"Dynex came through last year the single biggest contraction in semiconductor history, " says chief executive Michael LeGoff.
X-ray detectors for identifying impurities in semiconductor chips (among other things) would be interested in such a device.
Mulpuri brings with him nine years of experience working at Novellus Systems, which makes equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Votes are stored in duplicate, in a removable card locked inside the voting machine and in built-in semiconductor memory.
The company spends heavily on research and development, and it has produced breakthroughs in semiconductor, screen and computer-memory technology.
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Their clients are mostly in the semiconductor field and include Xilinx and Broadcom in the U.S. and Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore.
While demand is certainly a factor in semiconductor forecasting, its importance pales in comparison with the impact of capacity gluts and shortages.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced the industry's smallest 4G LTE-Advanced modem.
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Half of his current tech holdings are invested in semiconductor and semiconductor-equipment stocks, a bet on a cyclical turn in that portion of the industry.
As for Mr. Laia he spent 11 years at Sandia National Labs, and a number of years in semiconductor capital equipment companies including Novellus and KLA-Tencor.
Memories are the most volatile part of semiconductors, so improvements in memories are important to driving overall semiconductor growth, along with growth in semiconductor capital equipment.
But the Department of Energy predicts that steady improvements in semiconductor manufacturing will bring the price of white LEDs below that of compact fluorescents in five years.
In terms of business models, ARM and Intel couldn't be more different. intel (INTC, 18) leverages its lead in semiconductor fabrication technology to manufacture the processors it designs.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today reported unaudited financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2012.
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This shift caused a substantial decrease in semiconductor demand in 2012, as the semiconductor content of a smartphone or a media tablet is far less than that of a PC.
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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced the world's first Ultra High Definition Television (UltraHD TV) video decoder solution on the market.
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Through a very unique concentrator design and the latest advances in semiconductor technology, we have developed a solar panel that requires two to three times less solar cell material than current solar panels.
In semiconductor test: LTX-Credence, Form Factor.
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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced two new Near Field Communication (NFC) solutions to be showcased at the upcoming 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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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Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello this morning cut his rating on Applied Materials to Sell from Neutral, while reducing his stance on Lam Research to Neutral from Buy, asserting that a recent rally in semiconductor equipment shares has created significant downside risk for the group.
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.
The company said it will cut its global workforce by about 20%, or 1, 300 jobs worldwide. 41% of the jobs are in the semiconductor materials segment and 47% are in the solar materials segment.
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Capital expenditure in the first quarter was 7.8 trillion won, with 5.8 trillion won invested in the Semiconductor Business and 1.3 trillion won in the Display Panel segment.
Capital expenditure in the first six months was 14 trillion won, with 9.7 trillion won invested in the Semiconductor Business and 2.6 trillion won in the Display Panel segment.
Its market cap is now lower than that of Qualcomm, which accounted for 3.3% share in the global semiconductor market in 2011.
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Revenue growth in the semiconductor industry is expected to accelerate from a flat year in 1998 to 26% by 2001, says InStat, market research firm in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Revenue growth in the semiconductor industry is expected to accelerate from a flat year in 1998 to 26% by 2001, says In-Stat, a market research firm in Scottsdale, Ariz.
TSMC's revenue growth will, sooner or later, lead to higher costs as well, because in the semiconductor business sales, raw materials and capital equipment are all priced in dollars.
In the semiconductor equipment business, the company is seeing a greater-than-seasonal decline in demand, hurt by ongoing macro weakness.
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