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Check out Ted Gallagher interview in new, improved "SEMI Global Update" |
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Mar 07, 2007 at 04:15 PM |
The March edition of SEMI's Global Update newsletter arrived in my emailbox yesterday, and it has a new, improved look.
The enhanced design is good news in and of itself, since SEMI has not always hit the mark historically when it reworked certain products and allegedly "improved" them. You may remember the painful SEMI Website makeover a few years back, which turned a functional albeit stodgy site into a collection of nonintuitive, inconsistenty linked boondoggles wrapped inside an acutely user-unfriendly interface. (Thankfully, the latest incarnation of www.semi.org is a huge improvement.)
The lead item in the newsletter is an entertaining and insightful interview with equipment wars veteran Ted Gallagher, the latest installment in Craig Addison's oral history project. Gallagher, the founder of both Tegal and Matrix Integrated Systems (got plasma?), recounts his experiences in those heady days of the 1970s and '80s, when the first tool companies emerged and created a new industry. Highly recommended reading, especially for those seeking some historical context in redefining business plans in a moving-target market environment.
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