Intel has specialised in producing chips for computing; Altera's expertise is semiconductors used for communications and data centres.Speaking in Hong Kong, Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of America's Federal Reserve, blamed the American Congress's refusal to allow emerging-market countries a greater say in the IMF for China's decision to create the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
They spent a year designing a new kind of inverter called a microinverter, harnessing expertise in semiconductors, software, communications and power systems.
Mansfield's areas of expertise are wireless and semiconductor tech, but his official title gives him a wide berth at the company.
Many of the methods, types of equipment, and expertise acquired in the semiconductor industry have been successfully applied to AMLCD array processing.
"This enhances the software expertise of Motorola in the semiconductor space," says Billy Edwards, a vice president with Motorolas semiconductor group.
Its main areas of software expertise are in multimedia, semiconductors, education and databases.Encouragingly, half a dozen entrepreneurs have peeled away from Tivoli, the most prominent local software company (which IBM bought last year for $743m).
Bringing the two companies together joined JDS Fitel's leadership in passive optical components, like attenuators and distribution devices, with Uniphase's expertise in active components, like semiconductor lasers.
In Albany, the state university's nanoscience expertise has attracted a consortium of semiconductor companies working on collaborative research, bringing facilities and jobs to the area, and encouraging students to start related enterprises.
At Spectrolab he has adapted his expertise to the growth of compound semiconductors and multilayer films.
His expertise includes silicides, electrochemical processes with semiconductors, and solar cells.
