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21) - MANCHESTKR HERAU). Thursdiiy, Pel, 20, 1983 Electronics Industry One-product firm GRossmnn's diversifies, survives p r o d u c t s com PRnv Bv Bruce B. Bakke the earlier I6K chip) and we had the Ufiited Press Internotlonol capital equipment on line to turn them out," said Mostek spokesman Tom CARROLLTON, Texas - United Noonan. • Technologies bought Mostek in 1979 During the shakeup, Mostek cut its and a short time, later the American work force from about 10,000 in 1979 to Truckload Insulation semiconductor industry started to go about 8,000 now. Manchester, Conn. bad. "A lot of non-productive overhead Japan's highly sophisticated elec was eliminated." said Ei'gott. Clear, cold tonight; Friday. Oct. 21, 1983 tronics firms hit the market with the Single copy; 25C force of a Pacific typhoon, shocking WITH THE CHANGING market, he sunny Saturday U.S. competitors by flooding the said, "we had to spend time thinking — See page 2 country with millions of low-priced about ways we could do things more OPEN chips. efficiently and be more competitive." ® anr hf fitr r Hrralb There was talk that American Even during the slump Mostek semiconductor makers would ’ be realized the need for ongoing research SUNDAY Esaai driven out of the business by the and development. "We spend on the inlt'xpensive state-of-the-art products order of 12 percent of our sales dollar on OCT. 23 — including 64K random access R&D," Ergott said. "In this industry O’Neill eyes memory chips — coming from Japan. I'd say that's on the high side. But we 1-4 believe that having technical leader INVENTORY HOURS Approval due cost control THE MOSTEK work force was ship in our products and having good CLOSED SAT. 4:30 trimmed by two major layoffs, Only the product diversification will help us new tie-up with United Technologies — significantly in the future." a $12 billion corporation in 1980 — kept The company "changed direction to for hospitals Mostek afloat. go from being more than 60 percent “ "Mostek could not have survived on dependent on dynamic random access on jobless aid By AAark A. Dupuis its own," said Harold E. Ergott Jr., memories to less than 20 percent United Press International president and chief executive officer of dependent on them." he said. the electronics manufacturer bused in Mostek now is heavily into produc 1 2 1 / 2 0 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Con million people are expected to take HARTFORD — Gov. William tills Dallas suburb. tion of communication products. > Manville gress is expected to give final advantage of the addiilonal benef O'Neill said today he would speak “That was one of the things its Eighty percent of the pulse and tone R 11 3Vi " Unlaced approval today to an 18-montb its in the next IS months, sources with hospital regulators to deter founding fathers had recognized when telephone dialing equipment sold in the extension of the federal benefits said. ATTIC MSULATIOII In addition, about 600,000 people mine if the state should return to a they actively went looking for a world uses Mostek products, Ergott (.ay over present insulation program for the long-term unem stronger role in hospital budget partner. said. • 15 88 t Sq FI Roll 11.00 ployed that expired earlier this would qualify for a “reach back" setting to keep down rising costs. "One of the problems Mostek had week, House Speaker Thomas provision that grants an extra five was that it was a one-product com 'IN THE AREA of microprocessing, O'Neill 8aid. weeks of compensation to those O’Neill said he would ask pany," Ergbtt explained.-"When the Mostek makes a wide variety of chips House and Senate negotiators who exhaust all their benefits. To members of the state Commission Japanese entered the market and that go into Apple personal computers, deadlocked over a technical aspect qualify, individuals must begin on Hospitals and Health Care what caused prices to deteriorate, Mostek and in Coleco and Atari computers. of the extension earlier this week, receiving federal benefits on or legislation, if any, they felt was needed to strengthen the commis had no other products to fall back on." It also is heavily into what it calls allowing the Federal Supplemen after April 1, 1983, and exhaust The company's main product was the tal Compensation program to those benefits by this week. sion's role in setting hospital semi-custom manufacturing. It sells budgets. 