Electronic Business articles from January 2001

Electronic Business archives from January 2001

Top 10 reasons for a Happy New Year.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Wall Street has become a dark alley, a mean street where investors are getting mugged and corporate valuations have taken a beating. Top electronics companies, with superb growth--Credence Systems Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Xilinx Inc.--have...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... 1ST SILICON AND INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY The former employees of InterConnect Technology found the article about Malaysia's 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. ["Jungle Fab," November 2000, page 62] quite aggravating and feel the need to set...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... In our November 2000 Business Trends article, "Net Losses? No way," page 40, the data referenced in the article that corresponds with the graph was incorrectly labeled in billions; it should have read millions. EB regrets the error.

The expanding microprocessor market.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... It's been almost 30 years since the first commercially available microprocessor--Intel Corp.'s 4004--and there were even earlier examples used in proprietary applications. The market has grown tremendously since then, and now we're in the...

New digital technologies clash with copyright law.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Delivering digital music for free has created a war that rivals the biblical story of David vs. Goliath. This time, however, David is not winning. Napster indexes music stored on the computers of its more than 20 million users. Napster...

Economic growth cooled in Q3 2000.
January 1, 2001... Growth in inflation-adjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) slowed to an annual rate of 2.4% during the third quarter of 2000, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Commerce Department. GDP gains during the previous four quarters had...

Big deals.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Start-ups are gorging themselves at the rich venture capital trough Just five years ago, in 1995, the most venture capital raised by a company in a single round of financing was roughly $85 million. By the first half of 2000, such a deal...

Rampant VC market slows down.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Stock market dampens investors' mood For some time now, researchers have said that venture capital investments are largely immune to stock market fluctuations because these investments are made for the long haul. They changed their...

A happy New Year.
January 1, 2001... Happy New Year and hello to new budgets is the tune that many businesses are singing. In one of the most optimistic Januarys on record, an amazing 36% of purchasing managers believe that overall business conditions will improve. With all...

The power of balance.(Government Activity)
January 1, 2001... Bipartisan character of election 2000 could be boon to high technology While the presidential contest became a surreal version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"--many kept waiting for a newspaper to run with the banner headline: "Is That...

Eye in the sky.(Product Information)
January 1, 2001... IBM supercomputer seeks UFOs If the truth is out there, IBM Corp. hardware will help find it. It's not an episode of "The X-Files" or any other science-fiction yarn, but the U.S. Air Force has--in its own words--selected an IBM...

FPGA makers eye the ASIC market.(Xilinx and Altera)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... But are embedded microprocessors really a threat to ASICs? How do you top a year of 70% sales growth? Well, you could launch a market expansion plan aimed at keeping that momentum going. That's precisely what programmable logic device...

The digital domicile.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Cheaper semiconductors are driving a boom in home networking Increasing demand for the kind of connectivity found mostly in the office is driving a chip market, you might say, that's really close to home. Market analysts are projecting...

Growing fast, going strong.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Internet firms top the fastest growing tech company list Although the sun may be setting on the reign of B2C Web sites, Internet companies have had five years of astounding growth. The top of the 2000 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500...

The fab-rehab fad.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Closed fabs are big deals for bargain hunters In the semiconductor world, one person's trash is literally another's treasure. Semiconductor manufacturing fabs that have been shuttered but kept clean, sometimes for years, are being snapped...

No flip, no flop.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2001... Real products, real markets and a real chance for Silicon Image The Nasdaq is anemic and dot-corns are dying like tulips in June. At a time when last year's quick flips are becoming this year's quick flops, it's reassuring to know there are...

Power hungry.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Limited electrical capacity could short circuit high-tech businesses Power is one of those things you take for granted. Short of the occasional outage, when you need it, it's usually there. However a growing demand for power--and the...

No chads, no rips, no errors.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Internet shareholder voting gains, but electronic proxy delivery lags The 2001 proxy season will be the third in which Quantum Corp., Milpitas, CA, uses the Internet to deliver electronic versions of its annual report and proxy statement....

CHIP HEISTS.
January 1, 2001... AN EB EXCLUSIVE: CHIP THEFT HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WAREHOUSE AND ONTO THE ROAD IT'S A BEAUTIFUL TUESDAY EVENING, just minutes before 6 p.m., and the bad guys in the new baby blue van and American sedan trail the electronics-laden big rig to...

SEPARATING SUITORS.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Big tech mergers are drawing more government scrutiny. Can old antitrust laws be fairly applied to the New Economy? Mention high technology and antitrust today, and most CEOs might think of the Microsoft Corp. case, or perhaps the America...

IP WAKE-UP CALL.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... IT'S HIGH TIME TO GET THE LOW DOWN ON BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS Like most electronics companies, National Instruments Corp., Austin, TX, applies for patents to protect its intellectual property (IP). Over the years, it has amassed more than...

COUNTING ON CMOS.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2001... WHEN SABRINA KEMENY was a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s, she and her colleagues found the electronics industry very reluctant to adopt a new image-sensing...

THE ASP DILEMMA.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Many electronics industry players are jumping on the applications service provider bandwagon, but it's definitely not for everyone TWO YEARS AGO, long before "ASP" (application service provider) became the acronym du jour, executives at...

The marriage of autos and electronics.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2001... Even for someone who has spent a lifetime traipsing through trade shows, last fall's Convergence 2000 in Dearborn, MI, portended something more than hype and routine product announcements. There was a palpable sense that two...