Ghoul Patrol

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu
Fri Feb 25 13:46:34 PST 2000


Two juicy little items for anyone who takes an unholy delight in watching what's left of the Pax Americana shred itself into oblivion:

(1) Gardner's 2000 machine-tool survey, over at <http://www.gardnerweb.com/consump/produce.html>, reveals that the EU was responsible for 54% of world machine-tool output in 1999, East Asia weighed in at 32.5%, while the US produced only 12.6% (machine-tools are the DNA of any industrial base, i.e. machines which produce other machines).

(2) Capital investment in Taiwan is reaching astonishing heights; foundry firm TSMC is planning to invest almost as much as Intel this year, despite revenues which are maybe 14% those of Intel's. For the details, see: <http://www.semibiznews.com/st/news/story/OEG20000224S0002>

-- Dennis



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