The supply chain is also showing significant slowdown, and semiconductor-related inventory levels are still elevated.
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Intel (INTC) is ready to spend, and semiconductor equipment companies already are reaping the benefits.
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Outside of Singapore, regional tech companies are mostly final-assembly contractors and semiconductor packaging companies.
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Drug giant Pfizer ( PFE), Clorox ( CLX), and semiconductor manufacturer NetLogic ( NETL) are also reporting.
He elaborated on his maneuverings during that time, specifically with regards to his investment in telecom and semiconductor companies.
The company makes light emitting diode products, lighting products and semiconductor products.
As we begin 2012, our focus is on operational excellence in completing our restructuring plan and profitably growing our solar and semiconductor businesses.
Chicory, still privately held, has yet to announce any deals with customers, but Derrick says he's negotiating with several big electronics and semiconductor makers.
AMDs Vantis and Lattice Semiconductor are next in size, while larger companies like Lucent Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor are beginning to grapple for market share.
Half of his current tech holdings are invested in semiconductor and semiconductor-equipment stocks, a bet on a cyclical turn in that portion of the industry.
Devinder is an experienced financial executive whose financial expertise and semiconductor experience developed during his 28 year tenure at AMD is an asset to the company.
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Shares in chipmakers Nvidia and Texas Instruments were down 3.5% and 3%, and semiconductor companies Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom were down just under 3%.
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Applied Materials' customers include Samsung Group, ASM International, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Elpida Memory, Inotera Memories, Photronics, Powerchip Semiconductor and Semiconductor Manufacturing International, according to Revere Data.
Wolfe likes FEIC stock partly because it has lagged the performance of its peers in both the nanotech tool and semiconductor capital equipment markets over the past several months.
The company has struggled with falling flash memory and semiconductor prices in its core business for the past year, prompting a string of poor performances in the earnings confessional.
In the booming economy of the mid-1990s the decidedly unsexy but important industrial gases business was crowded with players that overbuilt capacity on optimistic demand from refineries and semiconductor fabs.
Following the U.S. debt downgrade, we see more cyclical technology industries, such as semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, as more vulnerable, reflecting greater macroeconomic uncertainties and potential challenges associated with supply-chain financing.
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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It is now time to look to the middle of 2013 when the current oversupply will shift to a shortage and semiconductor vendors will turn from quarterly losses back to profitability.
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More ominously, Grove said, the software and services industries -- strong drivers of U.S. economic growth for nearly two decades -- show signs of emulating the struggles of the U.S. steel and semiconductor industries.
This is especially disappointing to investors who see the technology and semiconductor sectors as safe from the housing and credit turmoil that have hurt other sectors and caused volatility and uncertainty throughout the summer.
Germany's SGL Carbon (6, SGG) has fallen 33% since May and has yet to recover as it supplies primarily the hard-hit steel and semiconductor industries with carbon and graphite products, which include electrodes, laboratory components and furnace linings.
"We want to take the lessons learned from electronics and semiconductor industries (about pollution) and get ahead of some of these problems, " said John Smirnow, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association.
Earlier this year MIPS showed off a pair of smartphones and tablets based on processors from MIPS licensees Actions Semiconductor and Ingenic Semiconductor.
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.
Their clients are mostly in the semiconductor field and include Xilinx and Broadcom in the U.S. and Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore.
Just last month, the Defense Department reported on the critical role played by this and other semiconductor technologies in present and future weapon systems.
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