And in the process take on ARM (ARMH), the British chip firm that dominates mobile phones?
The company capitalized on the "fabless" trend that allowed a chip firm to concentrate on design and avoid billions of dollars of capital spending by outsourcing production to Asian factories.
The idea of a blue chip firm issuing at 1 percent, as IBM did for its three-year notes last summer, is now obsolete when inflation over the last three months exceeds 5 percent on an annualized basis.
During our conversation the manager explained he was born and raised on the large island of Madagascar (where French, English and Malagasy languages are spoken), off the southeastern coast of Africa, and later attended a Paris university before joining the U.S. chip firm.
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ) and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
Mr Torvalds himself now works for Transmeta, a chip-design firm in Silicon Valley.
"Intel has had to come to terms with the reality that the RDRAM technology has not come online fast enough, " says Kevin Krewell, an analyst at MicroDesign Resources, a chip industry research firm in Sebastopol, Calif.
In 2004 Marvell licensed chip designs and software to a firm called Alliant Networks that was designing a chip to handle both cellular and Wi-Fi signals.
"I assumed a correction was coming, but the movement was extremely violent, " said Ryo Takebe, a 28-year-old retail investor who works at a chip-related manufacturing firm.
Importantly, though, the issue transcends Goldman Sachs, with significant implications for any blue-chip financial or professional service firm.
The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.
Wipro Technologies says its designers enabled a U.S. semiconductor firm to bring a chip for a gaming PC to market 20% faster than it could have done with a U.S. design team.
Payments firm Paypal has launched a chip-and-pin machine designed to offer new sales methods to UK small businesses that have previously relied on cash or cheques.
Instead of building an even more complicated x86-compatible processor, the firm has created an entirely new chip of its own that is specifically designed to execute micro-ops quickly and efficiently.
His son William E. (Chip) Connor II would later take over the firm and move its headquarters to Hong Kong in 1985.
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It has lined up some blue chip partners, including Dow, Valero and the engineering firm Linde.
The company bought businesses such as Hugo Boss, originally a German menswear firm, and signed deals with blue-chip Italian designers such as Gianfranco Ferre.
At its heart is the firm's new quad-core Tegra 4 chip - which Mr Huang described as the fastest mobile processor on the market.
Buying a new PC is an expensive proposition, but research firm Canalys believes that Microsoft should dig deep and chip in a few dollars to help make your new PC a little bit cheaper.
He had his first chip installed in 2005 by a doctor client of his IT services firm, and has since become one of a few vocal RFID body implant evangelists, chronicling his experiences with the chip on his website and in a book, RFID Toys.
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The firm also wants a bigger share of the profitable graphics-chip business.
Whether its a traditional telecom firm like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) or Israeli chip maker Ceva, plenty of companies are benefiting from the smartphone craze.
In the six years since its founding his Manhattan firm has built out a client list full of blue-chip accounts like Kraft, Prudential, Microsoft, Unilever and Puma.
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Looking for new markets for its Xscale mobile chip, Intel confirmed today that it will team up with consumer electronics firm SonicBlue on a new type of device that will let consumers take video programs on the road.
In Tokyo, shares of Elpida Memory Inc. rallied 6.6% after the Yomiuri Shimbun said the chip maker would seek a capital tie-up with U.S. firm Micron Technology Inc.
Infosys, a technology firm, leapt in a generation from a start-up to a global blue chip, owned by institutional shareholders and measured against that most Western of yardsticks, the stock price.
However, the firm does not believe return customers at its UK stores were affected - or that chip and pin data in the UK was accessed as none is stored on the systems in Watford.
Software firm Autonomy and logistics group Exel are to drop out of the FTSE-100 following the blue-chip index's quarterly reshuffle.
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