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...thesis, Carlson, an engineering concentrator in Lowell House, designed a small computer chip, which, he said, could “give the precision of a human hand” to any small motorized device...
Carlson said his design improved upon motor chip controls that are commonly used in many electric devices, giving them a more sophisticated ability to “learn” specific motions...
...Wall Street, you may think you're buying a blue chip and end up holding WorldCom. That's how some advertisers felt last year when they bought traditional dramas and sitcoms and, come winter, saw them replaced by the likes of Are You Hot? Despite hits like Joe Millionaire, reality shows' ratings are unpredictable, and not everyone wants their snack chips associated with Lorenzo Lamas' laser pointer...
...guarded optimism about a tech rebound. "The thing we are really waiting for is an enterprise commitment to upgrade," said Intel chief financial officer Andy Bryant recently. It's not surprising that he sees it that way, since computers and servers used in businesses and telecommunications networks traditionally drive chip growth. This time around, consumer sales are driving: autos, PCs, DVD players, MP3 devices, set-top boxes, cell phones and digital cameras. Jean-Philippe Dauvin, chief economist at STMicroelectronics, says that from the mid-'90s until the end of last year, a typical European car like the VW Golf contained...
...which European semiconductor manufacturer is best poised to win? Europe's biggest semiconductor manufacturers - STMicroelectronics and Infineon - are ranked fourth and seventh in the world respectively. Each company is pursuing a different strategy. Infineon is determined to maintain a range of products from the highly cyclical drams - a computer chip that acts as a temporary storage depot for data while the computer performs a task - to "logic" chips used in devices such as mobile phones. Meanwhile, Schumacher hopes to offset the downturn in the dram cycle by being strong in logic chips, which are less prone to business swings. Currently...