TSMC, for instance, has been allowed to take an 8% stake in SMIC.It is hard to see China dethroning Taiwan as manager of the world's electronics factories soon, says Peter Sher of the National Chi Nan University.
They have a record of dethroning front-runners who take the state for granted.
At Oracle, says Mr Jarvis, dethroning the barons created order.
This increases the cost and complexity of flash, and slows it down".As well as dethroning flash, phase-change memory could lead to a radical shift in computer design".In addition, PCM offers greater potential for future miniaturisation than flash.
But it helps explain a good deal of California's political malaise: why so few Californians bother to vote; why they seem more interested in initiatives; and why local parties are so extreme (the only chance of dethroning an incumbent is in the primary, where zealots tend to rule the roost).The Democrats in the legislature howl that independent redistricting would help the Republicans.
The host country won 51 gold medals, dethroning the US as the world's sporting superpower.
It has brought Apple somewhat closer to dethroning South Korea's Samsung, which still dominates the smartphone business in terms of number of devices sold.
The ball rocketed more than 300 feet off the ground, and far beyond the right field roof of the Giants' Polo Grounds a blast later estimated at 475 feet (144.8 metres).As Mr Weintraub says, by dethroning the Giants, the Yankees and their bashing style had accelerated the decline of Scientific Baseball.
The Xbox uses standard PC technology, such as a fast Intel chip and an operating system based on Windows 2000, so it is technically more advanced than Sony's offering and boasts more features.Yet Microsoft might lose, for the same reason that no software maker has succeeded in dethroning Windows.
Linux poses little danger to Windows on PCs, but it has limited the progress of Windows in the server market, as governments and big firms have found Linux to be not only less costly but more flexible and more secure.To prevent open standards and Linux from dethroning Microsoft in the way that the PC and Microsoft toppled IBM, the firm is trying to develop other strongholds.
T.S. Eliot's poetry and criticism were influential in dethroning the Romanticism that many poets had adopted in the 1920s and '30s.
