In a most Silicon Valley touch, Google started a public policy blog, where its employees tried to stake out the high moral ground.

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Yet Wall Street and Silicon Valley seem out of touch with tech's new and bleaker reality.

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From glass suppliers like Corning (GLW) to touch capacitive solutions from Synaptics (SYNA) and Silicon Labs (SLAB) and RF solution and baseband companies, like Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), RF Micro Devices (RFMD), TriQuint Semiconductor (TQNT), Qualcomm (QCOM) and Broadcom (BRCM) among others.

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