U.S. Manufacturing Dead?

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  1. BuckeyeT

    BuckeyeT Well-Known Member

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    There is much, much more to industrial manufacturing in the US than the domestic automakers......great news for you Tom!

    http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...68A-19FD-44F7-B565-FD8652169096}&siteid=yhoof
     
  2. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    Should be excellent news for Tom's company.
     
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    What a great lead....I hope others will step up and follow.

    Must make Tom proud to be an Intel employee....I know I would be.
     
  4. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    Tom doesn't work for Intel. He works for a company who makes the equipment that Intel will use in it's factories, he used to work for Intel.

    I can't remember the name of the company though for some reason.

    Terry
     
  5. BuckeyeT

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    Applied Materials - one of the great companies in the world. They are the dominant provider of the chip fab equipment that Intel - and everybody else - uses in their plants. They are and have been among the technology bellwethers dominating their industry ala Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, et al for years. A great, great company and another perfect example of US industrial and innovative dominance - they can't even see their closest competitor on a wide view radar......obviously great employees, eh Tom?! 8)