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Boom, decline, maintenance.

December 17, 2008

The semiconductor industry is seeing a decline in demand for many products–this is especially prevalent in DRAM.  Currently there are talks with DRAM manufacturers about bailouts from the Taiwanese and South Korean government.  A colleague at EE Times, Mark LaPedus, writes about this being a bad idea as any bailout will temporarily save jobs but [...]

Silicon Valley and Election ‘08

September 24, 2008

Rick Merritt from EETimes has some numbers on how the Silicon Valley technology companies are funding the candidates.  Looks like Obama has the edge in most categories but not all.
Article here:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/210603035

CUTTING TAXES! NO NEW TAXES!

September 18, 2008

You know, that in every election almost every party talks about cutting taxes someway or another.  If this were really true, we would be down to a zero tax rate 30 years ago!
Why can’t candidates ever just say “we’re going to try and make things a bit more efficient, and change the direction of some [...]