She spent a decade launching startups that designed analog chips and sold them both.

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U.S. and Asian demand, he says, was broad-based, with particularly solid growth for analog chips, embedded controllers and programmable logic devices.

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The facility makes analog chips, which are used for a variety of applications, as well as parts used in digital projectors.

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It said it has 80, 000 customers for its analog chips.

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Elsewhere in semiconductors, Texas Instruments had much of its capacity to make analog chips knocked out with its Miho fab going down until May and full production not likely to resume until July.

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Kicking things off this morning: Volterra Semiconductor (VLTR), which sells high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management chips.

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It also produces custom analog and logic products, as well as chips used to manage power in portable devices like handheld electronics and power tools.

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Astounding advances have arrived ever since the analog innards of wireless gadgets gave way to digital-signal processing chips.

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