Skills Shortage, Sky-High Home Prices Arrest This Chip Designer's Penang Presence

Altera Corporation Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Altera Malaysia, Jordan S. Plofsky, discusses: - The business of programmable logic device manufacturing; - Difference with fixed logic devices; - Their practical applications; - How Altera feeds into the smartphone and tablet craze; - Biggest clients; - December profit warnings from semiconductor makers - weak spots - soft markets - sales performance undershooting end-market demand; - Semiconductor company - high long-term correlation with America’s GDP; - FT: "barring a dramatic change in fortunes, semiconductor stocks may continue to hold a mirror to a global economy that is getting uglier" - whether too draconian; - In Penang since 1994 - reasons - challenges; - Skills shortage - housing prices; - Extent of R&D activities; - Views: LGE-DAP government - openness - ease of doing business - bureaucracy - corruption - leakages.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.