SILICON VALLEY - NEW CONCEPT ENGLISH 4 - FLUENCY IN ENGLISH

Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science in California Institute of Technology, note that there are now workstations that enable engineers design, test and produce chip right on their desks, much the way an editor creates newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip drop down to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imagination soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office-spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S. a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. "We've got more garages with smart people", Mead observes, "We really thrive on anarchy".

And on Asian. Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of engineering staffs at many Valley firms. And Chinese, Korean, Philipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges. As the head of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge the tighter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets. For instance, Alex Au, a Standford Ph.D. from Hongkong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock memory-chip market. India-born N.Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened AT&T chip plant at Kansas City with financing from the state of Missouri. Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a business classroom for building a global business.

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