December 1, 2008 - Industry News
U.S. auto industry's health affecting Silicon Valley chip makers
The financial crisis hammering Detroit's auto industry is sending shock waves to Silicon Valley, where a number of companies make the ...
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November 19, 2008 - Industry News
Takeover bid for Atmel dropped
Microchip Technology and ON Semiconductor dropped their $2.3 billion bid to take over San Jose computer-chipmaker Atmel, after the soured ...
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November 14, 2008 - Industry News
Chip companies, amid slackening demand, lower forecasts and cut jobs
Providing further evidence that the deteriorating global economy is hitting home, some of Silicon Valley's biggest computer chip ...
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November 10, 2008 - Top Story News
Will this downturn bring pain to Silicon Valley?
Evidence is mounting that Silicon Valley, which previously had seemed relatively unscathed by the global economic crisis, is beginning to ...
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October 17, 2008 - Top Story News
AMD posts ninth straight quarterly loss
Promising to do much better under its multibillion-dollar deal with Abu Dhabi investors, Sunnyvale chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said ...
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October 16, 2008 - Industry News
Asyst ends talks with Aquest, says new orders surged
Asyst Technologies, the Fremont maker of automation equipment for the semiconductor and flat panel display industries, pulled the plug on ...
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October 13, 2008 - Industry News
Silicon Valley employees use peer pressure, creative ideas to help the environment
Yahoo and LJ Engineering & Manufacturing couldn't be more different. One is a global Internet giant; the other a small machine shop in Santa ...
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July 21, 2008 - Industry News
Agilent moves from background to role on global stage
When the world's eyes are on Beijing next month, most people won't know that a company based in Santa Clara made the scientific equipment ...
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April 18, 2008 - Industry News
Intel reshaping Vietnam with billion-dollar chip-assembly plant
Intel's billion-dollar Vietnam bet along the Hanoi Highway - its biggest semiconductor manufacturing plant ever - is rising up from the ...
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September 5, 2007 - Industry News
iPhone: first-month sales trumps competitors, but will it hit target?
The iPhone is proving a popular product so far. But whether it's going to live up to all the sales hype and expectations surrounding it is ...
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September 5, 2007 - Industry News
Appeals court revives Broadcom's suit against Qualcomm
A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived part of Broadcom Corp.'s antitrust lawsuit against rival chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. A federal ...
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August 20, 2007 - Industry News
A pivotal moment for AMD
It's been a tough year for Advanced Micro Devices. The Sunnyvale computer chip maker has lost $1.2 billion in the first two quarters ...
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August 15, 2007 - Industry News
Agilent shares plunge on weak quarter, weaker forecast
Shares of Agilent plunged after the company on Tuesday posted disappointing results for its just-completed quarter and offered a worse ...
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August 1, 2007 - Industry News
Verdant to unveil method to replace solder on boards
For decades, solder has been the glue that holds electrical components to the circuit boards installed in computers and other electronic ...
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May 8, 2007 - Technology News
A valley elder statesman turns to nanotechnology
If you're a "transmission-electron microscopy expert," Nanostellar may have a job for you. There is also an opening for a chemist; minimal ...
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March 6, 2007 - Top Story News
Global chip sales up 9.2 percent in January
Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 9.2 percent in January, boosted by better-than-expected cell phone shipments and strong sales of personal ...
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January 3, 2007 - Industry News
Consumer electronics demand fuels surge in chip sales
Global chip sales were up 9.4 percent in the first 11 months of 2006 compared with a year earlier, the San Jose-based Semiconductor Industry ...
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December 13, 2006 - Industry News
San Jose solar cell plant could open by spring
Nanosolar will open one of the world's largest solar cell manufacturing facilities in South San Jose by spring, placing the city at the forefront ...
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October 16, 2006 - Technology News
Power is key to what the next chips might do
Two years from now, don't be surprised to see surveillance cameras at airports that can spot whether you're smiling or nervous as you walk ...
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October 3, 2006 - Industry News
Intel: full steam ahead
Even though Intel is cutting 10 percent of its staff, the world's largest chip makers still has enormous breadth when it comes to creating new ...
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August 25, 2006 - Industry News
Battery recall casts spotlight on lithium-ion technology
Lithium-ion batteries are ideal for mobile electronics because they are lightweight, extremely energy-dense, and have a unique chemistry ...
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August 21, 2006 - Industry News
Dell, AMD in deal for chips
For years, Advanced Micro Devices couldn't get a date with Dell. But now the Sunnyvale chip maker is beginning a long-term relationship with the ...
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June 21, 2006 - Technology News
Making new materials for tech
It's a long leap from studying abalone shells to making new materials for computer chips and brighter flat-panel displays for televisions. But ...
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