...DIVERSIFICATION AND GLOBAL POSITION 3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is ranked as the as the world’s second largest PC chipmaker with a market share of just 17%, far behind Intel Corp. with 81% of the market (Buckman and Williams 2001, 1). However, in 2000 AMD’s sales jumped 63% to $4.6 billion, producing $983 million in net income and its first profitable year since 1995 (Streetwalker 2001, 1). AMD owns engineering, manufacturing, warehousing and administrative facilities where it produces not only PC chips but also microprocessors, memory circuits, logic circuits, flash memory devices, telecommunication products and embedded processors (Moody’s 2000, 2520). The company’s headquarters and research and development site are located in Sunnyvale, CA, while the wafer manufacturing plants are located in Austin, TX and Dresden, Germany. The test and assembly facilities are located in Bangkok, Thailand and Penang, Malaysia. The company has also established production at the Singapore’s test and assembly facility as well as an analysis and design plant in Suzhou, China. In addition, a new plant in Japan, a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu, called AMD Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. or FASB, will begin operations in the first half of 2001 (Dum 2000, 2). AMD, like many technological multinational enterprises (MNE), prefers to locate its factories and assembly plants in technology clusters in stable and democratic countries. However, AMD knows that East Asia is one of the best...
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...company’s policy today. Advanced Micro Devices was founded in 1969 by a group of former executives from Fairchild Semiconductor. The company began by exclusively designing and producing microprocessors and slowly building on their core competencies to foray into other computer hardware. In 1975, AMD introduced a reverse-engineered clone of the Intel 8080 microprocessor. Even then Intel chip architecture was considered the industry standard. AMD’s laggard position in the industry can be traced all the way back to the beginning. Throughout the seventies AMD diversified its product portfolio into graphics, audio devices, and computer memory. AMD achieved minor success in the 1980s by briefly competing in the modem industry. At the time, AMD manufactured the only modem compatible with the various idiosyncrasies of the different telephone companies. In the late eighties AMD decided to devote its focus mainly to designing and manufacturing microchips. The company chose to compete directly with Intel and their established chip architecture. AMD acquired ATI Technologies in 2006, marking the company’s serious entry into the graphics industry. AMD’s jump into graphics got off to a rocky start. Later that year, AMD and its main rival in the graphics industry, NVIDIA, were accused of price fixing and faced court proceedings. After a prolonged period of poor performance, AMD announced plans to spin-off manufacturing operations to form a joint venture with Advanced Technology Investment Co...
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...Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse Final Project Windy Allen South University Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse Final Project A thorough look was taken into the role of the advanced practice nurse during this course. There are many different roles that a nurse may pursue as a graduate of a master's in nursing program. The choice may involve direct or non-direct patient care depending on your interests. Leadership styles were also explored and these styles help to mold a person in their career as a nurse. Finally a look into health policies was taken. The policies and how a nurse can make a difference were explored. This course explored many ways that an advanced practice nurse can contribute to the well being of others. Advanced practice roles in nursing Advanced practice nursing is divided into two groups, direct patient care and non-direct patient care. Direct patient care can be described as directly assessing, observing and recording information about a patient and using that information to treat the patient. Listed below are four advanced degree nursing specialties along with their requirements. A nurse practioner is a registered nurse that has received their masters of science in nursing with a nurse practioner emphasis. The approved program must include 500 contact hours. At that point the graduate may sit for certification according to the American Nurses Credentialing Center Nurse. (2014) Nurse practioners give direct patient care. http://www.nursecredentialing...
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...Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): Strategic Plan for Managing Technological Innovation TM 583 – Section C Professor Edmead 8/21/10 Section 1 – Strategy TCO F – Given an organizational and industry context, identify and suggest a deployment strategy that will facilitate the success of a technologically-driven organization. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), founded 1968, in Sunnyvale, California is a producer of Central Processing Units (CPUs), the main computing component in modern computers. AMD’s primary capability is the design and engineering of consumer, workstation, and server CPUs. Initially, AMD competed with Intel by reverse-engineering the original 8080 processors and then creating their own x386 variant, but a lack of funding stymied sustained, long-term innovation (Valich 2008). In many ways, this scenario is quite indicative of the role AMD has played throughout its history: the underdog. They leveraged their core competencies of microprocessor engineering by assimilating the designs and processes of competitors and then building upon that knowledge to create profitable (usually) products and services. However, AMD has experienced PR missteps (like the Phenom I TLB bug debacle on an already late-to-market product) from which they have struggled to recover. In order to re-gain the confidence of partners, suppliers, and consumers, AMD must prove, once again, that it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. 2 Looking toward...
