Word: semiconductor
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When an engineer at a semiconductor factory in Watertown, Mass., collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest, David Collins, the plant's health-and-safety manager, was on the scene in two minutes with an automated external defibrillator (AED), a device that can jolt a heart back to its normal rhythm. precious minutes before paramedics could arrive, Collins followed prompts from the AED and gave the engineer two electric pulses that saved his life...
...March 2000, the height of the technology bubble, and Ulrich Schumacher wanted to drive a point home to the world's investors. His semiconductor company, Infineon Technologies, was about to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Like another Schumacher - Formula One star Michael - the CEO is serious about racing, so he cruised down Wall Street in a F-1 car. Infineon's stock sped out of the starting blocks on March 13, 2000 and hit a high on the Frankfurt exchange of €92.50 in June. Then demand for semiconductors slumped, and Infineon hit a slick...
...semiconductor industry will not succeed in achieving the growth rates observed in the past just with faster processors and more money. - ULRICH SCHUMACHER, CEO, Infineon technologies
...such numbers make other analysts salivate, because they hint that the embattled tech sector may finally be coming out of the doldrums. "Semiconductors are the feed for the rest of the technology industry, at least for hardware," says Steve Cullen, director of semiconductor research at In-Stat/MDR, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based technology research group. Indeed, some tech heavyweights are coming out of the closet to say that the worst is over. Executives of Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, demonstrated guarded optimism about a tech rebound. "The thing we are really waiting for is an enterprise commitment to upgrade...
...auto-driven race to capitalize on new growth, 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...