February-2004 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
“I CAUTIONED MY WOULD-BE WIFE TO THINK carefully before she agreed to marry me,” recalls Robert Chandran, President and CEO of the $3.8 billion Chemoil Corporation, gazing out at Pier 3 from his Embarcadero Center office in San...
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Feature: Silicon Horizon
Karthik Sundaram
"You are seeing the perfect storm in the wireless,” says the wireless evangelist and managing director of Intel Capital,...
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Venkat Ramana
Landing on the Red Planet has moved from sci-fi books to reality. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers will now attempt to look...
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Taruni Kumar
When multiple transistors were fabricated to execute a logical function in a physical space, the Integrated Circuit (ICs) came...
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Karthik Sundaram
Book-to-build ratio was 1.0 and hovered around 1.1 in the last two quarters of 2003. The first half of 2003 was a continuation...
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Arun Veembur & Robin Mathews
si: Comment on the state of the semiconductor industry today, compared to the last year and the year before?
RC: Andy...
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Dr. Sreenivasan
Microlithography generically refers to processes that are used to create micron or sub-micron structures for fabricating...
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Business
Dr. Wendell Jones
Concerned observers might view offshore outsourcing as a crisis—losing jobs to overseas workers, declining competence of...
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Dee McCrorey
In today’s anemic economy companies are taking a closer look at the projects they’ll fund, particularly those with...
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Career
Sujata Srinivasan
Twenty eight years ago, a young and strapping management graduate from Illinois State University set out to carve himself a...
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Aparna Dave
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 highlighted the need to improve the national security of the United States. In...
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Swati Govil
Today, the cycle seems to have come a full circle as migration from Boston to Bangalore takes the place of the past rush from...
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In My Opinion
Indu Navar Bingham
Starting off on the ground level, I have helped grow family business 20 years ago in India. The concept of venture financing...
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Online Special
Kris Ananthakrishnan
COMMERCE PUNDITS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO claim that ‘if there exists a “perfect” market, it is the...
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Technology
Taruni Kumar
Writing a tight spec sheet is a pretty good start to completing an outsourcing project successfully,” says Paul Ratnaraj,...
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Ajmal Noorani
MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) technology can improve network performance for select traffic. In the typical network...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Pivia Software, Inc., a Web Application Optimization company, announced that they received $9 million in an additional round of...
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si Team
Venture capital investment last year slumped to its lowest level since 1997, as investors continued to nurse existing portfolio...
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Letters
si Readers
Dutt Dared to Dream
I was impressed reading about Ashoke Dutt in your Dec/Jan issue. To think that an individual has such...
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Leadership
Arun Veembur & Venkat Ramana
When a dying Alexander was asked who he wanted his successor to be, he is said to have whispered “the best.” His...
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In Focus
si Team
In the first Federal law against outsourcing, the U.S. Senate has passed a law barring doling out subcontracts to India and...
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si Team
Ravi Arimilli is the Big Daddy of inventions and innovations in the world of high-tech research. The Indian-born technie was...
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si Team
There is excited speculation doing the rounds that India as all set to become the small car-hub of the world. To see what idea...
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si Team
Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded India’s ceiling for foreign currency bonds and government's foreign currency...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
If one lives in the industrialized world and is literate, one has by now read enough about the phenomenon of jobs being...
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