Compulsively neat and obsessed with details, Grove was an outstanding choice for the finicky semiconductor business.
Fifteen trillion won will be invested in the Semiconductor Business that consists of Memory and System LSI.
With today's close, TI's Analog semiconductor business now represents more than 50 percent of the company's revenue.
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In fact, most buildings here were constructed in the 1960s or later, after the semiconductor business really started to grow.
Sastri, 46, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. semiconductor business, got the brainstorm for the company after watching the demand for technical talent explode.
Its high technology is weak: Mitsubishi Electric, for example, recently announced that it intended to close much of its semiconductor business.
ST-Ericsson was an attempt to jump-start a semiconductor business in Europe, but it actually hasn't turned a profit since forming in 2008.
It lost money in both its semiconductor business and in heavy equipment.
Sastri, 46, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. semiconductor business, got the brainstorm for the company after watching demand for tech talent explode.
When the semiconductor business took a nose dive in 2001, he left and found work as a tech stock analyst for several financial institutions.
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But this time it's consumers and all of the digital gadgets they are buying that are pulling the semiconductor business out of its rut.
While the Semiconductor Business landed profits in the quarter, the Display Panel segment struggled, as demand for IT panels for notebooks and monitors remained slow.
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There are some segments of the semiconductor business that are hurting.
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 acknowledged problem at Hitachi lies in its semiconductor business.
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.
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.
What remains to be seen is whether Freescale's private-equity backers tough it out in the notoriously volatile semiconductor business or try to break up the company and stem their losses.
While operating profit for the Display Panel segment registered an on-year increase, the Semiconductor Business saw profits drop by 38 percent compared with the same period last year, despite outperforming the previous quarter.
The Semiconductor Business sustained profitability in the quarter, amid weak market demand, thanks to a mix of high-margin products such as servers and Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled with differentiated 20-nanometer class NAND flash chips.
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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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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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So while we have grown more cautious for the current quarter, we are still confident that the long-term drivers of semiconductor equipment business remain intact.
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Verigy , a Singapore-based company that is in the semiconductor automatic test equipment business.
He liked the prospects of Verigy , a Singapore-based company that is in the semiconductor automatic test equipment business.
The company has struggled with falling flash memory and semiconductor prices in its core business for the past year, prompting a string of poor performances in the earnings confessional.
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The semiconductor (non-solar) business has turned the corner, and he hopes this will support MEMC through the rest of the solar downturn.
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.
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