Sun, SGI, HP, Dell... The dot com boom. DEC, Cray, Sperry Rand (univac)... the mainframe age Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild... the semiconductor era. The

Sun, SGI, HP, Dell... The dot com boom. DEC, Cray, Sperry Rand (univac)... the mainframe age Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild... the semiconductor era. The hardware boom and bust cycle has been going on as long as the valley existed. Its almost like we have done this sort of cycle before!