Whether the technology is flat-panel displays or semiconductors or software, somehow the Pentagon never seems to view the loss of domestic technology industries as dangerous.
Louis develops uniform microscopic particles to produce high-performance materials, enhancing, say, conduction in semiconductors or the storage capacity of tapes and disks.
Generally, MEMS and MEMS-based products don't contend with the same competitive pressures as semiconductors or displays, but as Texas Instruments demonstrates, they aren't immune to it, either.
Anything that can be made colloidal (for example polymers, semiconductors or even metals) could, Dr Lewis reckons, be deposited with sufficient precision to be incorporated into a composite.
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Samsung wants to reduce its reliance on commodity semiconductors, or DRAMs, whose profits vary wildly depending on the ups and downs of the product cycle.
Whether they involve high-tech products such as semiconductors, or unfamiliar services such as healthcare IT, industries often need years to win over their first customers, prove their worth, and build the capabilities required to penetrate the broader market.
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Even two decades after the Apollo moon mission, all the energies of hardware manufacturing firms were focused on semiconductors (like DRAMs or CPUs), color televisions, cars, Walkmans, CDs, VHS recorders, and a new consumer item called the personal computer.
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Solar panels that heat pools or power handheld calculators rely on silicon semiconductors to turn light into electrons.
It used to be a law of semiconductors that you could have one or the other but not both.
Thanks to such mainstays as power plants and semiconductors, Toshiba's turnover more or less stayed the same.
So owning a name like that has advantages in how you build semiconductors, but also advantages in the business model or the economics of this roll-out in adoption of wireless.
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And they will do quite well for at least another decade or two, living off mainstream industries such as autos, consumer electronics, semiconductors and other capital goods as they make a transition to a more investor and consumer-friendly society.
Back in 2005, OmniVision, which designs image sensors--silicon semiconductors that turn photons into electrons so that they can be processed, stored or displayed--made about 75% of revenues from selling its camera chips to developers of mobile phones.
Today's long-haul optics use photons, or light, to carry information at about 1% of what it would cost with electronic circuits and semiconductors.
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