Motorola might well stop the hemorrhaging of its engineering work force, which it was losing in alarming numbers to fabless semiconductor companies. Not every stock price has collapsed. Cirrus Logic, the company Sooch and many others left for their startups, did well last year, as did National Instruments. But those two were about the only gainers, amid a bloody battlefield of high-tech startups that crashed in 2000. During Japan's boom years, the smartest, most international Japanese knew deep in their bones that while Japan had its good points, it was nowhere near as mighty as the starry-eyed prognosticators were saying.
Nobody wins forever.
Not the Japanese, not Michael Dell, not Motorola, Intel, Broadcom or anybody else. All rights reserved.