Word: siliconing
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International investors can be forgiven for never having heard of Motech, E-Ton or Sino-American Silicon. Compared with better-known Taiwan-based chip giants such as Taiwan Semiconductor and United Microelectronics, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, these three Taiwanese semiconductor plays have flown under most people's radar...
...Until now. Continuing high oil prices and growing concern over sustainable energy have made them the hottest stocks in the tech-heavy Taiwan Stock Exchange. Motech and E-Ton Solar make photovoltaic (PV) semiconductors, better known as solar cells. Sino-American is in the business of supplying them with silicon wafers, which are the basic PV building blocks. And shares of all three have delivered stellar gains thanks to the world's growing appetite for solar power as a hedge against the high price of crude...
...team of four engineers enters the meeting room, each clutching an IBM Think Pad. They have just 20 minutes: a digital clock projected on the wall ticks it down. You don't go before Brin and Page--joined by CEO Eric Schmidt, 51, the Silicon Valley veteran brought in a few years ago to provide adult supervision--until you have your pitch down. And the way Google operates, you don't have your pitch down until you have the numbers to quantify its superiority. The engineers tell Brin and Page that they can generate extra advertising revenue by adding small...
...gauge Google's ability to weather the storms, TIME spent several days at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. It's a unique experience. Set up in 1998 in a Silicon Valley garage (O.K., that part's familiar), Google inflated with the Internet bubble and then, after everything around it collapsed, kept on inflating. Google's search engine--devised by Brin and Page when they were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford--was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother. Search became Google; google became a verb...
Unlike many competitors in Silicon Valley, Google tends to let engineers run the show. The company is almost allergic to marketing. (Name another $100 billion company that doesn't run TV ads.) Innovation tends to bubble up from those bright young minds. The challenge is keeping them all happy. The free food and laundry and the heavily subsidized massages and haircuts all help, but there also has to be enough creative work to go around. Google came up with a formula to help ensure this. Every employee is meant to divide his or her time in three parts: 70% devoted...