United Microelectronics Corporation Essays

  • Implementing Innovative Manufacturing Techniques

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    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd has unveiled a new and possibly controversial strategy that involves more collaboration in the early stages of the IC design process. TSMC's program is aimed to reduce development cycles and manufacturing costs, according to analysts. But it could also possibly cause a major stir in the industry, as the silicon foundry giant wants more of the IC pie and appears to be encroaching on the turf in the third-party EDA, IP, packaging and test communities.

  • Remembering the Radium Girls

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    The Radium Luminous Material Corporation was founded in 1914 (renamed in 1921 to the United States Radium Corporation) by Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky and Dr. George S. Willis becoming the first U.S. company to produce radioluminescent paint. The paint used by this particular company was the trademarked "Undark", invented by William J. Hammer through mixing radium, zinc sulfide and glue with the help from Marie and Pierre Currie and Henri Becquerel. The corporation hired hundreds of women having

  • Overview of the WARN Act

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    became effective on February 4, 1989 (Department of Labor, 2013). Unlike other laws that are enforced by certain government or federal agencies, the WARN Act in which an employee, their representative, or a government official has the right to sue in a United States District Court in order to enforce the act. The Department of Labor (DOL) has no authority to enforce the WARN Act, but does have authority to disseminate the regulations. There are many implications that has been mandated under the WARN Act

  • Whistleblowing and Corporate Ethics: Hughes Aircraft

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    has responsibility to Hughes Microelectronics because she is an employee of the company and is responsible for the testing floor operation. Because of her responsibility to which the company delegates, Goodearl is obligated to act based on principles that will maximize the overall result of the company. Third, Goodearl is obligated to serve her country, to act for the benefit of the United States. In Hughes Aircraft case however, Goodearl's obligation to the United States is in conflict with the

  • High-Tech Workers in the Silicon Valley

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    manufacturing power after World War II. The Cold War furthered this development, as industries involved in defense, aerospace, steel, oil, automobiles, and so on prospered (Hossfeld 405-406). The high-technology industry began in the laboratories of corporations such as Bell Laboratories, American Telephone and Telegraph, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, and General Electric during this Cold War era (Bacon, “Organizing”). Employment in California, especially Silicon Valley, grew rapidly between 1950 and

  • The AT&T Restructuring of 1995

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    step to capitalize on the opportunities in each business' segment of the global information industry -- communications services, communications equipment, and transaction-intensive computing." Under the plan, a fourth business -- AT&T Capital Corporation -- would be sold, and AT&T shareowners would hold shares in each of the three remaining companies. "Changes in customer needs, technology and public policy are radically transforming our industry," said Robert E. Allen. "We now see this restructuring

  • Akio Morita, Co-Founder of Sony Corporation

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    Akio Morita (盛田昭夫) was the co-founder of Sony Corporation with his friend Masaru Ibuka. As a leader of Sony, He changed the accepted marketing concepts and focussed on brand-name identification and brand responsibility - a concept widely used today but virtually unheard of then. By insisting on producing high quality products with cutting edge technology, Morita transformed the reputation of the Japanese technology industry so that it became associated with superior quality rather than inexpensive

  • History Of Sony

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    HISTORY OF SONY- THE MAJOR ELECTRONIC BRAND Soni Kabushiki Gaisha, commonly referred to as Sony, derived the name from Latin word Sonus, is a Japanese Multinational Conglomerate Corporation its headquartered are in Konan Minto, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified business is mainly focused on the electronic goods - game, entertainment financial services sectors etc. The company is one of the best manufacturers of electronic goods for the Consumer and Professionals. Sony established in the wake of World

  • The Manufacturing Industry in India

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    India’s manufacturing sector is an important cog in the wheel of economic progress and development; the segment’s contribution to the Gross Domestic Product is 16% ( India Brand Equity Foundation, September 2013). Post economic liberalisation era, India has realised the important role of manufacturing industry in the overall industrial development. In this context even the government has been very proactive. The recent initiative counts back to the announcement of the manufacturing policy in 2010

