Electronic Business articles from August 2001

Electronic Business archives from August 2001

Now's the time to train future execs.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
August 1, 2001... "If you can keep your head when all about you others are losing theirs and blaming it on you,"...yours may soon be a CEO's chair in Silicon Valley (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling). Uneasy should lie the heads that wear the crowns at a...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2001... MORPHING MONOPOLY I just read your editorial ["Monopolistic power," page 6, June 2001] with interest, since I have wondered about the shifting and splitting and re-consolidation of the various former Bell companies. Personally, I think...

Broadband without broadband.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Billions of dollars will be invested this year developing broadband technology to deliver video, voice, and the Internet to homes and businesses. Hundreds of companies are working in areas such as DSL, cable modems, wireless and optical...

eLearning: a new way to develop employees.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... The most successful electronics companies recognize that improved-performance programs play a persuasive role in attracting, motivating, promoting and retaining a highly qualified workforce. The trend toward providing more effective training...

ANALYSIS: History backs forecast of chip bounce.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Since sales hit a record $204.4 billion in 2000, the worldwide semiconductor market has turned on a dime, forcing the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in late June to dramatically lower its forecast for worldwide sales. Still, the...

An out for the insider.(Government Activity)
August 1, 2001... New rule helps corporate execs steer clear of insider trading While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Fair Disclosure Regulation has dominated the headlines, an obscure rule passed along with Reg. FD has given corporate...

Six months can be a lifetime.(Government Activity)
August 1, 2001... New SEC rule speeds access to alternative capital The originators of the idea that things can change in a "New York minute" had to be thinking about the stock market. After two years of rampant IPO activity, the environment for public...

A little slow on the uptick.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... If the electronics industry is going to show any signs of recovery, it won't be until the fourth quarter. That's the sentiment of this month's survey of purchasing managers. Capacity utilization is expected to decrease by 40% in the next 30...

Business TRENDS.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Neither gone nor forgotten Inventory strategies do little to eliminate excess In the first half of the year, component inventory was passed around the supply chain like a hot potato: Nobody wanted to hold onto it for fear of getting...

Servers reach for InfiniBand.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Market predicted to grow to 250 million units in four years If all goes well, the industry should start seeing InfiniBand-based server products in the second half of 2002. That's the assessment of analysts and executives in the nascent...

Dueling discs.(DataPlay vs Iomega)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... DataPlay mounts threat to Iomega in handheld market Roy, UT-based Iomega Corp. hoped it had developed a successor to the venerable floppy disk drive in 1999 when it introduced the Clik! line of disk drives. Intended for use in portable and...

The film-less photomat.(photofinishing industry)(International Data Corp report)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Photography is a key driver of digital device sales The days of picking up holiday pictures from the local film developer and discovering your thumb was inconveniently placed on the lens are over. Digital devices, including cameras and...

Left behind.(personnel management)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... How you treat laid-off employees affects those who remain The CEO scrambled onto the dais to address his workers: "Today is the first day of a very bright future," he intoned. But nobody applauded, relates Cambria, CA-based human resources...

MORE THAN A MEMORY MAKER.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... DRAM giant Samsung Electronics gains ground in cell phones and LCDs--and plans a new generation of 'converged' consumer products EVEN AS A GLUT OF 40 MILLION PHONES puts much of the cellular telephone equipment industry on hold, the main...

CATCH A RISING STAR.(honing employees towards leadership)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... How top companies spot and polish leaders from within MEET DEIRDRE HANFORD, litmus test for how well your organization identifies and manages its rising stars. Recently named senior vice president of Synopsys Inc., Hanford appears to be a...

CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE.(middleware for the smart home)(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... Software developers say the way to the networked home is through middleware to service the languishing interactive digital TV market THE REPORTERS FLOCKED to Egil Juliussen's smart home in Dallas. "We appeared on every TV network in the...

The RACE Goes to the SWIFT.(site relocations)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Public-private initiatives cater to Internet-speed of businesses seeking new locations FOR A FEW WEEKS last spring, site selection actually was sexy. The relocation of the corporate headquarters of The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA, offered...

To BUILD or NOT To BUILD...?
August 1, 2001... As the chip industry weathers its latest downturn, how is this affecting the build or buy decision for chip making? REAL MEN HAVE FABS. That comment from another era still rings true for some of the biggest semiconductor manufacturers....

I/O's price, performance gap must be closed.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... Bandwidth is the overwhelming buzzword today in the communications industry, driven in large part by the growing proliferation of rich digital content. Users are accessing and manipulating music and video files in unprecedented numbers, and...

Editor's Note.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
August 1, 2001... The Darwinian Electronics Industry "We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence..." (from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1859, Chapter III, Charles Robert Darwin.) And what a struggle...

EB 300 SURVIVAL of the FITTEST.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... In lean times, only the strong survive BUILT INTO THE MESSAGE in the elaborate PowerPoint presentations that consultants from McKinsey & Co., Palo Alto, CA, showed their clients last spring was a succinct but inescapable warning: Don't...

EB 300 SURVIVAL of the FITTEST.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... EB 300 SURVIVAL of the FITTEST The RANKINGS CALENDAR YEAR 2000 Electronics Rank revenue 2000...

