Two of Lims partners, Prism Solutions and Business Objects, are hot players in the data warehousing business.

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Since a lot of Lims work there involved developing and manufacturing new semiconductors, he scoured U.S. startups for the latest technology.

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To motivate Lims employees to move its products, I-Cube, a small supplier of chips used in data routers based in Campbell, Calif.

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Lims enthusiasm won him exclusive Korean distribution rights for Alteras product line.

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Household names these are not, but unlike Koreas struggling makers of me-too products such as cars and memory chips, Lims firm sticks to things others cant easily copy.

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Twenty of Lims 75 employees hold engineering graduate degrees.

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Lims engineers spent nine months working with Korea Telecom and Ascend to get the U.S. firms Internet switches to work with Koreas telephone protocols, which are rather unlike the ones found in North America.

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