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.
"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.
Shares of Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, the world's largest and third-largest chip makers respectively, have helped to buoy Korea's stockmarket.
Since 2006, the firm has invested in seven companies operating within the clean-tech, semiconductor and electronics sectors.
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The research firm predicted that the Ultrabook phenomenon could, by itself, bring an end to the current slowdown in both the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries.
These will come to be seen as yet another, odious "unfunded federal mandate" and few in the many affected companies (including the pharmaceutical, petroleum, mining, aerospace, electronics, semiconductor, food, textile and cosmetic industries) appreciate that they are about to be subjected to onerous and expensive data collection, reporting and inspection requirements.
The semiconductor and consumer electronics giant plans to raise its 49% stake in AST to 60% next year.
This group includes at a minimum the pharmaceutical, petroleum, mining, aerospace, electronics, semiconductor, food, textile and cosmetic industries.
Talk with Rich Beyer, the chief executive of chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor, about the consumer electronics industry, and one thing stands out: he mentions smartbooks.
Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.
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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced LG Electronics has chosen Broadcom's 5G WiFi technology, based on the IEEE 802.11ac standard, for use in select 2013 LG digital TV models.
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According to these criteria, Vtech, an electronics maker in Hong Kong (FORBES GLOBAL, May 28), and Chartered Semiconductor, a leading semiconductor maker in Singapore, are on the endangered list (see table).
On Friday August 19, Sehat Sutardja, CEO and President of Marvell Semiconductor, gave a talk where he described how he got into electronics by learning to fix radios in Indonesia and how that eventually led to his coming to school in the US where he founded a major semiconductor company.
It was 2005, and Morris Chang, at age 74, had earned his retirement: the global economy had bounced back from a postmillennial downturn, and his Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, or TSMC, was back leading a wave of change in the electronics industry.
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