It sells 100 of the 130 molecules used in making semiconductor chips and liquid-crystal displays.
Magma develops software called electronic design automation (EDA), critical to the design of new semiconductor chips.
It is the manufacturing leader in small line widths giving its semiconductor chips a huge cost advantage.
X-ray detectors for identifying impurities in semiconductor chips (among other things) would be interested in such a device.
They're made possible by semiconductor chips that can handle megawatts of power, rather than the microwatts that move the bits through a laptop.
Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.
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Goeken's PolyBrite International of Naperville, Ill. looks to leapfrog the little fluorescents with energy-saving bulbs that rely on light-emitting diodes, which are glowing semiconductor chips.
Texas Instruments, and other big manufacturers of semiconductor chips.
Despite a decrease in sales of semiconductor chips and TVs due to seasonal factors, an increase in profitability in display panels and mobile phones pushed up quarterly operating profit margins by 1.7 percentage points to 12.9 percent.
With its 95% share of the world's gallium arsenide semiconductor market, its chips steer Tomahawk missiles.
McGinn had the semiconductor group dump commodity chips in favor of digital signal processors.
Traditional cameras use either charge-coupled devices (CCDs) or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips, which capture images on a grid of millions of pixels.
Given recent signs of weak PC sales at both Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the market is feeling ultra-sensitive at the moment to any evidence of slowing demand for chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
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Initially, one might think of semiconductor companies that build the chips used in Apple products.
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In chips, National Semiconductor (68, NSM) is up 800% from its low a year ago.
In chips, National Semiconductor (68, NSM) is up 800% from its year-earlier low.
One can envision these new players in the industry will assume leadership in specific roles within the value chain: Intel-like semiconductor companies building the LED chips, and equivalents of a PC motherboard manufacturer like ASUS packaging the chips into devices that will be used in a variety of end-use lighting applications.
Chou can use his Nano-Imprint Lithography technique for semiconductor markets to make designs and chips.
The watches contain chips made by National Semiconductor (nyse: NSM - news - people ).
On Tuesday, MIPS announced it will show off a pair of smart phones and tablets based on its processor architecture based on systems-on-chips from MIPS licensees Actions Semiconductor and Ingenic Semiconductor.
There has been growing speculation that Intel might leverage its expertise in semiconductor manufacturing with an aggressive move into the foundry business, in effect taking on Taiwan Semiconductor and others in the business of producing chips for others.
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While semiconductor makers were coming out with ever more powerful chips, making an inexpensive desktop videoconferencing system inevitable, Austin, Tex.
The company sells up to a third of its chips at a 20% discount to Japanese semiconductor maker Hitachi.
Much less likely: the possibility that Qualcomm will buy a semiconductor factory, or fab, and begin building its own chips.
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It relies on semiconductor foundries like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. ( TSM) to make the chips, so it avoids the capital-intensive risk of building its own foundries.
In a similar cost-cutting move, in January AMD announced that it would jointly develop semiconductor manufacturing technologies for 65-nanometer and 45-nanometer chips with IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
Take a look at Motorola, National Semiconductor, TSMC, Applied Materials, Williams Communications and others in chips and telecom.
With semiconductor customers having returned to financial health and looking to design new chips that drive future growth, the environment for EDA purchases has improved.
In the semiconductor industry, identity has an importance that transcends the value of silicon chips.
He means that arm doesn't risk a lot of capital to fabricate chips, preferring instead to license its microprocessor architecture to 35 semiconductor partners.
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