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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fred Levine who wrote (14977)	5/15/2005 12:53:37 PM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Fred, In reality the US needs to foster more US engineering students. Many of the Chinese,Indian, and foreign engineers that worked in fabs and high tech industry in the 80's and 90's have been mentored in US technology and business practices and have returned back to their home countries to compete against US companies in high level engineering and management postitions. Nothing wrong with that but the "brain trust" that they represented left with them. Many did remain, but the job situation is extremely competitive and career longevity is no longer a concern for most US companies with short sighted q-q profit motivations. The US MUST provide the incentive for American students to become engineers...unfortunately, it seems that being a lawyer has become vogue and we are now up to our necks in frivolous litigation rather than focusing on our future engineering and societal needs. In the 70's, 80's, and early 90's AMAT's management was 95% PHd's and engineers who were passionate about their products and directly represented the company to the customer...I'm not sure that is the case any more. In the mid 90's the emphasis shifted toward marketing and business oriented managers rather than technology related management. AMAT's reputation was that of an technology engineering company. That may still the case in the various divisions but I think that upper management has become more of a pure business oriented operation and possibly a bit disconnected from the engineering side of the business. JMHO.