http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/EngineeringFind stories, videos, and photos about Engineering from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:39:40 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/BUSINESS/07/06/gg.dong.energy.wind/tztop.dong.energy.jpghttp://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Engineering14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Engineering from CNN.com.http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/07/06/gg.dong.energy.wind/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/07/06/gg.dong.energy.wind/index.html#cnnSTCTextThere are many reasons as to why coal today is the dominant fuel in power generation. In coal many countries found a way to alleviate the extreme dependence of Middle East oil after the 1970's oil crisis.Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:51:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06/22/synthetic.tree.climate.change.ccs/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06/22/synthetic.tree.climate.change.ccs/index.html#cnnSTCTextScientists in the United States are developing a "synthetic tree" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:59:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/13/eod.faster.laptops/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/13/eod.faster.laptops/index.html#cnnSTCTextSince the invention of the transistor, silicon semiconductors have been king. But now silicon-based transistors are nearing the limit of their potential. Excess heat and manufacturing hurdles are impeding the development of ever-faster and smaller processors.Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:28:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/24/NRG.Crane/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/24/NRG.Crane/index.html#cnnSTCTextDavid Crane is a man who isn't afraid of a challenge. When he took the helm at NRG Energy in the winter of 2003, the company was mired in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings -- just one of many companies caught in the meltdown of the U.S. power generation industry, instigated by the scandalous collapse of Texan power giant Enron in 2001.Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:39:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/09/CCS.oxyfuel/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/09/CCS.oxyfuel/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwenty four hours before the greatest scientific experiment of our time gets underway at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, political and scientific dignitaries assembled at a site a few hundred miles north east of the French/Swiss border at a site in Germany to inaugurate another groundbreaking engineering test.Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:45:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/09/17/technology/Hottest_tech_job_woody.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/09/17/technology/Hottest_tech_job_woody.fortune/index.htmIt looks like a scene from an old episode of The X-Files: As a red-tailed hawk circles overhead and a wild pronghorn sheep grazes in the distance, a dozen people in dark sunglasses move methodically through a vast field of golden barley, eyes fixed to the ground, GPS devices in hand. They're searching for bodies.Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:12:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834089,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834089,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsIntel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it slipped into a severe financial slumpTue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/02/14/news/companies/water_power/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/02/14/news/companies/water_power/index.htmWhisky is for drinkin', water is for fightin'.Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:18:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/10/fsummit.climate.solarpower/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/10/fsummit.climate.solarpower/index.html#cnnSTCTextWidespread anxiety about the damaging effects of burning fossil fuels, coupled with a genuine fear that oil and gas will become scarce before the century ends are fueling a renewed interest in renewable energy and, in particular, solar power solutions.Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:07:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141305/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141305/index.htm"We were at heightened security - we were at red," recalls Al Griffith, spokesman for the utility that owns the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire.Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:40:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050990/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050990/index.htmClouds hang low over the New Mexico desert, deep inside a military reservation a dozen miles south of Albuquerque. A breeze stirs the air; tumbleweeds roll by. Then the sun shines through and a low... Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:50:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/03/news/economy/clean_coal/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/03/news/economy/clean_coal/index.htmWith global warming on everyone's mind, combined with a slew of electronic gadgets consuming more and more electricity, there's a greater need than ever for clean coal technology in the United States.Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:50:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401037/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401037/index.htmApple's unveiling of the iPhone at this year's Macworld trade show quietly signaled the end of Moore's Law as we know it. At the same time, it ushered in a new era of technical innovation, driven b... Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:47:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/02/27/news/economy/smart_meters/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/02/27/news/economy/smart_meters/index.htmMost people don't spend an hour gabbing on their cell phone in the middle of the day. It's just too expensive.Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:47:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/02/05/technology.smallestchip/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/02/05/technology.smallestchip/index.htmlThe digital world has just gone molecular.Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:31:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/02/01/8398988/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/02/01/8398988/index.htmThe planet's most pressing environmental problems—global warming, energy shortages, overfishing, pollution—may seem just too big to be solved with today's technology. But don't despair: A lot of br... Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:01:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/13/solar.storm/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/13/solar.storm/index.htmlSpace weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights.Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:41:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/10/01/8387111/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/10/01/8387111/index.htmHands on" doesn't adequately describe Steve Sanghi's impulse for tinkering - whether it means donning a bunny suit at his company's chip-manufacturing plant to help troubleshoot defects, mixing it ... Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:58:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384349/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384349/index.htmAsking venture capitalists for great startup ideas is a little like asking Curt Schilling what pitch he's going to throw next. When we posed the question to dozens of VCs and investors around the c... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:01:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/19/your.emails/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/19/your.emails/index.htmlCNN.com asked users for their ideas on the best way to fuel America and break the country's dependence on fossil fuels, especially from foreign sources. Here is a sampling of the responses, some of which have been edited:Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:18:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/03/31/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/03/31/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htmAart de Geus is one of the most insightful people I know in the technology industry, so I was happy to sit down for lunch with him this week. De Geus is CEO and co-founder of Synopsys, a company that sits at the intersection of just about every trend there is.Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:34:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363124/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363124/index.htmIn 1991, an instructor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business presented his class with a case study. It went like this: A CEO was scheduled to address a major industry gathering, and he could gi... Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/06/01/8263444/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/06/01/8263444/index.htmTo reach the lab where IBM, Sony, and Toshiba engineers have spent four years and more than $400 million toiling in secret on a computer chip that, if they are right, will usher in a dramatic new e...Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/05/01/8259698/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/05/01/8259698/index.htmOn a raw winter afternoon, the training manager at Cooper Nuclear Station, a power plant run by Entergy Corp. on the bleak plains of eastern Nebraska, sits across a conference table from his boss, ...Sun, 01 May 2005 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/03/07/8253418/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/03/07/8253418/index.htmMARK WADSWORTH JUST chuckles when he thinks of it. Still tooling around on Mars with slowly dying batteries, the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity--which began sending pictures of the Red Planet's...Mon, 07 Mar 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/27/explorers.silicon/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/27/explorers.silicon/index.htmlThe silicon chip is the most significant invention developed during the past 50 years, according to a poll of CNN.com users.Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:00:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/11/01/8189376/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/11/01/8189376/index.htmOutside, it's another warm summer afternoon in Madison, Pa., a forested suburb 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Inside—in a brightly lit Westinghouse control room packed with computer monitors, sc...Mon, 01 Nov 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/09/06/380319/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/09/06/380319/index.htmRick Priory was on top of the world. It was early 2002, and as CEO of Duke Energy he had taken a conservative electric utility and plunged it headlong into the newly deregulated power market. Durin...Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/03/01/363547/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/03/01/363547/index.htmThere was never much question that one of the first companies President Bush and his administration would call on to help with the vital task of rebuilding Iraq would be Bechtel Group. Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360111/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360111/index.htmThe world's leading chipmaker has been obsessed with building faster and faster microprocessors. And it still is. But with CEO Craig Barrett required by company bylaws to retire next year, his des...Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2003/09/01/350791/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2003/09/01/350791/index.htmGordon Moore is the Lou Gehrig of Silicon Valley. In the same way that the Baseball Hall of Famer, sandwiched between Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, is sometimes overlooked in the Yankee pantheon, Moo...Mon, 01 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/09/01/348406/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/09/01/348406/index.htmWhen the bottom dropped out of the technology market two years ago, Wim Roelandts of Xilinx was one of the few tech CEOs who kept their cool. Even as chip giants Intel and AMD eliminated more than ...Mon, 01 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/07/01/345282/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/07/01/345282/index.htmIf Intel's formula for success as a chipmaker were written down, it would fit nicely on an index card and possess an Einsteinian elegance: C+E+E=W+D, or "copy everything exactly equals world domina...Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/23/344598/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/23/344598/index.htmA new chapter is being written in the history of light manipulation. Lenses that return sight to the blind. Smaller ones, the size of a lentil, that make DVD and CD players possible. High-tech ligh...Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/05/12/342316/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/05/12/342316/index.htmDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the communist regime in North Korea. So it's surprising ...Mon, 12 May 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/11/331816/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/11/11/331816/index.htmThe labyrinthine vastness of Intel's nearly completed D1D semiconductor factory in Hillsboro, Ore., is every bit as breathtaking as the microscopic intricacy of the microprocessors it will soon sta...Mon, 11 Nov 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2002/11/01/331620/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2002/11/01/331620/index.htmHector de Jesus Ruiz, the new chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, is a short, balding fellow who is so quiet and soft-spoken that his sentences often disappear into an inaudible mumble. In f...Fri, 01 Nov 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/08/12/327034/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/08/12/327034/index.htmThe headlong rush of semiconductor miniaturization, it seems, waits for no one. Just because chipmakers are staring at woefully thin order books doesn't mean they can stop following Moore's law, th...Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/04/15/321407/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/04/15/321407/index.htmA few years back, Duke Energy CEO Rick Priory left Charlotte, N.C., and headed north to make one of his periodic pitches to Wall Street. As far as Priory was concerned, he had a pretty exciting sto...Mon, 15 Apr 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/03/04/319129/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/03/04/319129/index.htmOn the western edge of the vast Nevada Test Site, where hundreds of nuclear weapons have been detonated, lies a dusty ridgeline known as Yucca Mountain. Located in a desert region of north-south mo...Mon, 04 Mar 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/15/311537/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/15/311537/index.htmIt is worth remembering, now that mighty Intel has fallen from grace, that between 1985 and the turn of the century, this company pulled off one of the most amazing extended runs of technological, ...Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302950/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302950/index.htmUCLA professor James Heath is trying to build a computer--though you wouldn't know it from the lab where he works. There's hardly a sliver of silicon to be found. No one wears a bunny suit. In one ...Mon, 14 May 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302972/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302972/index.htmAfter you're garbed head to toe in your bunny suit, the unisex uniform of semiconductor manufacturing, your first thought as you pass through the air lock and walk out on the production floor of Fa...Mon, 14 May 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293148/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293148/index.htmThere are executives who set lofty goals for themselves: turn their company into an industry beater, develop a world-changing technology, maybe even have a business dictum named after them. Then th...Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293113/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/12/18/293113/index.htmAbout a year ago Jason Selch, an analyst for Liberty Wanger Asset Management, had a eureka moment. Energy prices were soaring, and Dynegy, a Houston-based wholesaler of electricity and natural gas,...Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292473/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292473/index.htmBell Labs gave birth to the transistor. And the laser. And motion pictures. And long-range TV broadcasts. And real-time language translation. And on and on, so that over time this venerable institu...Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278071/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278071/index.htmImagine a country-club dinner dance, with a bunch of old fogies and their wives shuffling around halfheartedly to the not-so-stirring sounds of Guy Lombardo and his All-Tuxedo Orchestra. Suddenly y...Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278359/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278359/index.htmNever has industry had a greater stake in the process of inventing and producing materials that are the flesh of new technology. Stuff like semiconductors, optical fibers, metallic alloys, and poly...Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/10/271759/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/10/271759/index.htmRead the headlines about U.S. export and import figures or listen to dour comments by TV pundits about the trade gap, and you might conclude that American industry has lost the ability to sell the ...Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/10/259563/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/10/259563/index.htmThree years ago, when communications-chip dynamo Broadcom was a private company, Emery Chang, an employee in the finance department, predicted that when Broadcom went public, its stock would nearly...Mon, 10 May 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/10/259545/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/10/259545/index.htmUnnoticed, like dust mites on a couch, are growing numbers of tiny mechanical gadgets with amazing capabilities. Rugged motion sensors smaller than a fingernail. Micromirrors, 1.2 million of the li...Mon, 10 May 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258760/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258760/index.htmThere are seven of us dragging our luggage through the airport in Rio de Janeiro, preparing to board the first of three planes that will eventually deposit us on a bumpy grass landing strip in the ...Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/03/01/255839/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/03/01/255839/index.htmFor the past decade, the chip business has been relatively easy to understand: There was Intel, and then there was everybody else. But a couple of recent developments are changing that hierarchy. F...Mon, 01 Mar 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248753/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248753/index.htmIn this age of outsourcing, many companies don't actually produce the goods they are known for. Nike doesn't make its sneakers. Snapple doesn't squeeze its juice. Schwinn bikes aren't assembled by ...Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/10/233792/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/10/233792/index.htmThe collaboration between Intel and Hewlett-Packard to develop the Merced, a turbocharged big brother to the ubiquitous Pentium microprocessor, has been anything but stealthy. Everybody in Silicon ...Mon, 10 Nov 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/05/27/212890/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/05/27/212890/index.htmChina is trouble. Its political system is unstable and plagued by corruption, its booming economy is perilously brittle. The people in charge show little respect for human rights or copyrights. It ...Mon, 27 May 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/07/10/204258/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/07/10/204258/index.htmEven though it's a glorious Saturday morning and he's coasting downhill astride his jet-black bicycle, Intel Corp. CEO Andy Grove is hard at work. As usual, he's lagging far behind his more athleti...Mon, 10 Jul 1995 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/03/01/201980/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/03/01/201980/index.htmThere's a good reason this man looks happy: Computer engineer Mark Haas, 35, senior software quality manager for Bell-Northern Research, the development arm of Northern Telecom, has the best career...Wed, 01 Mar 1995 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/08/08/79603/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/08/08/79603/index.htmMADE IN TAIWAN. If that label sparks an image of cheap, shoddy products, think again. In budget personal computers, arguably the hottest segment of the global PC market, Taiwanese suppliers provide...Mon, 08 Aug 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/16/79285/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/16/79285/index.htmWESTERN INVESTORS have poured some $15 billion into Eastern Europe in the five years since the Berlin Wall came down, but not everyone is happy. General Electric had to put an additional $400 milli...Mon, 16 May 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/16/79294/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/16/79294/index.htmWOULD YOU BASE your business strategy on the assumption that AT&T, IBM, Matsushita, Motorola, Philips, Sega, and Sony won't be able to keep up with you? How about gambling nearly a third of your co...Mon, 16 May 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/15/78601/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/15/78601/index.htmDESPITE his widely noted disavowal last summer of the need for a vision for IBM, Lou Gerstner has one. It's clear and specific. The company he sees will know how to seize more opportunities than it...Mon, 15 Nov 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/04/78406/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/04/78406/index.htmJUST about everybody in the global electronics industry agrees that this is the Decade of the Strategic Alliance, and for good reason. As telecommunications, computers, consumer electronics, and me...Mon, 04 