This small-cap company specializes in designing, developing, and marketing semiconductor technologies to streamline home entertainment devices.

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Just last month, the Defense Department reported on the critical role played by this and other semiconductor technologies in present and future weapon systems.

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This article is by Richard S. Hill, the chairman and interim chief executive of Tessera, a designer of semiconductor miniaturization technologies.

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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 ).

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AMDs Vantis and Lattice Semiconductor are next in size, while larger companies like Lucent Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor are beginning to grapple for market share.

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Avgago Technologies and Maxim Semiconductor also do much of their manufacturing in the United States.

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Following his 49% gain on Clearwire last year, he now turns to ChipMOS Technologies , a semiconductor testing and assembly company.

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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Via Technologies Inc.

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Those companies include S kyworks Solutions (SWKS) , RF Micro Devices (RFMD) , Anadigics (ANAD) , TriQuint Semiconductor (TQNT) and Avago Technologies (AVGO) among others.

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ST-Ericsson is a world leader in developing and delivering a complete portfolio of innovative mobile platforms and cutting-edge wireless semiconductor solutions across the broad spectrum of mobile technologies.

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Mr. Massoud reportedly told the Financial Times that the hard drive contained files suggesting that Mr. Todd was working on semiconductor research involving IME and Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co.

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Wipro Technologies says its designers enabled a U.S. semiconductor firm to bring a chip for a gaming PC to market 20% faster than it could have done with a U.S. design team.

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OmniVision Technologies Inc. ( OVTI) designs, develops and markets semiconductor image-sensor devices.

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