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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Ralph Atkins and Daniel Schäfer, German Industry Flying High.
Financial Times, Apr 5, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/428a1bc8
-5ee1-11e0-a2d7-00144feab49a.html
(Heinrich Weiss of SMS said, "The biggest threat to our business is the new
competition from China and South Korea. In terms of technology, they are
already coming close to our levels. The only disadvantage that they still
have got is a lack of project management reliability")
Note:
(a) The online version has a graphic that the print edition does not have.
(b) Founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer, Festo is a German
industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar,
Germany. The city is located on the Neckar River, about 14 km southeast of
Stuttgart city center.
en.wikipedia.org
Select "Film" in the top horizontal bar of
SmartBird – bird flight deciphered. Festo, Mar 9, 2011.
http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369.htm
(c) VDMA is acronym of Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (in
German), whose English name is German Engineeing Federation.
(2) Mark LaPedus, Upset TI Slams Samsung’s Foundry Efforts. EETimes, Apr 4,
2011.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news
/4214774/Upset-TI-slams-Samsung-s-foundry-efforts
Quote:
"Samsung was only the world’s 10th largest foundry in terms of sales in
2010, behind the leaders by a wide margin, according to one research house [
IC Insights].
"Like Taiwan rival TSMC, UMC is devising two options for its 28-nm process.
One is a traditional polysilicon gate stack. The other is a high-k/metal-
gate offering. Initially, TI plans to go with a polysilicon gate-stack
technology for the OMAP 5.
My commehnt:
(a) Texas Instruments OMAP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_OMAP
(Open Multimedia Application Platform, a category of proprietary system on
chips (SoCs) for portable and mobile multimedia applications developed by
Texas Instruments)
(b) It turns out that UMC is no pushover. Let's see how the fight between
UMC and Globalfoundries pans out.
(3)
(a) Geeta Anand, India Graduates Millions, but Too Few Are Fit to Hire. Wall
Street Journal, Apr 5, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870
3515504576142092863219826.html#project%3DIBUDGET
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My comment:
(i) Please at least read the first five paragraphs and see the graphics.
(ii) I have no idea how this report squares with Indians in US and UK as
highly educated and monied, successful minorities.
(b) Geeta Anand, Wipro Program Takes on Education Woes. India Real Time, Apr
5, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/04/05
/wipro-program-takes-on-education-woes/
(To improve the teaching, Wipro's "Mission 10X has spent $4 million annually
for the past three years running week-long workshops at engineering
colleges around the country") |
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