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...Advanced Fuel Corporation Kaize Lei Yu Wu Minh Nguyen 1. The type of financing largely depends on 3 factors: - Financial status of AFC - Amount of upside gain in a diversified portfolio - Record of past banking involvement in corporate venturing Advanced fuels Corporation is still at the early stage of formation, thus it is unlikely to break even in the future years and its probability of bankruptcy is high. Due to the difficulty in classifying loans to friends into either current or non-current liabilities, the exact ratio cannot be calculated. If the ratio is less than 1, then this means AFC will have trouble paying interest repayments if business suddenly fails. Investment banks cannot achieve their desired results by forming portfolios of risky debt securities because it cannot share fully in upside gains beyond the stated interest rate. 2. Planning: Finding out all the advantages and disadvantages of the proposal. This involves looking at all the components of the business plan to see if it is reliable and that the information is reasonable. Researching: Find out what Dr. Aplin’s work and education history to establish what his skills are and if the skills are related to the firm he proposes to start. Capitalist’s analysis: This can mean talking to other entrepreneurs who have started business with an innovative idea and have now established themselves as a mature company. 3. Liquidation Value The liquidation value is the value if the business is liquidated...
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...CHAPTER 3 CONSOLIDATIONS—SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE OF ACQUISITION Answers to Discussion Questions How Does a Company Really Decide which Investment Method to Apply? Students can come up with literally dozens of factors that should be considered by Pilgrim in making the decision as to the method of accounting for its subsidiary, Crestwood Corporation. The following is simply a partial list of possible points to consider. Use of the information. If Pilgrim does not monitor its own income levels closely, applying the equity method would seem to be a waste of time and energy. A company must plan to use the additional data before the task of accumulation becomes worthwhile. Size of the subsidiary. If the subsidiary is large in comparison to Pilgrim, the effort required of the equity method may be important. Income levels would probably be significant. However, if the subsidiary is actually quite small in relation to the parent, the impact might not be material enough to warrant the extra effort. Size of dividend payments. If Crestwood pays out most of its earnings each period as dividends, that figure will approximate equity income. Little additional information would be accrued by applying the equity method. In contrast, if dividends are small or not paid on a regular basis, a Dividend Income balance might vastly understate the profits to be recognized by the business combination. Amount of excess amortizations. If Pilgrim has paid a significant amount in excess of book value so that...
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...Advanced Degreed Nurses Improve Patient Safety ADVANCED DEGREED NURSES IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY Nurses have an obligation to patients and to patients’ families to deliver competent and safe quality of care. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing stated “education has a significant impact on the knowledge and competencies of the nurse clinician.” (Fact sheet AACN). My choice to return to school is a direct reflection on my commitment to give the absolute best care possible. In my nursing career I have been privileged to work as both a floor nurse and a management nurse each requiring their own level of nursing and understanding of all aspects of patient quality. As nurses’ duties increase in difficulty and diversity, so must our knowledge base. The Tricouncil for nursing issued a “calling all RN/s to advance their education in the interest of enhancing quality and safety across the settings.”(May 2010). Advanced level nurses not only give excellent patient care increasing safety, but also serve as mentors and role model to new graduate nurses and ancillary nursing staff. This increases patient safety, allow the new nurses to grow in a positive learning environment and results in overall improved quality of care. Throughout the past two years I have worked as a pool nurse going to the various hospital departments improving my clinical skill and adding to by core of nursing knowledge. In that time I have met and worked with several of the advanced level nurses...
