On the LED chip-supply side there's also Seoul Semiconductor, and there are LED semiconductor tool makers, like Germany's Aixtron and Emcore Corp.
In fact, a new design recently launched by LED chip maker Bridgelux features spaces around the chips that its customers can use to incorporate sensors.
Equipment and software sales were strong, led by chip makers like Texas Instruments and Xerox, which gained 2% in its third quarter after a 52% decline in 2009, leaving the remaining GDP sectors to find their pace.
Rubicon Technology shares are trading sharply lower in late trading Wednesday after the provider of sapphire substrates used by LED and chip makers reported disappointing fourth quarter results - and provided even more alarming guidance for the first quarter.
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The small size of the LED light chip allows another advantage arising from the physics of optics: Engineers can employ collaterally small lenses making it possible to efficiently extract, direct and focus the lumens, achieving useful illumination with far fewer lumens--and far less energy--wasted.
The LED light is a semiconductor chip that requires another chip, called an LED driver, to supply stable power to LEDs, improve electrical efficiency and regulate performance.
Qualcomm is also the leader in cell phone chip sets, led by its high-end Snapdragon chip.
Financial and energy stocks led the blue-chip index lower yesterday.
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U.S. equity indexes finished little changed Monday, bouncing off earlier lows, as the bio-terrorism fears and chip-led tech selling that had plagued stocks most of the day eased up by the close.
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Security concerns have led many places in Europe to accept only chip-and-pin credit cards, which causes trouble for travellers with magnetic-stripe cards.
In the meantime the hosts survived exciting full-back Barry Davies' chip and chase into space and led 10-0 at the break.
The revelation led many tech journalists to speculate that the chip, called the Octa, will be at the heart of the Galaxy S IV phone.
Toshiba faces a difficult pricing environment because excess capacity led to a collapse in electronic component and memory chip prices.
Last week Texas Instruments, led by Chief Executive RichardTempletonRichard Templeton, unveiled its mobile TV chip codenamed "Hollywood, " and said it had begun shipping the single-chip DTV solution to cellular manufacturers to begin putting in phones late this year.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency.
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The LED stands for "light-emitting diode, " a semiconductor chip, found in VCRs and radios, that glows when electrified.
Ideal for viewing content from any source, the XBR-HX950 LED Internet TV includes the X-Reality PRO Engine, a two-chip digital video processor that optimizes any type of HD, SD or low-resolution Internet video.
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The Heat led by as many as 11 in the first half, only to see the Bucks steadily chip away at the lead.
The chip company then became the object of a bidding war between a consortium of investors led by Blackstone and another led by KKR and Silver Lake.
The researchers were led to this idea when they scanned the stem-cell precursors of nerve cells with a device called a gene chip.
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