When winter arrives, the grasshopper has no food, while the ant is busy living it up. It's a perfect parable for getting reluctant investors to save, and one which more of us should heed, but it's only half the story. Must be great working at this place. Wander into your dimly lit office and just pretend to work all day. Mutter darkly on the way out about vital clandestine code.
Investors reckon someone knows something.
When you've spent as much time in microchips as we have, you can check if they're okay by just biting 'em. But wimpy beginners need machines. Mosaid's churning out test rigs, boosting sales 61 per cent in its latest quarter. HOT Peter Cartwright Pete runs electricity goliath Calpine, whose stock is up 140 per cent in a year as profits roll in from the U.S. power shambles. Just this week, he bought gas spewer Encal Energy to fire up his new plants.