TOP 10 NORTH AMERICAN COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... TOP 10 NORTH AMERICAN COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE in millions of $ 1 IBM $88,396.0 2 Hewlett-Packard 49,057.0 3 Compaq Computer 42,383.0 4 Motorola ...

TOP 10 ASIAN COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... TOP 10 ASIAN COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE in millions of $ 1 Samsung Electronics $27,145.9 2 LG Electronics 11,746.4 3 Flextronics...

TOP 10 JAPANESE COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... TOP 10 JAPANESE COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE in millions of $ 1 Matsushita Electric $71,658.0 Industrial 2 Fujitsu 49,807.9 3 NEC 48,460.7 4 Toshiba...

TOP 10 EUROPEAN COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... TOP 10 EUROPEAN COMPANIES ELECTRONICS REVENUE in millions of $ 1 Siemens $35,148.1 2 Alcatel 29,580.0 3 Ericsson 29,026.0 4 Nokia ...

REVENUE PER EMPLOYEE.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... REVENUE PER EMPLOYEE (in thousands) Top 10 1 Merisel $3,672.8 2 Kaga Electronics 3,648.0 3 Mitac 2,737.6 4 Shinko Shoji 2,530.7 5 Ryoyo Electro 2,353.1 6 Nintendo ...

FIVE-YEAR ANNUAL REVENUE GROWTH.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... FIVE-YEAR ANNUAL REVENUE GROWTH Top 10 1 Siebel Systems 195.3% 2 Broadcom 182.4% 3 Veritas Software 118.8% 4 i2 Technologies 112.7% 5 JDS Uniphase 102.2% 6...

RETURN ON ASSETS.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... RETURN ON ASSETS Top 10 1 Oracle 48.2% 2 Xilinx 27.8% 3 Adobe Systems 26.9% 4 National Semiconductor 26.1% 5 Philips Electronics 24.9% 6 Altera ...

DEBT TO EQUITY.
August 1, 2001... DEBT TO EQUITY 1 Seiko 2,952.6% 2 Amphenol 2,494.2% 3 Alpine 2,235.9% 4 Ford Motor Company 889.6% 5 Viasystems Group 753.7% 6 Bull 657.2% 7 Xerox ...

R&D SPENDING.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... R&D SPENDING as a % of revenues 1 Broadcom 22.9% 2 L-3 Communications 21.0% 3 Cadence Design System 20.6% 4 Novell 20.2% 5 Conexant Systems 19.7% 6 i2 Technologies 19.3% 7...

NET INCOME (Calendar Year) as a % of revenues.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... NET INCOME (Calendar Year) as a % of revenues Top 10 1 Oracle 63.3% 2 UMC 43.9% 3 Xilinx 43.2% 4 Microsoft 40.4% 5 TSMC ...

NET INCOME PER EMPLOYEE (in thousands).(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... NET INCOME PER EMPLOYEE (in thousands) Top 10 1 Xilinx 336.5 2 Altera 255.2 3 Microsoft 240.9 4 Nintendo 189.3 5 Asustek 186.8 6 UMC ...

RETURN ON EQUITY.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... RETURN ON EQUITY Top 10 1 Amphenol 369.5% 2 Premier Farnell 111.3% 3 Oracle 97.5% 4 Pitney Bowes 48.4% 5 Philips Electronics 44.2% 6 Eastman Kodak 41.0% 7 Altera ...

SEMICONDUCTORS 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... SEMICONDUCTORS 2000 Segment revenue in millions of $ 1 Intel $30,400.0 2 Toshiba 11,388.0 3 NEC 10,900.0 4 Samsung Electronics 10,592.0 5 Texas Instruments 9,200.0...

COMPUTER HARDWARE 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... COMPUTER HARDWARE 2000 Segment revenue in millions of $ 1 Compaq Computer $35,177.9 2 IBM 30,938.6 3 Dell Computer 29,337.0 4 Hewlett-Packard 20,603.9 5 NEC 19,384.3 6 Fujitsu ...

COMPUTER SOFTWARE & SERVICES 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... COMPUTER SOFTWARE & SERVICES 2000 Segment revenue in millions of $ 1 IBM $45,965.9 2 Microsoft 20,983.6 3 Electronic Data Systems 19,226.8 4 Oracle 10,745.1 5 Computer...

PERIPHERALS 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... PERIPHERALS 2000 Segment revenue in millions of $ 1 Hewlett-Packard $20,113.4 2 Canon 9,223.3 3 EMC 8,872.8 4 IBM 7,071.7 5 Quantum ...

CONTRACT MANUFACTURING 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... CONTRACT MANUFACTURING 2000 Segment revenue in millions of $ 1 Solectron $17,057.4 2 Flextronics 10,368.8 International 3 Celestica 9,752.1 4 SCI Systems 9,146.6 5 Sanmina 4,218.2 6...

DISTRIBUTION 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... DISTRIBUTION 2000 Segment revenue in millions of $ 1 Ingram Micro $30,715.1 2 Tech Data 20,427.7 3 Arrow 12,959.3 4 Avnet 11,763.7 5 Pioneer-Standard 2,843.8 6 Merisel ...