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"Being a lazy b@astard, I'm gonna ask you a favor. Could you post information/links about flextronics?"

Id suggest starting with the last issue of ELECTRONIC BUSINESS. They have an interview with several of the top electronics executives, including Marks.

In addition, the publisher of Electronic Business, which is REED ELECTRONICS GROUP has a supplement called MOVERS AND SHAKERS which has an article on Marks.

I apologize that I haven't had the time to pull this stuff together into a post, but there it is.

I recall a similar article about Marks last year in another publication, but I don't recall which one, so Ill have to dig for that one.

Of course, some of the folks on this site can go way beyond me in terms of digging and posting info....some are amazing in what they can find...so maybe somebody will preempt me.

Lets all pool our resources and start getting to the bottom of whats really going on behind the scenes. (the MSM is so lame)

Thanks! This is something I have a genuine interest in.

For the record, I don't believe the MSM is particularly lame, just cautious. And this is a story that won't be reported until late in the game, for a lot of reasons. However, the best reason is, you would first have to explain what a "commodity" is and what "commodification" of a product is. And then you'd have to explain that it really doesn't matter if you have "Intel Inside" or "AMD Inside." And then you'd have to explain "contract manufacturing" etc. etc. Plus, there are really no images to go along with this type of story.

That's probably the reason the story only appeared in the trade press, because the readers come to the story with a certain amount of pre-existing knowledge.