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…
The transmitters that convey most of our wireless traffic aren’t built by Motorola (MOT), Ericsson (ERICY), Nokia (NOK), or Alcatel (ALA); they’re built by Harris Corporation (HRS). Name one major vendor of RF equipment whose company price is essentially the same today as it was at the height of the bubble: Harris again.
The most familiar things in electrical life run directly from the grid: lamps, stoves, and the simplest electric motors. But every device that includes digital logic, every advanced electric motor, laser, and solid-state light bulb, requires an intervening “power supply” that converts 110V 60Hz grid power into some different form at the doorstep of the…
Why did it take so long? How did they finally build it? And why have so few people noticed? Last year, Motorola managed to build a gallium arsenide device on a silicon substrate. A new era in the manufacturing of quantum devices will begin in the second half of this year when Motorola and other…
Colonel Edwin Drake was prepared to go quite a bit deeper when he turned on his steam engine in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1859, but his drill struck oil at 69 feet.
