The industries of both countries face higher costs for imported chip-making equipment, which comes mostly from Japan and represents the lion's share of a chip maker's costs.
Since 2000, profits have doubled for many blue-chip stocks while their share prices remain unchanged or only up marginally.
The chip maker has lost market share in recent months and is facing competition from new rivals, such as Rise (see chart).
At first, Opteron helped AMD inch up its share of the server chip market from 4.1% in early 2003 to 6.9% 15 months later.
Intel has succeeded in taking a share of the NAND chip market, but faces competition from market leaders in the sector including Samsung and Toshiba.
Those worries are overblown, Warne believes, since Intel has a big share of the overall chip market and a history of getting into areas that are growing, either organically or through acquisition.
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The company got a jump on graphics chip rivals over the summer with a new series of graphics processors that have won strong reviews and grabbed market share from Nvidia, one of the chip industry's toughest competitors.
Broadcom shares surged more than 8% in after-hours trading Monday after the communications chip designer posted second quarter earnings per share 9 cents above analyst expectations.
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Every February the best and brightest researchers of the semiconductor industry converge on San Francisco to share their new developments in chip technology at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
The firm also wants a bigger share of the profitable graphics-chip business.
Fulford-Jones narrated of Nikki, a woman who volunteered to share her location data via the GPS chip in her mobile phone.
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Nvidia has grabbed share here lately, according to data from chip tracker Mercury Research.
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First, scrappy chip maker AMD grabbed a huge chunk of Intel's market share in the lucrative server processor business.
Subtract a one-time charge related to its acquisition of graphics chip specialist ATI, and AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share during its March quarter, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share--even after AMD had guided estimates lower not once but twice over the preceding quarter.
Unlike the iPhone, the Z10 will allow you to expand storage with a microSD card, and it sports a chip letting the phone act as a credit card at some payment terminals and share data wirelessly when tapped against some other phones.
Blue chip companies, however, set sustainable dividend policies that will continue to hold up their share prices.
In practically every major market WP8 has started to chip away at its competitors, growing from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent share in the UK in just one month.
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It was an active day in Apple world on Tuesday, with analyst upgrades, market share reports, and a tear down of the new CDMA iPhone that rattled the chip world.
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"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.
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