Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reductions alone, however, will not be enough to restore IBM's competitive edge. Distracted by endless rounds of cutbacks, the company lost sight of the ball. IBM fumbled in market after market: it fell behind in computer-chip technology, and it engaged in a self-destructive battle with software powerhouse Microsoft over the direction of desktop-computer programs. Even worse, IBM began losing money and market share in two of its vital markets: mainframes and personal computers. Here IBM is faced with a double quandary: it remains the world leader in the market for mainframes, but the large systems...
...journey in reverse, there's a narrative chain to this that a lot of reviewers have not gotten, but that's their problem. There's this woman at The Boston Globe--Miss Pamela Hightower or somebody--and she says, "This young man quite clearly has a chip on his shoulder." I have no chip on my shoulder at all; I have the universe on my shoulder, and she doesn't understand this. [She thinks], "Some guy with a Latino name, writing about his father--well, this must be an ethnic memoir." I'm writing about her, I'm writing about...
...acknowledged goal of non-ordered choice is to chip away at house identities produced by homogeneous populations. At the same time, students retain something resembling a right to choose. This situation has produced the following statistic: 80 to 90 percent of first-year students receive one of their four choices in the housing lottery...
American chipmakers are also profiting from some Japanese misfortunes. Japanese semiconductor companies have been able to dominate world markets by feeding chips to Japan's own consumer-electronics industry. About 42% of all chips made in Japan are consumed by such companies as Sony and Panasonic. But as global sales of TVs, VCRs, PCs and telephones have fallen because of the worldwide economic slump, so have the fortunes of Japanese chip companies. At NEC, profits are down 71%; at Toshiba, earnings are off 39%. As a result, the Japanese have retreated from some markets. Fujitsu, for example, is closing...
Some U.S. chip-industry leaders want the government to do more. Many even call for a type of national industrial policy on the scale of Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry. While such direct intervention is a long shot, Washington has given the industry a big boost through formation of the Sematech consortium. Created by Congress in 1987, Sematech is a research-and-development group financed on a fifty-fifty basis by the Pentagon and a group of 12 U.S. electronics companies, including Intel, Motorola and IBM. Based in Austin, Sematech set out to restore U.S. dominance...