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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: macboy on December 24, 2014, 02:21:33 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on December 24, 2014, 05:50:06 am ---Danaher. --- End quote --- Sad that Fluke is next to suffer this fate. Right? :scared: --- End quote --- Every company that gets acquired by Danaher must follow the Danaher Business System: http://www.danaher.com/our-culture/danaher-business-system Fluke will continue to get squeezed more and more as Danaher extract every last drop of efficiency over decades until the company dissipates is but a shell of it's former self. It's what they do, and they are damn good at it. If you want solid performing shares, buy Danaher. |
| HighVoltage:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 25, 2014, 10:44:28 am --- Fluke will continue to get squeezed more and more as Danaher extract every last drop of efficiency over decades until the company dissipates is but a shell of it's former self. It's what they do, and they are damn good at it. If you want solid performing shares, buy Danaher. --- End quote --- It is kind of scary, when you read the long list of all the companies that belong to Danaher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danaher_Corporation One has to wonder, why they placed Keithley under Tektonix and call it "A Tektronix Company" May be a sign that Keithley will become Tektronix one day and the name will vanish in to thin air. All only for shareholder value! |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: Wuerstchenhund on December 25, 2014, 10:07:14 am --- --- Quote from: Richard Crowley on December 25, 2014, 06:06:44 am ---Oregon is the largest Intel site on the planet. All of the microprocessor processes were developed here, and every Intel CPU since the 386 saw "first silicon" here in our development fabs in Aloha and now in Hillsboro, Oregon. --- End quote --- I don't think that's true. For example, the original Pentium-M (Banias) saw "first silicon" in intel's Israel R&D fab in Haifa where the processor was also developed. The same is true for the mobile Core 2 (Merom) and Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. The truth is that without the R&D fabs in Israel there's a very good chance that intel would have become irrelevant in the general purpose CPU space. --- End quote --- IMHO it shows good management: don't put all your eggs in one basket and therefore have two seperate teams work on different strategies. The roles of the two team may as well have been reversed. |
| Richard Crowley:
--- Quote from: Wuerstchenhund on December 25, 2014, 10:07:14 am --- --- Quote from: Richard Crowley on December 25, 2014, 06:06:44 am ---Oregon is the largest Intel site on the planet. All of the microprocessor processes were developed here, and every Intel CPU since the 386 saw "first silicon" here in our development fabs in Aloha and now in Hillsboro, Oregon. --- End quote --- I don't think that's true. For example, the original Pentium-M (Banias) saw "first silicon" in intel's Israel R&D fab in Haifa where the processor was also developed. The same is true for the mobile Core 2 (Merom) and Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. What has been developed in Oregon however is the architecture that was about to kill intel in the mobile/desktop/server CPU market for good: Netburst. The Israeli engineers essentially saved intel at that time from the Netburst disaster and laid the foundation for subsequent processor series (Core, Core 2, Core i) which brought intel back to success. The truth is that without the R&D fabs in Israel there's a very good chance that intel would have become irrelevant in the general purpose CPU space. --- End quote --- It is true that the low-power designs from the Haifa Design Center probably saved Intel's bacon and we wouldn't be here today without them. However, the device development and process development has been based in Oregon since the late 1970s when the Logic Technology Development operation moved up from the Silicon Valley. At any given time we have 100s of people from all the high-volume manufacturing fabs all over the planet are here in Oregon to transfer each new process from D1 to their respective factories from Dalian to Leixlip and Kiryat Gat and points in between. The product development is done by groups in many places (like Haifa) using the design rules we develop for each succeeding process. The Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro is the home of all the development fabs: D1C, D1D, and D1X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites |
| N2IXK:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on December 25, 2014, 05:46:33 am --- It's funny because whenever I see one of their old scopes advertised as e.g. "portable, technician, maintenance, logging", I think... why would you need a scope with your chainsaw? ;D Tim --- End quote --- Because they are referring to "well logging" in the oil and gas industry, where analog TEK scopes were a well established standard, and are apparently still in demand (even the lousy 900 series stuff): http://www.logwell.com/tech/oscilloscopes/Tek_T922R.html |
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