Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corp. An investor who bought $1,000 worth of Fairchild stock when it was selling at its 1958 low of 19½, and held onto it, last week would have had nearly $18,000 worth of stock. Fairchild makes a long list of imaginative products, ranging from a new silicon semiconductor to the first 8-mm. home sound motion-picture camera. It is one of the Street's most cherished buys, ranking with such rapid risers as Texas Instruments (72⅛ to 214¾ in 18 months), Polaroid (97¾ to 215½) and Universal Match...
...jokes about them. Jack Dreyfus, head of the $109 million Dreyfus Fund, recently satirized the glamour business: "Take a nice little company that's been making shoe laces for 40 years and sells at a respectable six times earnings ratio. Change the name from Shoelaces, Inc. to Electronics & Silicon Furth-burners. In today's market, the words 'electronics' and 'silicon' are worth 15 times earnings. However, the real play in this stock comes from the word 'furth-burners,' which no one under stands. A word that no one understands entitles...
Therefore, we have six times earnings for the shoelace business and 15 times earnings for electronic and silicon, or a total of 21 times earnings. Multiply this by two for furth-burners, and we now have a score of 42 times earnings for the new company." Concluded Dreyfus dryly: "In today's market, studying securities can be fatal. While you're studying them, they're apt to double, and by the time you find you wouldn't have bought them in the first place they will probably have tripled...
...Five minutes later, Bill Young sent another message, and Pioneer V obediently switched off its transmitter. Every hour on the half-hour Young turned the transmitter on and listened to its woo-woo sound for 15 minutes. Then he turned it off to permit the 4,800 silicon cells in Pioneer V's four "paddles" to recharge its storage batteries with solar-generated electricity. This routine was repeated successfully until the earth's rotation put Pioneer V below Jodrell Bank's horizon...
...amplifier is made by a new technique called molecular electronics. Westinghouse treats the molecules of germanium or silicon crystals in such a way that different parts of the same tiny block acquire different electrical properties. These "domains" and the "interfaces" between them act like the components of complicated electronic circuits...