Not in the semiconductor industry where brutal price cuts, la Moore's law, are the norm.
Verigy , a Singapore-based company that is in the semiconductor automatic test equipment business.
The proposed deal would combined two leading players in the semiconductor test equipment sector.
And as everywhere else in the semiconductor industry, performance doubles and redoubles, and prices keep falling.
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On the other hand, Xilinx is an example of strength in the semiconductor sector.
"I'm not about to sell my stock in the semiconductor manufacturers on this, " he says.
In the semiconductor industry, identity has an importance that transcends the value of silicon chips.
Fifteen trillion won will be invested in the Semiconductor Business that consists of Memory and System LSI.
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Weakness in the global economy has led to lower consumer spending and slower growth in the semiconductor market.
Elsewhere in the semiconductor industry at the market's close, shares of STMicroelectronics N.
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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He liked the prospects of Verigy , a Singapore-based company that is in the semiconductor automatic test equipment business.
Their clients are mostly in the semiconductor field and include Xilinx and Broadcom in the U.S. and Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore.
The news follows some ominous comments on the near-term outlook from several players in the semiconductor equipment business, including Applied Materials.
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In 2011 Intel and Micron introduced 20 nm flash memory line widths (the width of the minimum features in the semiconductor devices).
Shares of electronics companies have been leading the way down, prompted by fears of a downturn in the semiconductor cycle, depressing the currency.
Having earned a degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University (1984), he worked in the semiconductor industry for companies like IBM and Cirrus.
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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.
This deal also directly contradicts the objectives of SEMATECH, the semiconductor manufacturing technology consortium created to enhance and strengthen U.S. companies involved in the semiconductor industry.
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.
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.
The company's stock is languishing in part because Wall Street mistakenly lumps the company in with others in the soft semiconductor industry and in the wireless infrastructure business.
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.
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