State-technologist Nexus in Taiwan's high-tech policymaking: semiconductor and wireless communications industries.
The literature on East Asia's political economies identifies cohesive state bureaucracy and its effective intervention in the market as the key factors that have enabled the East Asian economic miracle and that differentiate the success of East Asian newly industrializing countries (NICs) from the failure of other developing countries....

Japan-U.S. trade war?
Introduction There will be no trade war. For over a decade, Japan has been the No. 1 overseas market for the United States. The U.S. is Japan's largest wading partner. Japanese suppliers provide many of the most important components for Cray computers, and to firms such as Apple, DEC,...

Pollution prevention practices in Oregon's electronics industry.
Introduction In 1990, Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act that mandated industries to implement pollution prevention programs to decrease the amount and toxicity of hazardous products used in production processes (1). Pollution prevention reduces waste at the source, which decreases the cost of treatment, and also eliminates the undesirable...

Intel - memories and the microprocessor.
SINCE 1992, INTEL CORPORATION HAS BEEN the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world when ranked on the basis of sales, achieving this position in less than twenty-five years. The company was formed in 1968 to make complex integrated circuits. Its annual revenue in 1995 was over $16 billion; in 1995...

Recycling Spent Ultrapure Rinse Water--A Case Study in the Use of a Financial Analysis Tool.
Abstract This paper profiles the cost and the profitability potential associated with recycling and reuse of ultrapure rinse waters left over from semiconductor wafer-rinsing processes. An environmental health and safety financial software tool was used to a) account for costs, b) estimate their financial impact, and c)...

THEY INVENTED IT WHEN?
THE FLUSH TOILET The world's first flushing toilet was built for a queen--Queen Elizabeth I, whose godson, Sir John Harington, installed one of his newfangled devices for her in 1596. The technology became more accessible in 1775, when Alexander Cumming made a sliding-valve flush toilet with a...

Silicon Valleys.
Cheap, abundant silicon, the stuff computer chips are made of, is also the material of choice for solar cells, devices that transform sunlight into electricity. Silicon, however converts at most only about 25 percent of the sunlight that hits it; increasing that percentage would go a long way toward...

Intel rewards America's most promising young scientists.
While many of his peers were practicing three-point turns and studying for their driver's tests, Logan Kleinwaks spent his time researching a theoretical physics project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Logan's research recently won the 17 year-old high school senior a trip to attend the Nobel...

Electric currents: as Americans worry about oil prices, global warming and a disintegrating nuclear industry, renewable energy is making a comeback.
This just in from the Cato Institute: Renewable energy is "expensive, environmentally counterproductive and unsustainable." Cato President Robert L. Bradley says that electricity from renewable energy plants "is, on average, twice as expensive as electricity from the most economical fossil-fuel alternative." There's a reason for that, and Cato -...

Onward and upward with chips.
Engineers have spent the last few decades shrinking more and more electronic circuits onto semiconductor chips. Judging from the proliferation of gadgets and personal computers, they've done a pretty good job. But they all know that the party can't last, that sooner or later they're going to reach some...