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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Sunday, January 14, 1996 F4 Out of a 100-person crew, we ht lose onl x because he eliminatior rtime, e getr a higher @ Continued from F-1 UP) tion of Salt the warecentral utilility plant administration building @ Continued fromF-1 Micron will not be 1 anytime soon thav not been 800 work- of th tween 700 50 at Tt the end of last week arehouse ind CUP adation building should be Gary ause Layton Construction. the with peak work force 50. is build ing a central utility plant. a tunnel connecting all the structures and some ancillary buildings Because Micron has sealed back buildings being handled by other contractors, Micron told Laytor not to install millions of dollars ir piping to those structures through the tunnel. In the last twe weeks, Layton has laid off nearly 60 workers and expects to end up with only 100 left by M A consortiumof contractors PCL Enterprises of Denver Lake City-based Sahara Construc tion and MeAlvain Construction of Boise — is building Micron’s testing facility, one of the stru tures Micron has put on hold That group reports its initial 500-member work force has been reduced to 200. but said many of those workers had finished their Lehi tasks anyway and have moved on to other jo The fate of the remaining 200 has not been decided We are maintaining the status quo while Micron decides what state they want to bring us to says PCL Vice President Willie Mizell A{ the same time. officials for Utah's largest commercial con- tractor Big D Construction of Ogden — aren't worried, Nash In fact, Big D’s 1.500-member work force is expected to swell to 1,700 over the next two months as the company gears up for work on the facility’s interior ' y t Semiconductor manufacturers are considering a newplan to es: tablish a network of research and development centers ties nationwide at universt to offset a per h the city ca more gabyte 90% s production is in 4 me DRAM chips, used in ¢ memo ry. That can shift dramatically a ce such as 16 megabyte DRAM prod ucts and a newer product known as a SRAM chip But, points out spok woman wat the company technology vice president of for the Semiconductor will be used in future gen of chips, which formthe guts of electronic device More direct participation by Nabisco, Frito-Lay DRAM chips cally recharged — + TERRITORIES NOW AVAILABLE * FIRST TIME IN THIS AREA Noselling required, Will not interfere with present employment. Accts. set up by Locating Co, Min, investment $5,495. Work 3:4 Hrs,/Wk. Average Nat'l must be periodi“refreshed” by the computer's power source earnings $3,400/Mo. Micron include a Flash chip. a says. dio “That is companies to pc he ll enough for t healthy prof: its. And Micron should do the new competitive envirc The reason: the Bois chip manufacturer never has jeen innovator. It does not spend much money on new re development. Instead market with new, more powerful chips. Micron concentrates on being the low-cost producer Chip-industry watcher Grand bois says as prices fall it should help stimulate demand As the price goes down people who have beenwaiting will eventually find prices are more in another. plastic computer shells are heaped halfway to the ceiling. On steady one recent morning. a WHAM-WHAM-WHAM resoundedfromthecenter of the 33,000-square-foot work space as workers fed fiberglass modem chopped offthe gold-plated connectors. The company is a medium-large player among the 70-odd firms that recover gold fromelectron ies. Gilbert processes 10 tons of junked computers per week from sources as diverse as modemmaker US. Robotics Inc. and other corporations, municipalities. blood banks and, recently, two loads from Purdue University There's not a single company in the world I couldn't walk into and show ‘em where the goldis. Gilbert si Gold, an excellent conductor of electricity, has been used in computers and other electronics products for decades, But recov- around tronic equipment sitting mine in became the richest gold Lutley. the world,” said John an president of the Gold Institute, international trade group near Gold currently trades mate$400an ounce. Gilbert buys pound a rial for about 10 cents andextracts 10 cents to 50 cents worth of gold per pound depend* ing on the material weighi A personal computer 34 pounds contains anywhere of a gram from a quarter-gram to gold, worth $3 to $13, he said Electronics also contain silver, palladium, copper aluminumit of steel, plastic and glass all worth money, Gilbert said manRoyce Peterson assistant ager of purchasing and general services at Purdue's satellite campus in Hobart Ind., said he was morethan pleased to find a buyer for the school’s 800 pounds of outmoded computers. 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SOUTH - CALL (801) 463: -1999 VVVVVVVys) require a power supply, and a ra Cosmetic Transdermal f — have been it upgrading, apparent Coca-Cola, Nestle, cannot predict which product will be manufactured in Lehi three to five years down the road fan of commercial-oriented re- Jim Glaze technol in the market Nash, the computer-chip industry changes so rapidly, a 20% to 25% gr N TVVve Industry Association, said this week that chip makers should es- og manufacturing that need larger business and corporations — a major es the industry calls for newer chip: tablish the networks to develop manufacturing technologies that crucial 95, been seeing a lot of it upgrades and ser worse in time as the federal gov ernment retreats from its role of fostering basic research because of budget voes These cuts have affected everything from the na tional laboratories to grants for universities ceived shortfall in funding for have ipgrading @ buying Pentium ed syster says Rick Payne of Salt Lake Cit ed Robotech ofthe computer's random-ac Windows memory to run. individuals and small companies and variety of other utility lines to the Micron site. nearly as We gold recovery. Aluminum disc drives are stacked in one corner: boards into a machine that year we are now more likel of trying to beat its competitors to rushing out to embrace new com puter programs and technology te construction of an Currently, Industry watchers like the Semiconductor Industry Associa tion project revenue growth will search and arged sewer-treatment plant Semiconductor Center KNIGHT on available with demand up to 4,000 people (nd it still plans. says spoke an Nash, to is: $70.7 mil memory component that doesn't pleted on schedule, sometime over the next year. says Micron’s com- thened prices ipplies anc Now, supply is st rting to catch off chips the site where sophisticated 2000 and that it will em n loans to Lehi so as bleak as manybelieve illion 2000 puter programs and growing use of memory chips in every :hing s to anti-lock from coffee from its promise that the entire multistructured, chip-manufac turing campus will be up and run ploy Daniel Niles, a securities analyst with the Robertson Stephens brokerage. says the picture is not r the past several years Increasingly Up and Running: Through it Mieron refuses to back instead to take a more cautious approach as they watch their bottomlines. per year rakes are actually manufactured, It is the one building that will be com: tion plant Their Mieron’s fabrica mory ond demand for memorychips soared too early to determine the v impact on employment SRAM chips operate faster and don’t require refreshing Other products in the wings for main project is about 20% force will remain, saying it is still all, research administration been stalled hile. Micron officials re predict just how many in total 4,600-member work of the Calif., ataquest e Doug Welling complete — 1 slowdown a y industry analyst at Jose, yleted on schedule ‘al Grandbols, and elecprinted circuit poards @ Continued from F-1 ly choosing z stration had beer ral price , freed from fede when control, gold’s value rocketed ‘an ounce to more than fron $800. old All of a sudden, all the Computers DANIEL NILES Se alyst ¥ et itable in the ering it wasn’t prof the 1970s United States until Gold Firm Mines “instead of growth at 40% per year we are now morelikely to see @ 20% 10 25% growth rate.”” KAADAARAADAAAAAAAALA Chip Industry MaySlow Micron Plant Micron | |
