The company's component divisions that make semiconductor products and display panels also benefited from a rise in demand for smartphones.
The company makes light emitting diode products, lighting products and semiconductor products.
Sales of semiconductor products were down sequentially and year over year.
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In 2013, we will continue to take additional actions at our SANYO Semiconductor Products Group to reduce the break-even level and return this operating segment to profitability.
Linaro was formed to increase investment in open source, address the challenges in developing products for sophisticated consumer markets and provide the support of a broad array of semiconductor products from multiple companies.
Samsung expects to keep its frontrunner status in the global memory semiconductor industry with competitive products and differentiated cost structure.
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The company also uses advanced materials to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets.
Germany's SGL Carbon (6, SGG) has fallen 33% since May and has yet to recover as it supplies primarily the hard-hit steel and semiconductor industries with carbon and graphite products, which include electrodes, laboratory components and furnace linings.
"We are extremely pleased to extend our presence in Austin and reinforce Samsung's capacity for highly advanced logic products, " said Samsung Austin Semiconductor's president Woosung Han.
Initially, one might think of semiconductor companies that build the chips used in Apple products.
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Analogix is the market leader in providing end-to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort, including the SlimPort family of products.
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The semiconductor giant has been working with McAfee to develop joint products for the past 18 months and apparently liked the arrangement enough to make it permanent.
Infineon, the former semiconductor unit of Germany's Siemens , has made DRAM products for years.
Over the last six months, several major semiconductor memory companies made investments or announced plans to introduce magnetic memory products.
Linaro will make it easier and quicker to develop advanced products with these high profile distributions by creating software commonality across semiconductor SoCs, from multiple companies.
With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.
In an earlier post I likened the semiconductor market to airlines and shipping, two other capital-intensive markets with undifferentiated products.
Curtis writes in a research note that he remains tempered on the outlook for RF semiconductor growth, but that he nonetheless sees upside for RF Micro from both new products and market share gains.
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At National Semiconductor's stand at CeBIT, a dozen or so WebPad vendors were displaying products based around the chip maker's integrated Geode processors and running operating systems ranging from Linux and QNX to Windows CE.
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.
Manufacturers of technology products are predicting a rise in demand in upcoming quarters, particularly in the semiconductor and networking space, which has seen more orders from business IT systems already this year.
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Dave Roberts says this semiconductor maker rides on the coattails of Apple's success since it provides chips for Apple products.
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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.
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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