This thesis: an inventory correction in the chip industry is coming to an end.
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SEIPI, the Philippines' electronics-industry association, the country retains a critical mass in the chip-making business.
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Challenges create opportunities in the chip industry, which is why the French silicon maker Soitec is flourishing.
As the internal components came to light, the markets automatically picked winners and losers in the chip world.
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The signs of weak business conditions in the chip sector continue to mount.
Stocks in the chip-making sector recovered slightly from the panic earlier in the week over their closed plants in Japan.
The tag then broadcasts data in the chip back to the reader.
When light strikes a CCD, it excites the electrons in the chip, creating a grid of charged elements or pixels (for picture elements).
Six years later, the FTC extracted meaningful but modest concessions from Intel relating to its behavior in the chip market, which Intel dominates.
In yet another sign of weak demand in the chip industry, Texas Instruments this afternoon issued weaker-than-expected guidance for the fourth quarter.
Covello writes that he sees the most downside risk in the chip sector for Xilinx (XLNX), Micron (MU) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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The idea is to embed a sliver of Java software in the chip brains of devices such as printers, digital cameras, mobile telephones and television set-top boxes.
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.
Most of them use the data to trigger electrodes in the chip to stimulate pixels of light on the retina, which are then processed normally by the brain as images.
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.
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.
Looking into the second quarter, Samsung expects to improve profitability in the chip business with a recovery in PC DRAM price and by expanding its new product category with mobile application processors based on 32 nanometer-class process technology.
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 ).
By 2003 Illumina scientist Kevin Gunderson invented a chemical process that allowed Illumina to get more-accurate results, even as it packed more DNA on a chip. (Instead of the lithography that Affymetrix uses, Illumina affixes DNA to tiny glass beads packed in the chip.) "I've been in the analytical sciences for 30 years, and I've never seen anything this accurate, " says John W. Hooper, chief executive of Quebec gene-finding firm Genizon, an Illumina customer.
The secret is in the imaging chip that records the light coming through the lens.
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After tethering the first two proteins in the pathway to the chip, the researchers found that both did well in breaking down glucose and handing the end-product to the next protein.
It also offers the ability to support a chip-on-flex configuration, in which the chip is directly mounted and electronically connected to a flexible circuit, eliminating the need for a controller.
Mr Seo said that he expected Samsung's earnings to hit the 10tn won mark in the April to June quarter, boosted by GalaxyS4 sales as well as improving conditions in the memory chip market.
Once the motor was in place and the robot chip was programmed, the mounted bird was put in the wild along with a discreet sound system playing swamp sparrow calls to attract others.
Despite some bumps in the road (notably some lean years in the mid-1980s and the Pentium chip bug in 1994), Moore and Noyce have never looked back.
That would stop a reduction in capacity, ironically guaranteeing the fall in chip prices that forced Hynix to consider the merger in the first place.
His death comes during a tough time for companies in the memory chip industry.
"This is like the 1970s in the computer chip business, " says Splinter, flashing a 200-watt smile.
Nvidia competes with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel in the graphics chip business.
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