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/06/14/77964/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/06/14/77964/index.htmTWENTY YEARS after its invention, the microprocessor -- the computer-on-a- chip, a sliver of silicon not much bigger than your thumbnail, like the one on FORTUNE's cover -- has suddenly brought for...Mon, 14 Jun 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/08/77585/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/08/77585/index.htmTHE BOTTOM LINE of all the hullabaloo over whether cellular phones cause brain cancer: Nobody knows. Why not? Because -- as with electromagnetic radiation from other sources like video display term...Mon, 08 Mar 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/22/77534/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/22/77534/index.htmIntel, a standout stock market performer of late, looked like an also-ran just seven years ago. Since then the company has transformed itself from a money- losing producer of commodity memory chips...Mon, 22 Feb 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77434/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77434/index.htmIN A LEAP of industrial evolution, many companies are shunning vertical integration for a lean, nimble structure centered on what they do best. The idea is to nurture a few core activities -- desig...Mon, 08 Feb 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/30/77191/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/30/77191/index.htmHOW SWEET are the rewards of patience. After losing money on semiconductors for 2 1/2 years -- and suffering an overall $409 million loss in 1991 -- Texas Instruments has rolled up a string of stro...Mon, 30 Nov 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/04/20/76314/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/04/20/76314/index.htmFOR THE FIRST TIME since Japan devastated the U.S. consumer electronics industry in the 1970s, American companies have a chance to stage a comeback in a mighty market that has annual sales of $32 b...Mon, 20 Apr 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/07/75551/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/07/75551/index.htmAMYLIN CORP., a small San Diego biotech firm, was looking for a rat. Not just any rat, but one genetically engineered to carry the human gene that Amylin believes is responsible for a type of diabe...Mon, 07 Oct 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/07/01/75198/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/07/01/75198/index.htmCHANCES ARE, you've heard of Fujitsu Ltd., one of those sprawling Japanese high-tech conglomerates that turn out computers, telecommunications gear, and, of course, semiconductors. But did you know...Mon, 01 Jul 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/06/17/75161/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/06/17/75161/index.htmIMAGINE A PROCESSOR more powerful than a mighty supercomputer of just a few years ago. It's your PC, telephone, fax machine, and VCR all rolled into one. You dictate to it, write on it, or type in ...Mon, 17 Jun 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/06/10/75127/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/06/10/75127/index.htmOH, TO BE a businessman in Japan or Germany. In those juggernauts, it's commonly said, government and industry collaborate over green tea and Rhine wine, with results that may yet reduce America to...Mon, 10 Jun 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/06/74970/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/06/74970/index.htmGUESS WHO'S gaining market share in the chip business? Japan, right? Not so fast, folks. Last year it was U.S. chipmakers that added to market share -- modestly, but in an almost flat year. Of $58....Mon, 06 May 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/24/74099/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/24/74099/index.htmFEW AMERICANS worried when Asian imports took over transistor radios and calculators in the 1970s. The auto invasion that followed was different, for it struck at a symbol of national industrial pr...Mon, 24 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/01/01/72928/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/01/01/72928/index.htmYOU'VE GOT TO WORRY about American technology when the newspapers seem to tell you there's less of it every day. Nikon emerges as the leading candidate to buy the division of Perkin-Elmer that make...Mon, 01 Jan 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/03/72181/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/03/72181/index.htmHERE'S A TEST of your investment acumen. You have a choice of buying stock in one of two companies. Do you believe in return on shareholders' equity? For 1988, Company A had an ROE of 22%; Company ...Mon, 03 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72061/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/06/05/72061/index.htmI NEED FOUR MEN for a patrol to see how we can wipe out that enemy machine gun position. Lally. Uvanni. Dillenbeck. Mackiewicz. No, wait a minute. What I really mean is Texas Instruments, IBM, Moto...Mon, 05 Jun 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/10/71822/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/10/71822/index.htmManagers and investors are starting to realize that Western Europe may well be the fastest-growing market for a host of businesses in the 1990s. Says Federal Express vice president Christos Cotsako...Mon, 10 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71776/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71776/index.htmAS ANDY GROVE likes to say, the price of leadership is eternal paranoia. The chief executive of Intel faces yet another major challenge. Some ten years ago, when IBM was looking for a microprocesso...Mon, 27 Mar 