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There's no doubt this public spending produced some results. The U.S. semiconductor firm AMD, for example, was planning to build a new plant in Ireland. In 1995, however, it switched to the Dresden area - once a high-tech region for the whole Soviet bloc - where it now employs about 2,000 people. Similarly, on the edge of Halle's Neustadt, in a brand-new technology center built on the site of the former Soviet army base, Katja Heppe pulls the claws of a snow crab out of a plastic bag. She's 29, a biotechnology researcher who specializes...
...humiliating blow for Intel, which has played a key role in developing chip technology for over four decades, and can now claim a staggering 80.5% market share in microprocessors. But it represents vindication for Intel's semiconductor rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which filed the original complaint in 2000. And it also underlines the power and authority of the Commission, which has now established itself as the world's most feared antitrust regulator...
...researchers—who worked in conjunction with scientists from the Hamamatsu Photonics laboratory Japan—focused on decreasing the beam divergence of semiconductor lasers by affecting the design of the lasers through nanotechnology, rather than employing typically-used polarizers or laser plates...
This was the first time that semiconductor lasers have been shown to possess decreased beam divergence as compared to standard semiconductor lasers...
...launched its "No Worker Left Behind" program in August 2007. So far the state has footed the bill - up to $10,000 per displaced worker - for 61,434 unemployed Michiganders to learn the math, technology and science skills they need to embark on new careers at companies like Hemlock Semiconductor, Dow Chemical and Dow Corning, which are investing and hiring there. Also in demand: the program's newly trained nursing assistants, physical therapists and health-care technicians...