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...Bush Administration's submission to Congress for approval. A former air force pilot and prisoner of war in Hanoi, Peterson is expected to leave July 15. RETIRED. GORDON MOORE, 72, Intel Corp. founder and articulator of "Moore's Law," a prediction that the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double every year; in Santa Clara, California. He will continue serving as chairman and director emeritus but will have no voting power. EXTRADITION UPHELD.Of FRANZ MEIJER 46, to the Netherlands for the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken; in Paraguay. Meijer and four others abducted Heineken...
Send the architects south. Silicon Valley may be powerless and profitless, but Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...
...TIME.com Q&A, TIME Silicon Valley correspondent Chris Taylor takes a look at the latest phase in the battle for virtual tunes...
...Taiwan's two greatest assets?silicon chips and human brainpower?are fleeing to China. The island produces 10% of the world's integrated circuits, more than 60% of its motherboards and most of its notebook computers. All of those businesses are finding futures on the mainland, thanks to lower wages and a ready supply of bargain-priced engineering talent. At the same time, Taiwan's own workforce, among the world's most inventive and productive, is opting for China, not just as a place to invest in but a good place to live. Roughly 300,000 people, mostly managers, have...
...Their Shanghai factory, Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., is wholly foreign-owned, with Wong as CEO and Jiang serving on the board of directors. It broke ground in November and should start producing eight-inch (20 cm) silicon wafers, used to make computer chips, starting late next year. It is Taiwan's biggest high-tech project in China. Just 50 m away, however, a nearly identical plant is under construction, this one owned by one of Taiwan's best-known chipmakers, Richard Chang's Semiconductor Manufacturing International. Combined, the dozen production lines in the two factories should be able to produce...