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- 01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Made in China REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of consumer electronics and computers migrated to Asia. Electrophoretic display MADE IN TAIWAN REASON Its manufacture requires expertise developed from producing flat-panel LCDs, which migrated to Asia... View Details
- 18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor factory north of Albany, New... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
uses. A slowdown in semiconductor demand post-2001 made it possible for the solar industry to take off by using excess polysilicon and silicon wafers. How to Win. In a downturn, getting to the breakeven point for a new venture and then to... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Moore described the rise of the semiconductor industry and the uniquely fertile environment for startup companies in Silicon Valley, Arati Prabhakar of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discussed the future of the Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
no surprise, therefore, that semiconductor-equipment suppliers are moving more of their R&D to Asia to be closer to the hubs of semiconductor production. Retaining R&D. In many contexts, R&D and production are tightly integrated, and they... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
semiconductors and disk drives in the 1990s. But for a city-state without natural resources, the new millennium belongs to a knowledge-based economy, and the Biopolis, which opened in 2003, is at the center of that. "In late 1989, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
in computers and consumer electronics, Shih says, “We tried to highlight some of the unusual, fresh thinking — such as IBM’s radical collaboration model in semiconductor R&D — that business leaders are using to approach the challenges... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
their work. And I know that's not where you started. I believe, you started as a chip designer, which, of course, is a solitary pursuit. How did you get from there to here? Tai: Wow, I wish I really knew. I did, I started as a-- I had a background in chemistry and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
situation to the early days of the semiconductor industry, when companies competed to see how classical computers could be used and what hardware might best support them. That kind of uncertainty poses a challenge for investors and tech... View Details