16K chip. Mostek was slow getting to “gate array" devices with with expire at midnight Tuesday. How House, Senate and administra the market with its own 64K RAM unit, hundreds or thousands of partially ever, henefit checks are in no tion representatives broke their The governor said he couldn't an electronic chip capable of storing processed transistor elements. The R-11 3Vj " Krait Manville immediate danger of being cut off. week-long deadline by agreeing on comment specifically on a 14 64,000 bits of data on a surface the size buyer then can have the chip "person WUL MSVUTIMi O'Neill, indicating the differen a transitional provision that allows percent average rate increase of an aspirin tablet. Mostek was written alized' ' by interconnectng the elements • 15' 88 I Sq Ft Roll 14.10 ces have been resolved, told people who exhaust their benefits granted to hospitals this year off by many as one of those companies to create the intended function. • 73 135 1 Sq Ft Roll 21.62 reporters that a compromise bill after this week to collect two to because he didn’t know specifics of that had soared along with the rest of would be considered by the House fhur weeks of additional benefits. how the cost-containment commis the semiconductor indu.stry in the late An international company, Mostek today. The Senate is expected to sion arrived at the increases. 1970s but couldn't survive the pressure has two plants in Malaysia and one in take up the measure immediately Those people in states that Herald photos by Pinto in the fierce competition of the early Ireland. It also has a plant with about afterward, a Senate source said. qualify for 12 or 14 weeks of "ft seems high but I can't ‘80s. 350 employees in Colorado Springs. Congressional negotiators, compensation would be entitled to comment because I have not been After months of severe losses, working in closed sessions all an additional four weeks once they apprised by the hospital commis BUT WHEN it finally came on the Mostek turned the corner and made a we^k, agreed to extend the pro exhaust their federal benefits. Political sion as to their reasoning,” O’Neill market. Mostek's 64K chip was a profit in December 1982. In 1983 the gram through March IS, 1985, well Jobless workers in states with said after swearing in Nancy winner. company put much of its revenue into beyond next year's elections. The lower unemployment rates that faceoff Watters of East Haddam as the "It was a good design — easily R-19 GW Kraft Manville $4.6 billion program would help qualify for only eight or 10 weeks of newest member of the research and development capital but Democrats and Re manufacturable, so we could turn out it reported profitts in August and about 4 million people during that benefits could qualify for an commission. A H K MSHLATIIN additional two weeks when they, publicans squared The Legislature in 1981 reduced the kind of volumes we had before (with September. • 15 49 Sq Fl Roll 11.76 time. Like prior law, the new plan exhaust all their benefits, accord off Thursday night in the commission's powers to review • 23 75 1 Sq FI Roll 16.00 hospital budgets and revamped the would provide eight to 14 weeks of ing to the compromise. a League of Women federal beneilts to individuals who The federal supplemental pro commission from a 17-member, have been without a Job for a long gram is the third tier in unemploy Voters forum at the part-time agency to a three- UTC president claims time, put it eases the formula for ment benefits. Jobless workers are Nathan Hale School. member, full-time operation. computing state eligibility, mean eligible for federal benefits after Democratic director ' Under the revision, the commis- ing IS states would qualify fora full they exhaust a standard 26 weeks . Sion is allowed to review hospital 14 weeks of benefits compared to of state-funded unemployment be candidates Eleanor budgets only when the budgets ‘profiteering’ charges the one — West Virginia — now nefits and, in some cases, an Cpltman and incum exceed a certain inllation factor. Manville eligible for the maximum nuinber aadltlonaf 13 weeks of. extended bent Stephen T. Cas- The previous commi$sion had R-19 6V. " Krait of weeks of federal compensation. benefits Jointly funded by states sano (above) and greater authority in setting hosp>- ATTK MSULATIOII Between 3.2 million and 3.4 and the federal government. tal budgets. are without evidence • 15 49 Sq Ft Roll 13.23 Republicans Harry Ms. Watters said she believed • 23 75 1 Sq f l Roll 20.27 Reinhorn, at left, and the hospital commission made the *f» “ V e • .1 -c "» j ti t •'» • proper judgement in approving EAST HARTFORD (UPI) - United spare parts for its engines. The East incumbent William Diana (photo to this year’s budgets given the Technologies Corp. President Robert Hartford firm supplied the military U m U T I I K Commercial dump fee powers it has under the current J.