The last time this happened in the Pacific Northwest, the geologists tell us, was 1701 so no one in our lifetime has seen it happen,

The market still likes exciting stories, and currently Silicon Labs is one of the exciting stories. The market likes good double-digit sequential growth.

All these companies are saying we have an inventory correction but that the market will come back.

By the early part of next year, with everything else being equal, Intel should be ahead in the dual-processor side. Intel has bigger (fabrication plants where the chips are made), better margins and a better balance sheet. David beat Goliath, but that was a couple thousand years ago. That happens only once. In the real world, that doesn't happen. A one-year lead is not good enough.

In short, chemistry and chemical engineering contribute in critical ways to the economic strength, security, and well being of the nation.

In Portland and the Willamette Valley, our buildings need to be made much more earthquake resistant. California has had almost 100 years to prepare after the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Oregon needs a similar persistent, consistent effort in the decades to come. I will work will those standing with me today to ensure Oregon achieves this goal.

Intel does not want to be the company that calls the turn. Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

The corporate PC upgrade cycle hasn't really started yet.

That's enough that you have a chance of beating the competition. If it had been a 20 percent improvement, you don't have enough to write home about.

They have to find a very rich, drunken buyer, ... The buyer must be drunk. Anybody who has good sense is not a buyer of AMD's flash business.