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...Lucent spin-off. In 2000 he joined an optics firm called OMM Inc. that tanked with the telecom sector in 2003. Stints with a venture-capital firm and optical- component maker Bookham Inc. followed. Burke's former boss Phil Chapman, now CFO with Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. in San Diego, calls him "fearless." Fearlessness will serve Burke well now. "You don't want to be partnering with a customer who expects this to be simple," says another of Burke's former bosses, John Hughes...
...FINED. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor; $300 million, in connection with charges of price-fixing; by the U.S. District court; in San Francisco. Samsung was charged with colluding with industry rivals from 1999 to 2002 to fix the prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in everything from cell phones to laptops, forcing major computer manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple to raise prices to compensate. The fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history...
Rick Tsai CHIP CZAR Don't tell Tsai, 54, the new CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), that replacing a legend is daunting. Chip mogul Morris Chang, who founded TSMC in 1987 and built it into the world's largest manufacturer of custom-made chips, named Tsai, a 15-year TSMC veteran, his successor. (Chang remains chairman.) Tsai is already forecasting a gaudy 43% quarterly gross-profit margin for the $8 billion company. Tsai knows TSMC inside out, having held nearly every senior position, and has lived up to his strong nickname: Buffalo. --By Joyce Huang/Taipei...
...Source: Semiconductor Industry Association
...measure similar to one already passed by the House of Representatives that would curb textile and apparel shipments from a dozen exporters, including South Korea and Hong Kong. In addition, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a preliminary ruling that low-priced Japanese products were hurting the American semiconductor industry. That could lead to import restrictions on computer chips...