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...total, this region should be 5% to 8% of your stock portfolio--easily accomplished through proven funds like Matthews Pacific Tiger and the fund run by Greig, who likes Asian consumer-electronics companies, including Samsung, Canon, Sharp, Pioneer and Taiwan Semiconductor. They have lower prices relative to earnings than U.S. tech companies, plus established export businesses and the best positioning to serve Asia's expanding local markets...
SMITH: The beginning part of the recovery has tracked what you would have thought. Aggressive-growth companies have done well: biotech, semiconductor companies, Internet companies--stocks you thought were going to go out of business. And so have big companies whose stock has come down dramatically, like EMC and Ericsson. Now it's a more level playing field, and the premium for quality companies over average companies is very small. So I think you would want to buy quality. You'd rather buy Wal-Mart, vs. J.C. Penney or Dell, vs. Hewlett-Packard...
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...
...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...