We made it our goal to study the investment opportunities in chip manufacturing and make them understandable for investors.
One troubling factor is the ongoing glut of chip manufacturing capacity.
Similarly very few people are employed in chip manufacturing.
An arcane industry statistic known as "fab utilization, " which measures how much of the world's chip manufacturing capacity is being used, had reached only 65.9% by the end of 2001, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
One Intel boss notes that Arizona is a good place to build a new chip manufacturing plant, but the technical skill available in the workforce is not yet enough to make it tempting to move Intel's design centre out of California.
It's about as far from the ordered, repeatable world of chip-manufacturing as you can get.
"Every time AMD kisses that 20% market share line that Intel drew in the sand, Intel responds with price cuts, " says chip-manufacturing expert G.
"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.
When times are good chip makers overinvest in manufacturing capacity.
Iterating the design and manufacturing planning as the chip evolves toward production allows for the optimization of both.
The manufacturing group may outshine the chip design company.
The Altera deal is the latest sign that Intel is moving ahead with a serious effort in the chip foundry business, using capacity and its manufacturing expertise to build chips for others.
Motorola has installed an entire set of manufacturing tools in its Chandler, Ariz. chip factory.
Mass production should be easy because Lilliputian's fuel-cell chip can be made using 20-year-old semiconductor manufacturing equipment prevalent throughout Asia.
The blue-chip benchmark retreated in previous sessions amid weak job-market and manufacturing data, closing at a current-year low on Monday.
Professor Kumar said variations in manufacturing, environment, and workload can conspire to make a chip suffer errors.
Both designs were delivered on time to IBM's manufacturing division, but there was a problem with the first chip run.
Rick Whittington, an analyst at research firm TechIndicators, argued that Intel's purchase is compelling because the company's advances in manufacturing technology are quickly expanding the number of transistors on a chip from hundreds of millions to billions.
Growth rates of "fabless" chip companies (that design in the U.S. and farm out manufacturing) have outdone giants such as Intel over the past ten years.
The San Diego-based communications chip vendor is shifting production of the wireless chips it sells to a new manufacturing technology that will allow it to build parts with features as small as 28 nanometers across.
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The investment will allow the base to make the latest system-on-chip designs in which various technologies are integrated onto the same circuit, helping minimise manufacturing costs.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
Intel uses its manufacturing prowess to skinny the mighty x86 designs its customers build into the world's PCs into a chip that can power a gizmo the size of Apple's iPhone.
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