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To: Gottfried who wrote (31068)	6/17/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

Hiring stays strong at semiconductor suppliers By Adam Marcus EE Times (06/16/99, 5:38 p.m. EDT) With a recent report from the Semiconductor Industry Association forecasting better than 12 percent growth in the world's chip market this year, "downturn" represents a pair of four-letter words no longer heard in the semiconductor business. But what will be the fallout for the jobs picture? Some observers say semiconductor engineers are already seeing the benefits of the rosy forecast. "We have seen a real comeback in what the hiring patterns are in the last six to eight months," said Bart Kramer of Lewis Associates Technical Recruiters (Littleton, Colo.). "It sure seems like all of a sudden there's a big boom for process people." A good source of job postings for the semiconductor industry on the Internet is Jumpingchips.com. The Web site boasts 2,000 job listings from 200 companies and is easy enough to wade through. Here, then, are a few selections: NetChip Technology Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has more than half a dozen openings, including ASIC designers, senior ASIC designers, and applications and field engineers. Senior-level candidates should have at least three years' experience in high-speed digital logic design. NetChip is also seeking a manager of design engineering, a post that requires at least 10 years' experience in ASIC design, as well as three to five years of management experience. Also based in Mountain View, Silicon Graphics Inc. has a slew of chip-design openings at various sites. SGI needs a circuit designer and a senior-level circuit-design engineer for its supercomputing group in Chippewa Falls, Wis. The company is also looking for a VLSI circuit-design engineer and an ASIC designer at its California headquarters. iTV Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.) has close to 20 positions open. The company, which claims to "provide the chips and salsa to build attachments to the Internet," needs communications-IC designers, product designers and senior ASIC designers with three years of experience with VHDL and Verilog. In addition, iTV is looking for a director for its hardware-engineering operations. The job requires at least three years of management experience, as well as the appropriate engineering background. Intrinsix Corp. (Westboro, Mass.) also has positions available. The company — which announced a merger with Seva Technologies last week — has an opening for a principal design engineer with eight years of experience. It also seeks a senior design engineer with at least five years of experience. There are jobs, too, in the nation's bigger chip houses. Texas Instruments Inc., for example, has a wealth of openings in the Greater Dallas area and elsewhere. Two posts include an RF design engineer with a background in bipolar, CMOS and BiCMOS engineering, Cadence tools and device physics; and an analog design engineer with savvy in mixed-signal IC design. Micron Technology Inc. has more than 30 slots for engineers, chiefly in its Boise, Idaho, facilities. Semiconductor equipment makers hit hard by last year's slump are coming in out of the cold. Teradyne Inc. (Boston), a maker of automatic test equipment, has close to 200 technical openings, many for EEs. Titles include software, hardware and applications engineering. Requirements for one hardware-engineering position are a BSEE or MSEE with at least two years of experience in HDL coding. The ideal candidate will also have a background in the IBM ASIC design process and tools. Teradyne is also looking to hire a number of people to work in its operations abroad. The company has slots to fill for field applications engineers in Manila, Beijing and Grenoble, France, among other foreign destinations. eetimes.com

To: Gottfried who wrote (31068)	6/17/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Tito L. Nisperos Jr.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Gottfried and All, I'm sorry for the Employees of the destined to die Cyrix of NSM. We can not avoid casualties in the Chip Wars... If only the cash rich AMAT does not have a policy of competing with its customers, then the facilities of Cyrix could be used in a Foundry business for AMAT. I feel lucky that I'm invested in a Company that do not Kill its competitors in order to survive. Two years ago we discussed and concluded in this Thread that there will be vicious price wars as the Pc becomes affordable and multiple PCs in households will be the norm. Did we not foresee that AMAT & Company, who supplies all the Weapons to all the Combatants will benefit from all these Wars? Only the ones that have a Worms Eye-view of things do not think so. As we are witnessing now, the Computer Chip is becoming just a small part in the huge market for Chips; But they will be around for a long while yet. Even the basic calculator (with Chip inside) is still being built like the one AARP sent me as a gift just to read its Car Insurance Quotations. Instead of paying Newspaper and TV ADs, Vendors could just giveaway computers!... One who spends $3,000 on computers every two years could now get a $500 computer and then spend the extra $2,500 on different Electronic Gadgets that have Chips Inside. The number of uses of Chips are limited only by our imagination: --- how about a multiple-powered Car that have Chips to control and charge batteries using Wind, Solar, Dynamo as well as Gasoline?... or how about Sony (who has a Digital Hi 8 Camcorder that can see in total darkness) manufacturing a pair of glasses (with Chips Inside) that can be used by people at night --- reducing power consumption by turning off some lights!