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NEC consolidates in China
July 1, 2005
NEC shifts employees to take advantage of its new license to import and sell semiconductor products made or designed outside the country.
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China
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semiconductor
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Beijing
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license
Inkjet printers start cranking out microchips
March 13, 2007
Spray-on electronics can be mass manufactured, and a new factory in Austria is doing just that.
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silicon chip
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semiconductor
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microchip
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polymer
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factory
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Austria
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organic light-emitting diode
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researcher
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health
Semiconductors to give BMW split personality
November 20, 2006
BMW will be first car company to introduce FlexRay technology, which lets people change the way a car drives at the push of a button.
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microcontroller
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BMW
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semiconductor
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microprocessor
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sensor
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car
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Motorola Inc.
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button
Japanese companies study chipmaking partnership
December 28, 2005
Several companies are considering creating a joint chip foundry that each could use for semiconductor manufacturing.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
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semiconductor
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outsource
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Japanese company
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Sun UltraSPARC
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manufacturing
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AMD
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IBM Corp.
Gartner: Sales of chip gear to drop
April 8, 2005
Worldwide sales of chipmaking equipment will slide in the next two years--the question is, how far?
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Gartner Inc.
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semiconductor
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segment
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Chips are down, but slightly
June 1, 2005
Weaker chip sales in April will not influence the overall strong outlook for the year, industry group says.
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semiconductor
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inventory
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cell phone company
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drop
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DRAM
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cell phone
TSMC to work with Microsoft on Xbox
April 6, 2004
The software maker enlists the services of the Taiwanese chipmaker for future versions of its popular game console.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Microsoft Xbox
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agreement
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ATI Technologies
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console
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IBM Corp.
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GPU
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Microsoft Corp.
Renamed Philips Semi lands U.S. passport deal
August 31, 2006
Once a semiconductor company, always a semiconductor company--but now it's known as NXP.
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Philips Electronics N.V.
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e-passport
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passport
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U.S.
Report: High oil prices may mean lower chip sales
September 9, 2005
The effect of rising gas prices on people's ability to shell out for consumer electronics will hurt semiconductor sales, analysts say.
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iSuppli Corp.
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consumer electronics
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manufacturing
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AMD
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U.S.
Lenovo joins chip-buying superpowers
July 7, 2005
IBM PC heir Lenovo joins the top 10, just behind Toshiba, in iSuppli's latest semiconductor spending analysis.
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IBM PC
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China
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PC company
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IBM Corp.
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Toshiba
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Motorola Inc.
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Dell
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HP
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Samsung Electronics
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PC
China chipmaking to explode through '08
June 10, 2005
That's good news for makers of chip-fabrication gear, but it could also mean a glut of processors and a drop in prices.
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Semiconductor Equipment
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China
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Taiwan
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Intel
China gaining on U.S. chipmakers, CEO says
July 12, 2006
With semiconductor industry improving rapidly, country could achieve technological parity with U.S. in a few years.
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Applied Materials Inc.
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parity
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China
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U.S.
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government
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flash memory
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PC
Hynix sees semiconductor profits plummet
April 20, 2006
South Korean chipmaker attributes 31 percent drop in profits to a decline in chip prices and a strong Korean won.
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
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NAND flash
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drop
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chip company
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increase
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Samsung Electronics
IDC: Growth ahead for wireless chip sales
May 23, 2005
According to a new report, WLAN semiconductor revenue will jump to $3 billion by 2009--up from $1.2 billion last year.
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semiconductor
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WLAN
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wireless chip
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MIMO
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Broadcom Corp.
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market research company
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wireless networking
Solar-cell business poised for huge growth
October 18, 2006
Manufacturing plants to produce solar cells at a daily rate equal to the entire solar-cell production in 1980.
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Applied Materials Inc.
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plant
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cell
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glass
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TFT
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manufacturing
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ton
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LCD
India's next big business?
November 30, 2005
Possibly oil, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos. The country's deposits are twice the size of Iraq's.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.
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India
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Iraq
Silicon vs. CIGS: With solar energy, the issue is material
October 2, 2006
What should solar panels be made of? Silicon has history on its side, but the future may lie in CIGS.
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silicon
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material
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electricity
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semiconductor
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film
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CEO
Solar cell breaks efficiency record
December 6, 2006
It converts almost 41 percent of light that hits it into electricity, almost double the efficiency of current commercial cells.
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cell
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electricity
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efficiency
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sunlight
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silicon
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solar energy
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material
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Sharp Corp.
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barrier
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semiconductor
Freescale links with IBM in chip development deal
January 23, 2007
Semiconductor will participate in developing rules and technology for manufacturing 45-nanometer chips.
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
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semiconductor
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IBM Corp.
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manufacturing
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chip company
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Philips Electronics N.V.
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Motorola Inc.
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AMD
Chip designers go mobile
June 13, 2005
Synopsys, IBM and Intel tout the efficiencies of using wireless applications among engineering work groups.
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Synopsys Inc.
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Cadence Design Systems Inc.
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semiconductor
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collaboration
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IBM Corp.
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Intel
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