HIGH TECH COMES INCHING BACK

摘要

Is the tech wreck over? Evidence of a technology-sector recovery from the worst downturn in history is starting to trickle in. On Feb. 27, Federal Re-serve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that expenditures on computers hit double-digit gains in the final quarter of 2001. Durable goods orders jumped in January. And James C. Morgan, chief executive of Applied Materials Inc., says the bellwether semiconductor equipment industry is finally beginning to show signs of life as factories begin to churn out more chips for everything from PCs to cellular phones to Internet routers. "The industry is beginning to make progress," Morgan says.