A company whose technology we like a lot has seen fit to give itself a name — II-VI (IIVI) — that only inveterate techies can appreciate. Accordingly, we begin this month with a brief review of high school chemistry – there’s simply no other way to make sense of where II-VI came from or what…
The very notion of an electrically powered battlefield seems preposterous, at first blush. How can the power behind the toaster and the hair dryer propel an artillery shell, a fighter plane, or a rocket? Where will they plug in the tanks? The short answer: In the same place they plug in submarines and the rest…
Picture a vast parking lot filled with 10,000 Pontiacs — not little cars, but real wheels that your average American would be proud to drive. At exactly the same moment every single driver turns the ignition key, shifts into neutral, floors the accelerator, and 10,000 Pontiac engines go screaming up to the red line on…
Who would buy technology stocks in times like these? Read no further if you believe that America’s economic future resides in Treasuries, CDs, bonds, or gold under mattress. We don’t. Technology will remain the engine of economic growth, and the right technology companies will prosper again in the coming decade, just as they did in…