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...Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO Bert Hubert Netherlabs BV Gregory Maxwell Remco van Mook Martijn van Oosterhout Paul B Schroeder Jasper Spaans Revision History Revision 1.1 DocBook Edition 2002−07−22 A very hands−on approach to iproute2, traffic shaping and a bit of netfilter. Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO Table of Contents Chapter 1. Dedication.........................................................................................................................................1 Chapter 2. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................2 2.1. Disclaimer & License.......................................................................................................................2 2.2. Prior knowledge................................................................................................................................2 2.3. What Linux can do for you...............................................................................................................3 2.4. Housekeeping notes..........................................................................................................................3 2.5. Access, CVS & submitting updates..................................................................................................3 2.6. Mailing list..............................................
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...Advanced Accounting Practice Exam II: (Chapters 11, 15, 16) Multiple Choice (Concepts) 1. Chicago based Corporation X has a number of exporting transactions with companies based in Sweden. Exporting activities result in receivables. If the settlement currency is the Swedish Krona, which of the following will happen by changes in the direct or indirect exchange rates? A. Option A B. Option B C. Option C D. Option D 2. When a partner retires from a partnership and the retiring partner is paid more than the capital balance in her account, which of the following explains the difference? I. The retiring partner is receiving a bonus from the other partners. II. The retiring partner's goodwill is being recognized. A. I only B. II only C. Either I or II D. Neither I nor II 3. In the computation of a partner's Loss Absorption Power (LAP), the individual partner's capital balance and profit-and-loss percentage are used in which of the following ways? A. Option A B. Option B C. Option C D. Option D Multiple Choice (Calculation) . Myway Company sold equipment to a Canadian company for 100,000 Canadian dollars (C$) on January 1, 20X9 with settlement to be in 60 days. On the same date, Alman entered into a 60-day forward contract to sell 100,000 Canadian dollars at a forward rate of 1 C$ = $.94 in order to manage its exposed foreign currency receivable. The forward contract is not designated as a hedge. The spot rates were: 1. Based on the...
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...------------------------------------------------- 2G, 3G and 4G TECHNOLOGY 2G Technology 2G refers to second generation wireless telecommunication technology. While its predecessor, 1G, made use of analog radio signals, 2G uses digital radio signals. Based on what type of multiplexing is employed, 2G technologies may be categorized by whether they are based on time division multiple access (TDMA) or code division multiple access (CDMA). Code division multiple access is a digital radio system that transmits streams of bits (PN Sequences). It permits several radios to share the same frequencies. Unlike time division multiple access, all radios can be active all the time, because network capacity does not directly limit the number of active radios. Since larger numbers of phones can be served by smaller numbers of cell-sites, CDMA-based standards have a significant economic advantage over TDMA-based standards. The main 2G TDMA standard is: * GSM (Global System for Mobile communications)--is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. GSM accounts for over 80% of all subscribers around the world. It makes international roaming very common between mobile phone operators, enabling subscribers to use their phones in many parts of the world. GSM differs from 1G in that both signaling and speech channels are digital. The main 2G CDMA standard is: * IS-95 (Interim Standard 95) is the first CDMA-based digital cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm....
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...Name: John Smith Date: 11/13/12 Case Name: Advanced Technologies, Inc. Section I: Advanced Technologies, Inc. was a leading supplier of equipment for the semiconductor industry. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, ATI had plants in Arizona and California and a sales and service network of 21 offices in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Asia-Pacific. In October 1997, the CEO was reviewing a five-year financing plan. Sales of semiconductor equipment soared at a 52% annual compound rate during 1993-1996, or approximately twice the growth rate during the prior seven-year period and three times the sales growth of the semiconductor industry. Equipment providers were suddenly faced with capital spending cutbacks, order cancellations, and requests by customers for extended terms. Over the long-term, demand for semiconductor equipment was expected to resume its double-digit growth. New uses were growing far beyond the computer-in communications, transportation, medical technology, automation, and a host of consumer products: pocket-size cellular phones, interactive video games, digital VCRs, laser scanners, camcorders, and high-definition TV. To be competitive, suppliers must advance complex chips from the drawing board to the printed circuit board and provide production-worthy systems that can be supported on a 24 hour, worldwide basis. Section II As an external consultant, I recommend selling another convertible subordinated debenture with the coupon interest rate...
