Hi Mr. Caruthers. I guess you certainly could be right. Although I'm not sure I'm in this for the "appreciation" any more. There seems to be more at stake:
According to the press release, Stork began his industrial career in 1982 doing SiGe bipolar research and development at the TJ Watson research center of IBM. Just as the curtain was closing on the golden age of real industry-funded research, Stork moved into an R/D role in the considerably more product-focused Hewlett Packard Internet Systems and Storage Lab. From there, Stork moved to Texas Instruments, one of the last big IDMs, where he was CTO and senior vice president of Silicon Technology Development. And now he is in a similar role in an equipment company.
This evolution from research institution to systems house to semiconductor IDM to equipment company exactly traces the path of the center of effort of semiconductor research as it has migrated through the US economy. Sadly, each step in this migration has been driven not by the need to place research efforts where they can be the most effective, but by the demands for short-term operating results, making successive layers of US industry increasingly intolerant of long-term investment.
With regret, one has to assume that the end of this trajectory will place fundamental research and development outside the US altogether, in the hands of government-subsidized consortia such as IMEC and government-favored foundries such as TSMC, who are in a position to make the investment. That will mark the successful conversion of the US semiconductor industry from integrated to fab-lite, and on to intellectual-property-lite. Whether that is a sustainable position for an entire sector of the economy remains to be demonstrated.
edn.com
semiconductor.net
This "New World Order" appears to mark the beginning of the end... of life as we used to know it... and GWB sounds a lot like a man who has been fully bunkerized and immunized against the truth.
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