Word: semiconductor
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...turns out that as beautiful as a polished diamond is to look at, it also possesses physical and chemical properties that make it an ideal workhorse material for everything from semiconductors to biosensors. "To my mind, it's a case of finding what diamond enables that nothing else can do," says Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Because it conducts heat so well, for example, diamond could be particularly useful for the small-electronics industry, which relies on ever more powerful processors that generate incredible amounts of heat. (Just try working with your laptop...
...PlayStation 3, the fully loaded game machine that debuted in the North American market last week. "We've put a young guy in charge of the technology group to develop core software and media technologies, which we have not been good at," Stringer told TIME. Likewise, the components and semiconductor divisions have a new boss. And a global product-safety officer will make sure a battery fiasco doesn't recur. Out of this crisis, Stringer promised, "we're going to come out stronger and better organized...
...fully loaded game machine that debuts in the North American market Nov. 17. "We've put a young guy in charge of the technology group to develop core software and media technologies, which we have not been good at," Stringer told TIME last week. Likewise, the components and semiconductor divisions have a new boss. And a global product-safety officer will make sure a battery fiasco doesn't recur. Out of this crisis, Stringer promised, "we're going to come out stronger and better organized...
...phase of a $150 million mobile-phone factory in March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China and Malaysia. In fact, the Indian manufacturing sector expanded 9% last year, a key reason why the country...
International investors can be forgiven for never having heard of Motech, E-Ton or Sino-American Silicon. Compared with better-known Taiwan-based chip giants such as Taiwan Semiconductor and United Microelectronics, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, these three Taiwanese semiconductor plays have flown under most people's radar...