Dr Kanatzidis's group aims to make materials with higher figures of merit than those attainable with today's semiconductors.
Japan's factories play a significant role in global production, churning out a fifth of the world's semiconductors and large shares of advanced machine tools and solar panels.
It includes the world's fastest semiconductors, lasers able to etch minuscule chip circuits and ultrasecure broadband communications systems.
C. concern that turned TRW's gallium arsenide semiconductors, designed for spy satellites, into chips for cell phones.
Right now the fund's biggest holdings are in semiconductors, which Callahan expects will soon recover.
Thanks to such mainstays as power plants and semiconductors, Toshiba's turnover more or less stayed the same.
Since semiconductors are America's third-biggest export to China, this was no small deal.
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Based in Pennsylvania, Amkor is controlled by South Korea's Kim family and is the world's largest packager and tester of semiconductors.
Several U.S. thin film companies, which use semiconductors that allow them to create ultra-thin solar panels, are in production expansion mode.
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Since a lot of Lims work there involved developing and manufacturing new semiconductors, he scoured U.S. startups for the latest technology.
Cisco's most expensive parts are custom processors and other semiconductors that it designs and commissions from chip makers.
It's true both of bouncing balls and of the semiconductors industry.
But according to a number of studies, roughly half of East Asia's exports to China are components, such as semiconductors and hard drives, for goods that are ultimately exported elsewhere.
"The ever-growing number of mobile and content capture devices using cloud services is fueling the growth of digital content, " according to John Rydning, IDC's research vice president, for hard drives and semiconductors.
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The key to the team's technique is the use of transistors made from organic semiconductors.
He and his team of 24 graduate students are the world's leaders in building "nanowires, " whiskers of semiconductors so thin you could bundle 20 million inside a strand of 2-lb.
Not surprisingly, four out of the ten companies on the list specialize in semiconductors, the industry that gave Northern California's Silicon Valley its name.
Merging magnets with semiconductors would allow a chip to combine a computer's memory and logic functions.
But hardly any details have been decided, particularly the tricky ones of how this will ease South Korea's blight of overcapacity in practically every industry, from shipbuilding to semiconductors.
Neither the California engineers nor the uncertain promise of semiconductors (then a rather exotic item) inspired Rock's colleagues, but he thought the eight seemed like smart people with a good idea.
His largest holding is AXT, a Chinese firm (with a U.S. headquarters in Fremont, Calif.) that makes compounds from which semiconductors are built.
Mr Bush's tariffs, like the Reagan-era export restraints on Japanese cars and semiconductors, came from a president who was fundamentally committed to free trade.
Following the U.S. debt downgrade, we see more cyclical technology industries, such as semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, as more vulnerable, reflecting greater macroeconomic uncertainties and potential challenges associated with supply-chain financing.
This does not square with experience at Mitsubishi Electric, the weakest of Japan's big three electrical groups, which is expecting to halve its loss on semiconductors this year compared with 1997.
Its consumer electronics and business electronics divisions, and its business making components such as screens and semiconductors, are strong and share enough features to gain from each other's presence.
Big-box retailers, particularly Lowe's (nyse: LOW - news - people), radio broadcasting, semiconductors and data-storage gorillas like EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people).
Keiser says the battery and semiconductors are 60% of that cost, suggesting good growth for Sanyo and Matsushita's joint venture with Toyota.
Keiser says the battery and semiconductors are 60% of that cost, suggesting good growth for Sanyo and Matsushita's joint venture with Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ).
What is important in Andreas's message is that he understands that once an industry peaks it almost never--the exception being semiconductors--comes back.
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