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...MORRIS CHANG Born in mainland China and edu-cated in the U.S., Chang, 70, is credited with creating Taiwan's semiconductor industry. The firm he founded in 1987, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, has become a global leader, building microchips for everything from PCs to cell phones while leaving the design to others. This approach has freed small chip designers from having to build their own factories, resulting in more competition and innovation. Despite the global tech slump, Chang just announced a $20 billion expansion...
...microchip industry worldwide is mired in a slump, with prices falling and many factories closing. But Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., posted third-quarter earnings that were better than expected. He believes the rebound has begun, and he announced a $20 billion expansion. Chang, 70, an avid contract-bridge player educated at Stanford and MIT, founded TSMC in 1987 and has made it the industry leader...
TWISTED The Origami, a "concept" (read unfinished) device from National Semiconductor, combines a removable digital video and still camera, MP3 player, videoconferencing terminal, cell phone, mini-keyboard, Windows PC and wireless Internet browser in a single plastic case the size of a paperback novel. It changes function by twisting into seemingly endless positions and should be available late next fall...
...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
...some people keep seeing something out there. Goldman Sachs kicked off the action Monday by running with the semiconductor bulls and declaring that the sector was definitely at a bottom. "The recovery writing is on the wall," the company wrote Monday morning, "and we don't see how investors will be able to resist the inflection point...