Those companies each ship hundreds of millions of units per year, but they have loyal suppliers like Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm that were not easy to displace.
Semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments Monday reported better than expected quarterly earnings and revenues, despite sharply lower sales of the baseband processors used to connect handsets to wireless networks.
FORBES: Texas Instruments Beats EPS, Rev. Ests, Despite Baseband Sales Slump
In the case of silicon, it's galloped for 41 years, ever since Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments shrunk a transistor from three dimensions into two and etched it in silicon.
Large technology manufacturers like Seagate Technology, Texas Instruments and Lattice Semiconductor all reported supply constraints for the current quarter.
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
There are another 257, 000 jobs at nine suppliers in the U.S. working on its behalf, including Corning, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Fairchild Semiconductor and RF Micro Devices as well as the drivers at UPS and FedEx who deliver Apple products to customers.
There are another 257, 000 jobs at nine suppliers in the U.S. working on its behalf, such as Corning, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Fairchild Semiconductor and RF Micro Devices--as well as the drivers at UPS and FedEx who deliver Apple products to customers.
Recent sessions have seen Q4 profit warnings from Intel, Texas Instruments, Altera and Lattice Semiconductor.
Texas Instruments, and other big manufacturers of semiconductor chips.
Chip investors will want to keep an eye on other stocks in the sector today, as well as chip-heavy ETFs like the Semiconductor HOLDRS (SMH), which counts Texas Instruments and Altera among its top holdings, in addition to Intel (INTC), Applied Material (AMAT) and Analog Devices (ADI).
ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
Other competitors in the technology sector include: Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Xilinx (XLNX), and Texas Instruments (TXN).
Shares in chipmakers Nvidia and Texas Instruments were down 3.5% and 3%, and semiconductor companies Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom were down just under 3%.
FORBES: Semiconductor Stocks Down Further On Japan Plant Closures
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), music players like Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) or chip companies Texas Instruments (nyse: TXN - news - people ) and Freescale Semiconductor (nyse: FSL - news - people ), HP is also looking to build the business internally.
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