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...Infineon Technologies Public company based in Munich, Germany CEO: Ulrich Schmacher What it does: Spun off from Siemens in 1999, Infineon makes memory products and semiconductor solutions Why it is hot: It is reporting strong margins in wireline communications, security and chip- card integrated circuits and in its automative and industrial business groups www.infineon.com | last year...
...Powerhouse Few dispute that there's one thing Japan does get, and that's the art of doing business. Asians admire powerhouse Japan, the economic marvel that pulled itself out of its postwar depths, made and exported the world's best cars, TVs and semiconductor chips, and served notice that the region was a global player. Asians acknowledge sharing in its success: in April, electronics giant Matsushita announced it will spend $16.1 billion to expand factories making mobile phones and other devices in Tianjin, China. In the postwar period through September 2000, Japan has funneled $172 billion in direct investment...
...CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR makes chips for mobile phones; telecom equipment; Internet hardware. "Cypress has the most high-tech sound with 'cy.' A tree known for its longevity...
...bear case. Some big European technology and telecom firms are in serious distress. Last week, just one day after celebrating its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, German electronics giant Siemens announced it would not meet its earlier sales and earnings targets. The firm's Infineon Technologies semiconductor unit was a victim of a global pullback in technology spending, which has sent memory chip prices plummeting. Sweden's Ericsson, owned directly or indirectly by half of that country's population, has announced that it will lose as much as $510 million in the first quarter instead of breaking even...
Still, if the Nobel rules allowed posthumous awards, Kilby would almost certainly be sharing his prize with someone else. For not long after Kilby's productive summer, Robert Noyce, another inventive young Midwesterner, began toying with similar ideas at an upstart outfit called Fairchild Semiconductor. But there was a key difference. Noyce, who had a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.--Kilby flunked the admissions test--used a new chemical etching technique. It could not only print transistors on silicon wafers directly, like patterns in a rug, but also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture...