Trying to Change the Corporate Culture of a Multinational Enterprise: General Semiconductor 1. In your opinion‚ what actions taken by Ostertag stood the most chance of changing General Semiconductor’s culture? His decision to “replace nearly every member of the company’s senior management team” could have been more effective and beneficial had he only replaced those on the management team who were not upholding and enforcing the values and cultures of the company. The “team-building meeting
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This document highlights the principal reliability challenges associated with key semiconductor technologies and identifies the research needs to assess and control the reliability risks. Based upon the consensus of the Reliability Technical Advisory Board (RTAB)‚ the top five issues that deserve the most attention are high-k gate dielectrics‚ metal gate‚ copper/low-k interconnects‚ packaging‚ and design and test for reliability. Within high-k gate dielectrics‚ metal
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Unit-II: MOS/BiCMOS Process Technology and Integration Introduction BiCMOS = CMOS + Bipolar (BJT) structures on the same substrate. Advantanges of CMOS device: 1. Low Power 2. High digital IC density. Advantages of Bipolar transistors: 1. Ability to deliver large drive currents 2. Capability to rapidly charge heavy loads. The implementation of digital bipolar circuits with emitter-coupled logic (ECL) gates permits small logic swings and excellent noise immunity
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American Semiconductor‚ Inc. is a relatively new business that "provides custom and standard processing services to fabless and IDM companies and researchers." With the deregulation of certain markets and increasing environmental concerns‚ the company operates in a rapidly changing business environment. The prospects of American Semiconductor’s products are frequently reviewed‚ as with any organization‚ and the company’s strategy is constantly analyzed. Therefore‚ the business decided to relinquish
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Case #3 The Lakeside Company: Auditing Cases Analysis of a Potential Audit Client · Benjamin Rogers is president of the Lakeside Company‚ a retailer/ distributer of consumer electronics. · Rogers is unsatisfied with King and Company’s CPAs‚ and has been in contact with Abernethy and Chapman. · Abernethy and Chapman has never had a client in this field and they look forward to breaking into a new market. · Lakeside has grown at a steady rate in the last decade
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MGMT-364 Section 900 Group Assignment: Intel Case Intel Corporation is known for it’s innovative successes and the ability to think outside the box. Some of Intel’s sources of competitive advantages in DRAM were that they were able to make a smaller product‚ they were able to create a complex product that helped deal with the imitation issue and they were able to a more cost effective product. Intel’s sources of competitive advantages for microprocessors on the other hand were
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Teradyne Case Study 1. The vision that Nick DeWolf had for Teradyne’s value proposition was to provide quality electrical test equipment to fulfill the large need in the market for reliable electronic components in the 1960’s industrial market. DeWolf felt that there was a problem in the market as many users had to build their own equipment to test as there was a lack of competent and capable producers in the semiconductor component testing field. These users and companies must use valuable time
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Intel case 1.1 Describe the type of business in which Intel operates. Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara‚ California. Intel is the largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker‚ based on revenue. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets‚ network interface controllers and integrated circuits‚ flash memory‚ graphic chips‚ embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Read the letters
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T NO This case was researched by Stephanie Weiss and written by Matt Kelemen‚ under the supervision of Kathleen A. Meyer‚ executive director of The Business Enterprise Trust. 9-996-051 CO PY Motorola In 1979‚ Motorola was one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electronic equipment and components with $2.7 billion in sales (Exhibit 1: 1979 Earnings Statement). The company designed‚ manufactured and sold products ranging from semiconductors to stereo tape players
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Case Study One: Amazon.com Amazon started as an e-commerce book site and has now added music‚ toys‚ electronics‚ software‚ and home improvement equipment to its list of product offerings. The Amazon supply chain is longer than that of a bookstore chain such as Borders or Barnes and Noble because of the presence of an additional intermediary—the distributor. The distributor margins in the Amazon supply chain can also be viewed as an increase in cost. However‚ Amazon has exploited several opportunities
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