  • Migrant Farmers

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    Migrant Farmers of The Depression Era:Then and Now ---Life on migrant farmers was very hard during the Great Depression. Farmers struggled with low prices for the crops they produced all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began to really down hill. During WWI farmers worked hard to produce record crops and livestock but after the war, when demand fell, prices fell so farmers tried to produce even more to pay their debts. In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers either couldn't

  • South Korea

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    Conference at the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union jointly established temporary administrative trusteeship over Korea until democratic elections could be held. Japanese forces south of the thirty-eighth parallel surrendered to the United States and forces in the north surrendered to the U.S.S.R. The Soviets blocked attempts to hold nationwide elections, and the two sides became deadlocked. When authorities in the north ignored a United nations resolution for supervised elections

  • The Impact of Computers On Our Lives

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    The Impact of Computers On Our Lives Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the US and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for

  • Questions and Answers Regarding Artificial Intelligence

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    are determined they will realize many of their goals, namely, to produce systems that can converse in a natural language, understand speech and visual scenes, learn and refine their knowledge, make decisions, and exhibit other human traits. In the United States, firstly, there was the formation of a consortium of private companies in 1983 to develop advanced technologies that apply AI te... ... middle of paper ... ... it cannot find a match then that predicate expression fails and the interpreter

  • Corporate Culture and HR Strategies of Northrop Grumman

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    world. How an organization determines the demand for employees is a result of demand for the organization’s products or services. How Northrop Grumman satisfies these goals and demands shall be analyzed. Company Overview: Northrop Grumman (NG) Corporation is a global defense company headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. Northrop Grumman provides technologically advanced, innovative products, services and solutions in systems integration, defense electronics, information technology, advanced aircraft

  • Overview of CYC Project

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    Overview of CYC Abstract The CYC project is the first serious attempt to build a base of human consensus knowledge -- to encode common sense. The CYC system is intended to provide a "deep" layer of understanding that can eventually be used by other programs to make them more flexible and less "brittle". This paper discusses of the motivations behind the encoding of common sense, provides an overview of the CYC system and touches on some of its applications. Introduction Often it is enough

  • Comparing the Theme of Technology Versus Nature in Frankenstein and Neuromancer

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    Technology Versus Nature in Shelley’s Frankenstein and Gibson’s Neuromancer At first glance, a comparison of Shelley’s Frankenstein and Gibson’s Neuromancer could seem rather irrelevant having in mind that these two works are separated by more than a century. During this lapse of time, humanity has witnessed profound changes at a breath-taking speed. The partly Gothic and partly Romantic world of Mary Shelley is quite different from the reality Gibson predicts. We could not say, however, that

  • Market Opportunity Analysis

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    Market Opportunity Analysis Ruonan Tan 0423688 Introduction In our modern society , lots of companies are surrounded by the numerous competition and dealt with many questions , for example , are your products consistent with your customers’ current and future needs? Do you have a flow of new products to meet the information needs of your market? Are the products you’re developing strategically significant? The answer is unkown , because the market opportunity analysis for every product is playing

  • Clear Channel Essay

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    INTRODUCTION      Would people be willing to pay $12.50/month for commercial free radio beamed right to their car or home. Well two companies and many big investors are betting about $3 billion dollars that people are willing to do just that. In 1997, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) granted a portion of the S-band spectrum for satellite radio and two companies purchased use of these bands and started the only two companies competing in the satellite radio business

  • Software Patents and Copyright Laws Destroy Free Competition

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    workings of the new invention to the public. Absolute Monopoly - this is what it means! The people who have come up with the idea of protecting the innovation and so called rewards to the innovators never thought that what it may mean to the corporations and how it will kill the innovation in the software industry. As Stallman said “Software patents are a danger that affects all programmers and all computer users. I found out about them of course in working on Free Software because they are a danger