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...Advanced Directives Death is in a sense inevitable, we can’t escape from it. In today’s day in age, we are living longer than our parents and our grandparents due to medical technology. But there are so many ethical issues and complications that go hand and hand with death. There are two forms of death, cardiac and brain-oriented. Determining these two forms of death, along with the determined time of death is vital, simply because we don’t want to treat a living person as if they were dead. With so many issues concerning death, we have to protect those who are on the brink of death or terminally ill and can’t speak for themselves, but allowing them to make preparations for the future. Advanced directives makes this possible, defined as legal documents that allow you to convey your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. “They provide a way for you to communicate your wishes to family, friends and health care professionals, and to avoid confusion later on.” (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/advancedirectives.html) Given the difficulties that come with making end-of-life decisions, many find those decisions to be unethical or even lawful in a sense. The choices that are made in some cases won’t please everyone and that includes family and close friends or even outsiders who are openly against making these types of choices. A living will can be used in the situation that an individual isn’t able to make life ending decisions on their own, providing a way to...
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...satellite-based distribution system, and by keeping store location costs to a minimum by placing stores on low-cost land outside small to medium-sized towns, no matter in the US or in its abroad affiliations. Since, Walmart Company is obviously taking the cost leadership strategy, it uses the efficient stock control system and imports many goods from China for low cost which helps to make its operating costs lower. So the company-level strategy of Walmart is low cost and low cost, with little differentiation strategy To support its corporate strategy, HR strategies are also carried out in a low cost manner. For that Walmart follows somewhat aggressive HR policy and practices to reduce costs. From recruitment and selection to advanced HR practices this aggressiveness can clearly be seen which the company believes that it’s the ‘best fit’ for their corporate strategy. Since the...
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...Advanced Language Practice with key Michael Vince with Peter Sunderland English Grammar and Vocabulary MACMILLAN Macmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX4 3PP A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 1 405 00762 1 with key ISBN 1 405 00761 3 without key Text © Michael Vince 2003 Design and illustration © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003 First published 1994 This edition published 2003 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. Designed by Mike Brain Graphic Design Limited Layout and composition by Newton Harris Design Partnership Cover design by Oliver Design Illustrated by: Ed McLachlan pp 109; Julian Mosedale pp 12, 39, 110, 123, 153, 176, 195, 217, 225, 257; David Parkins pp 3, 42, 73; Martin Shovel pp 10, 16, 56, 70, 117, 147, 235, 285; Bill Stott pp 122; Kingsley Wiggin pp 24, 27, 57, 191, 220. Photographs by: Eyewire, Photodisc and Andrew Oliver. The author would like to thank the many schools and teachers who have commented on these materials. Also special thanks to Peter Sunderland and Sarah Curtis. Printed and bound in Italy by G. Canale and C. S.p. A Borgaro T.se, Turin 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 1 09 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Introduction Vlll Grammar 1 Present...
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...Advanced English ‘Homecoming’ was written in 1968. This was at the height of the Vietnam War when the tide was turning and the anti-war movement was gaining momentum. In his poem, Dawe depicts the harsh realities of war. One of the main ideas explored in the poem is the senseless waste of human life during the war. Dawe uses many techniques to convey his message. “All day, day after day”, the repetition emphasises the futility and senselessness and creates an image of a continuous flow of bodies; it implies that the war is never ending. This is not unique to the Vietnam War, and many still face these realities in war, this means the audience connects to and feels empathy for the situation, as it still exists today. Loss of hope is another prominent idea in the poem; the imagery in “telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree” forces the reader to imagine the leaves, fragile and dying. Personification likens these leaves to the telegrams being opened. This idea is further shown in the last line “they’re bringing them home, now, too late, too early”, the paradox in the line expresses almost bitterness, a loss of hope and futility. It evokes strong emotions from the reader. The effects of war on the environment and communities can be seen in “the steaming chow mein”, in which Dawe uses a common Vietnamese food to express the destruction of the landscape. They all felt for the soldiers and respected their efforts, even the dogs who “raised muzzles in mute salute”...
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