By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.
Another semiconductor chip company that looks quite positive from an intermediate-term perspective is Semtech Corporation ( SMTC).
The LED stands for "light-emitting diode, " a semiconductor chip, found in VCRs and radios, that glows when electrified.
The initial Ion Torrent semiconductor chip could read out 10 million DNA letters.
The LED light is a semiconductor chip that requires another chip, called an LED driver, to supply stable power to LEDs, improve electrical efficiency and regulate performance.
In consumer terms this means it will take everything you know as the Windows operating and put it inside a semiconductor chip the size of your fingernail.
In 2010, during a surge in chip prices, semiconductor profits accounted for 58% of Samsung's operating profit, compared with 25% from its telecommunications business, which consists mostly of mobile-device revenue.
The company also says it will introduce a new semiconductor chip that will increase the number of base pairs its machine can read out in one two hour run to 1 billion.
The PGM uses a semiconductor chip to sequencing DNA, a technology that Ion Torrent founder Jonathan Rothberg says will allow his machine to increase in speed at a rate of 10-fold every six months.
Defendants were software companies (including Symantec), programmable semiconductor firms (including Altera) and memory-chip makers (including Hynix Semiconductor).
That should reveal, among other details, which semiconductor foundry built the chip.
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It is home to the world's No. 2 and No. 3 chip-packaging and chip-testing companies, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision (SPIL) .
Gurus focused most of their selling fury on technology stocks, starting off in the chip sector by cashing out of semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials and integrated circuit maker Linear Technology.
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
Chip investors will want to keep an eye on other stocks in the sector today, as well as chip-heavy ETFs like the Semiconductor HOLDRS (SMH), which counts Texas Instruments and Altera among its top holdings, in addition to Intel (INTC), Applied Material (AMAT) and Analog Devices (ADI).
Gurus focused most of their selling fury on technology stocks, starting off in the chip sector by cashing out of semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials (nasdaq: AMAT - news - people ) and integrated circuit maker Linear Technology (nasdaq: LLTC - news - people ).
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.
It costs a few billion dollars to build a modern semiconductor wafer processing plant, and chip development costs can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Its chip makers started as job-shops for semiconductor firms elsewhere.
Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ), it seemed all but certain, would close its deal to acquire the memory chip business of beleaguered South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor .
Linaro aligns the expertise of industry-leading electronics companies to accelerate innovation among Linux developers on the most advanced semiconductor SoCs (System-on-Chip).
On the LED chip-supply side there's also Seoul Semiconductor, and there are LED semiconductor tool makers, like Germany's Aixtron and Emcore Corp.
With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
Mass production should be easy because Lilliputian's fuel-cell chip can be made using 20-year-old semiconductor manufacturing equipment prevalent throughout Asia.
In the semiconductor industry, prices are always falling as chip companies scramble to cram more semiconductors into less space, allowing them to deliver more computing power per buck.
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.
Fairchild Semiconductor shares are trading lower Thursday morning after the chip maker reported weaker-than-expected Q4 results.
Hopes had been high that the worst stretch in the chip industry's history was over, as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged 85% in March from its late-September low.
The most desperate chip maker, for instance, is South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, formerly named Hyundai Electronics Industries.
Shares of Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, the world's largest and third-largest chip makers respectively, have helped to buoy Korea's stockmarket.
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