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71780/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71780/index.htmAMERICAN COMPANIES once rode into alien country as fearlessly as the Lone Ranger without Tonto. Nowadays they enlist a partner who knows his way around the local gullies. In their quest for new mar...Mon, 27 Mar 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/30/71568/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/30/71568/index.htmWHAT you're seeing in the photograph at right is a practical embodiment of one of man's most brilliant intellectual achievements. The tiny semiconductor laser in the palm of the scientist's hand is...Mon, 30 Jan 1989 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/10/24/71153/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/10/24/71153/index.htmWHEN color television burst upon the world in the early 1950s, the U.S. was in the vanguard: The first commercial broadcasts used a pioneering system developed by RCA. It was the end of the decade ...Mon, 24 Oct 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/20/70690/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/20/70690/index.htmTHE GOOD TIMES are rolling again for U.S. makers of semiconductors, the tiny electronic circuits-on-a-chip that form the heart of modern computers. Two years ago pessimists were saying, ''Sayonara,...Mon, 20 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/09/70511/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/09/70511/index.htmSimon Ramo -- the Ramo in Bunker-Ramo, a computer venture, and the ''R'' in TRW, the giant defense electronics company -- has advised Presidents and served on the boards of corporations and univers...Mon, 09 May 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/02/01/70146/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/02/01/70146/index.htmWHEN AT&T was broken up on January 1, 1984, admirers of Ma Bell's deep commitment to research wondered about the fate of AT&T Bell Laboratories -- the great American invention factory. Bell Labs ha...Mon, 01 Feb 1988 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/13/68874/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/13/68874/index.htmAFTER YEARS of crying for government help, America's ailing semiconductor industry is getting gobs of it. The Defense Department has unveiled a plan to inject over $2 billion into advanced chipmaki...Mon, 13 Apr 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68078/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68078/index.htmA NEW PRODUCT hyped with the prefix ''super'' is announced every week, but a semiconductor chip now coming on the scene really deserves that neon term. The most densely packed chips in use today co...Mon, 29 Sep 1986 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/01/67989/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/01/67989/index.htmTHE FIRST NUCLEAR power plant in the Philippines sits on a verdant bluff overlooking the South China Sea, just off the road where U.S. soldiers marched to their death under the bayonets of Japanese...Mon, 01 Sep 1986 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67600/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67600/index.htmNUCLEAR POWER was not a wonderful business to be in even before the disaster at Chernobyl. It now figures to become a lot less wonderful for utilities. Several companies that build and service nucl...Mon, 26 May 1986 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/31/67310/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/31/67310/index.htmU.S. semiconductor companies are making a slow but steady recovery from 17 months of severe recession, and their stocks have been moving up. Industry analysts are recommending few buys, however, an...Mon, 31 Mar 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/25/66652/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/25/66652/index.htmA SOVIET NIGHTMARE is coming true. Despite impressive success in closing its technology gap with the West since the atomic age began in 1945, the U.S.S.R. is in danger of falling further behind in ...Mon, 25 Nov 1985 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/07/08/66112/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/07/08/66112/index.htmWITH UNINTENDED irony, Japan's Science and Technology Agency conferred a prestigious award in May on Tomihiro Matsumura. Matsumura, 55, senior vice president for microprocessors at Nippon Electric ...Mon, 08 Jul 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/07/08/66118/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/07/08/66118/index.htmMANY OF THEM didn't know Jerry Junkins. But when the memo went out announcing his promotion, workers at the Dallas headquarters of Texas Instruments privately applauded. To them his elevation to pr...Mon, 08 Jul 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/06/24/66020/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/06/24/66020/index.htmONCE IN A WHILE, a material comes along that's made to order to meet the needs of a new generation of technology. Silicon, an excellent conductor of electrons when properly processed, has powered t...Mon, 24 Jun 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/06/10/65936/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/06/10/65936/index.htmNOW WOULD NOT seem the time to launch a semiconductor company. Industry overcapacity and sluggish computer sales are battering earnings for most major players. Undaunted, Dallas Semiconductor, a ye...Mon, 10 Jun 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/03/04/65657/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/03/04/65657/index.htmA NEW KIND of semiconductor chip is about to work wonders on a vast assortment of products, including many standard household items. The chip is helping produce air conditioners that run without th...Mon, 04 Mar 1985 05:01:00 EST