They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I still love the semiconductor industry.
All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.
We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition.
In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.
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