Word: siliconing
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Arcane as it may seem, the eBay case deals with the balance of power between patent holders and users, and corporate America is keenly interested in the verdict. Silicon Valley types from Yahoo! to Intel have lined up behind eBay, while more traditional companies such as General Electric (inventor Thomas Edison's outfit) and Procter & Gamble support MercExchange, along with the entire drug industry, whose business model hinges on patent protection...
...down and from side to side." The basin effect amplifies not only the intensity of the shaking but also its duration, which is no doubt why buildings collapsed in Santa Rosa in 1906, killing some 100 people. There are similar sedimentary basins throughout the Bay Area--around the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, for example, and the expanding subdivisions that surround the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
...already established by Motech, which rose 130% on Taiwan's small-cap bourse last year, outstripping other pure-play solar manufacturers such as Germany's SolarWorld (up 61% last year). Sino-American was another spectacular winner: its share price trebled last year on the back of a shortage in silicon wafers...
...could pose a danger to investors. Even though solar power manufacturers are relatively few in number, additional factory output coming online this year in Taiwan alone will outstrip the growth in demand anticipated from California's initiative. In addition, new players entering the market and competing for already scarce silicon wafers will likely drive up production costs, writes CLSA analyst Timothy Chen, who recommends investors sell Motech because it's overpriced...
...difficult at this stage to pick winners and losers, those who still like the industry's long-term outlook may want to buy the stocks of several to spread their risk. Solar-cell stocks are having their day in the sun right now. But in the highly cyclical silicon-chip industry?even this promising new corner of it?night surely follows...