Real paradigm shifts like semiconductor electronics or DNA-based biology are infrequent.
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Since 2006, the firm has invested in seven companies operating within the clean-tech, semiconductor and electronics sectors.
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The research firm predicted that the Ultrabook phenomenon could, by itself, bring an end to the current slowdown in both the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries.
The semiconductor and consumer electronics giant plans to raise its 49% stake in AST to 60% next year.
HP's first big customer for its product is Royal Philips Electronics' semiconductor division in the Netherlands.
This group includes at a minimum the pharmaceutical, petroleum, mining, aerospace, electronics, semiconductor, food, textile and cosmetic industries.
Among other semiconductor firms, Renesas Electronics extended losses with a 4.6% fall.
Chicory, still privately held, has yet to announce any deals with customers, but Derrick says he's negotiating with several big electronics and semiconductor makers.
"We want to take the lessons learned from electronics and semiconductor industries (about pollution) and get ahead of some of these problems, " said John Smirnow, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association.
These will come to be seen as yet another, odious "unfunded federal mandate" and few in the many affected companies (including the pharmaceutical, petroleum, mining, aerospace, electronics, semiconductor, food, textile and cosmetic industries) appreciate that they are about to be subjected to onerous and expensive data collection, reporting and inspection requirements.
The most desperate chip maker, for instance, is South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, formerly named Hyundai Electronics Industries.
Shares of Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, the world's largest and third-largest chip makers respectively, have helped to buoy Korea's stockmarket.
Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer in electronics manufacturing in the 1960s, is widely regarded as the first major Silicon Valley success story.
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Talk with Rich Beyer, the chief executive of chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor, about the consumer electronics industry, and one thing stands out: he mentions smartbooks.
Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.
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Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced LG Electronics has chosen Broadcom's 5G WiFi technology, based on the IEEE 802.11ac standard, for use in select 2013 LG digital TV models.
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On Friday August 19, Sehat Sutardja, CEO and President of Marvell Semiconductor, gave a talk where he described how he got into electronics by learning to fix radios in Indonesia and how that eventually led to his coming to school in the US where he founded a major semiconductor company.
Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, has recently broken ground to build the largest semiconductor factory in America.
Linaro aligns the expertise of industry-leading electronics companies to accelerate innovation among Linux developers on the most advanced semiconductor SoCs (System-on-Chip).
When Masuoka presented his flash memory at the annual International Electronics Developers Meeting in San Jose, California, in 1984, the American semiconductor industry saw it as a threat.
Last August, the 32 year-old semiconductor analyst got his first shot at managing a fund, taking over Fidelity's Select Electronics ( FSELX) .
According to these criteria, Vtech, an electronics maker in Hong Kong (FORBES GLOBAL, May 28), and Chartered Semiconductor, a leading semiconductor maker in Singapore, are on the endangered list (see table).
Shares of electronics companies have been leading the way down, prompted by fears of a downturn in the semiconductor cycle, depressing the currency.
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