor. It started with the Flash Memory Summit for all things Flash Memory, then Intel's IDF and this week super technical Hot Chips conference is being held in Stanford University and graphics chip maker Nvidia's is taking over the city of San Jose with its own show, NVISION (pictured).

July was not bad either with Semicon West/InterSolar and Denali's Memcon. No wonder, Silicon Valley still holds its name after all!