Lane County officials say they have long pushed for more diversification into areas like semiconductor manufacturing.
Some of the most important fallout from the shift to mobile devices from PCs involves semiconductor manufacturing.
Mulpuri brings with him nine years of experience working at Novellus Systems, which makes equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing.
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This is one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing plants in the world.
Mass production should be easy because Lilliputian's fuel-cell chip can be made using 20-year-old semiconductor manufacturing equipment prevalent throughout Asia.
Flash memory and other semiconductor manufacturing uses equipment with a lot of similarities to the equipment used to make magnetic recording components.
This deal also directly contradicts the objectives of SEMATECH, the semiconductor manufacturing technology consortium created to enhance and strengthen U.S. companies involved in the semiconductor industry.
But the Department of Energy predicts that steady improvements in semiconductor manufacturing will bring the price of white LEDs below that of compact fluorescents in five years.
Applied Materials' customers include Samsung Group, ASM International, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Elpida Memory, Inotera Memories, Photronics, Powerchip Semiconductor and Semiconductor Manufacturing International, according to Revere Data.
Given recent signs of weak PC sales at both Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the market is feeling ultra-sensitive at the moment to any evidence of slowing demand for chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
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In a similar cost-cutting move, in January AMD announced that it would jointly develop semiconductor manufacturing technologies for 65-nanometer and 45-nanometer chips with IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
Intel is in the game, and the 3D Tri-Gate transistor capability at the 22nm node puts Intel approximately three years ahead of anybody in the world of semiconductor manufacturing, in our opinion, which is unprecedented.
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Although the maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment originally guided for quarterly results between breakeven and 4 cents a share, Applied Materials said the original forecast didn't account for charges, which weren't known at the time.
"It's a really good opportunity for us as young engineers to be prepared early for such a project, " said Ahmed Madi, 26, an engineer from Abu Dhabi who is in a training program at a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Dresden.
John Santini was a summer intern in the lab of MIT bioengineering wizard Robert Langer in 1993 when Langer presented an intriguing idea: Why not use semiconductor manufacturing equipment to build tiny pharmacies that can be implanted in sick patients?
Some estimate that it is one full generation ahead of all the semiconductor competition in its manufacturing prowess, as it has been for years.
Avgago Technologies and Maxim Semiconductor also do much of their manufacturing in the United States.
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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Zerhouni compares it to Sematech, the nonprofit formed by U.S. semiconductor companies in 1986 to help them create manufacturing standards to eliminate waste and compete with Japan.
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It is the manufacturing leader in small line widths giving its semiconductor chips a huge cost advantage.
This allows you to build off of the existing multibillion-dollar investments made by the semiconductor industry, instead of having to create a new manufacturing line for every new product.
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Their experience with the manufacturing hardware used to make HDD components was transferred to making semiconductor devices, such as flash memory, or in many cases, making solar energy products.
First Solar is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of solar modules with an advanced thin film semiconductor technology, and it competes with other solar industry players like SunPower , Suntech Power and Yingli Green Energy.
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