Intel: Doomed by Moore’s Law

by | Jun 28, 2002 | POLITICS

A seasoned Silicon Valley businessman — an older man of the pre-dotcom generation who’s seen his fair share of booms and busts — once told me that he had discovered the fatal weakness of the technology industry. It is that semiconductors are the most capital-intensive and innovation-intensive industrial products in history, yet everyone wants to […]

A seasoned Silicon Valley businessman — an older man of the pre-dotcom generation who’s seen his fair share of booms and busts — once told me that he had discovered the fatal weakness of the technology industry. It is that semiconductors are the most capital-intensive and innovation-intensive industrial products in history, yet everyone wants to pretend that they are commodities. “People have no idea what it takes to make these things,” he told me. “They think they’re no different than potatoes. They want

Don Luskin is Chief Investment Officer for Trend Macrolytics, an economics research and consulting service providing exclusive market-focused, real-time analysis to the institutional investment community. You can visit the weblog of his forthcoming book ‘The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid’ at www.poorandstupid.com. He is also a contributing writer to SmartMoney.com.

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