EDN - November 1, 2000

Title:
CEO, 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. Age:
51 Family:
Wife, Patricia Education:
High school: Boarding school in Europe. College: Studied international business.

• BUSINESS_TRENDS
• Spurring market growth
• Out of the hand and onto the desktop
• `Net losses? No way
• New life for old plastics
• Unions seem a small threat to high tech, at least for now
• `Elpida,' a new Japanese DRAM powerhouse
• High tech's dirty little software piracy secret
• Chip implants
• MANAGEMENT
• Hear them out
• Null
• All the news unfit to print

• COVER_STORY
• Cover Story
• Jungle fab
• Silterra Malaysia
• Borneo bound

• DEPARTMENTS
• Electronic Comic
• Company Index
• Companies in this Issue
• Editor's Note
• Fired, fat and happy
• End Note
• Forecasting the communications future
• The Chip Insider
• Beware of buzzwords

• ECONOMIC_OUTLOOK
• Analysis
• Leading U.S. economic indicators slow, but signal continued growth
• Economic Watch
• Business Barometer
• `Tis the season to be manufacturing
• Finance
• Getting on the big board
• Full Web disclosure

• FEATURES
• Environment
• Getting the lead out
• Ready for recycling?
• IP Management
• Working together on licensing standards
• IP poker
• Internet Appliances
• Blue Christmas
• R+D
• As the lab celebrates its 75th, a 75-year-old researcher celebrates 50 years at the lab
• A heavenly haven for researchers
• True "cutting-edge research" involves 2 x 4's, duct tape, toilet paper and good weather