Word: micron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again in a hotel room (this time in D.C.), I had to watch when Henderson, reaching for immortality, apparently won the Series with another homer in the 10th inning of game six, and, with two outs and nobody on, the Sox came--not once but four times--within a micron of taking it all, only to blow it once again...
...record quarterly loss of $114.2 million. Advanced Micro Devices said it lost $46.9 million during the comparable quarter and announced its first layoffs in a decade, dismissing 500 of its 13,300 workers. Many smaller companies that have developed highly advanced manufacturing processes, notably GCA of Andover, Mass., and Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho, are now in deep financial trouble. "There's no question that we're in the fight of our lives right now," says Ralph Thomson, senior vice president of the American Electronics Association...
...least one company, Texas Instruments, has stubbornly refused to give up the race with the Japanese to make ever more densely packed memory chips. Its experimental, 4 million-bit chip contains components smaller than one micron, or .000039 of an inch. Now that the company has created a superchip, the tougher task will be to manufacture them by the millions before the wily Japanese can catch...
...Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho, is another near instant success. Founded by Twin Brothers Ward and Joseph Parkinson, the company started in 1981 with a cash infusion from an investment group headed by J.R. Simplot, one of the nation's largest potato processors. The following January Micron began shipping a memory chip that was smaller and more efficient than those produced by other U.S. firms. Sales took off, and the company went public with its stock last summer. Initially offered for $14 each, Micron shares rose as high as $40½ and are now trading for about...