June 21, 2010 - Industry News
Valley focus: high-tech hardware sales, April 2010
Chip sales increase for a second straight month. Worldwide semiconductor sales rose in April to $23.6 billion, an increase of 2.2 percent from ...
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June 16, 2010 - Industry News
Manufacturing is essential for U.S. recovery in jobs
I grew up in western Pennsylvania, in a once-thriving middle-class community in the heart of the Shenango Valley. The wave of deindustrialization ...
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May 17, 2010 - Industry News
Wolverton: A look at Microsoft's new Kin phones By Troy Wolverton
Smartphones and feature phones used to be distinct from each other: One had a full-fledged operating system and the other did not; one targeted ...
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March 1, 2010 - Industry News
Interview: Moshe Gavrielov, CEO and President of Xilinx
Founded in 1984, San Jose-based Xilinx has spent the past quarter of a century touting the benefits of what are known as field programmable ...
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January 15, 2010 - Industry News
Intel profits jump
Bolstered by improved sales of its chips for netbooks and servers, Santa Clara-based Intel reported a surprisingly robust fourth-quarter ...
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January 14, 2010 - Industry News
Intel: Feds don't understand chip industry
In formal responses to antitrust lawsuits filed by federal and New York authorities, Intel claims government investigators based their allegations ...
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December 21, 2009 - Industry News
Interview: Dirk Meyer, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices
Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro Devices launched what seemed a lonely and highly uncertain legal battle in 2005 when it sued Santa Clara giant ...
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November 16, 2009 - Industry News
Silicon Valley job cuts, mergers and 'Modern Warfare'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison — who has grown a tech empire with multibillion-dollar buyouts of rivals including PeopleSoft and BEA Systems — has eyed ...
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November 2, 2009 - Industry News
Welcome to China's 'Wild West' of Capitalism
Not long ago, Tsoi Chun Bun made potato chips. Now he designs and sells millions of mobile phones a year. He is one of hundreds of young ...
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October 30, 2009 - Industry News
Cell phone chip maker MediaTek thrives during downturn
Amid the global downturn, cell phone chip maker MediaTek has enjoyed an upturn. While gloom has wrapped the Hsinchu Science Park, the ...
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October 13, 2009 - Industry News
Semiconductor Industry Association Applauds Anticounterfeiting Action
The Semiconductor Industry Association applauded the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia’s announcement of arrests and ...
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September 28, 2009 - Industry News
Hewlett-Packard - Intel dealings laid bare in European report
At the heart of the European antitrust case against Intel are a series of once-confidential memos that provide a rare glimpse into the intense and ...
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August 19, 2009 - Top Story News
Intel CEO Paul Otellini credited with putting chip maker back on track
Since becoming Intel's CEO four years ago, Paul Otellini has presided over one of the most dreadful periods in the Santa Clara chip maker's ...
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August 11, 2009 - Industry News
'Printed chips' could be boon for consumers
Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process ...
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August 10, 2009 - Industry News
'Printed chips' could be boon for consumers
Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process costing ...
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July 28, 2009 - Top Story News
Agilent to buy Varian in $1.5 billion deal
Two of Silicon Valley's biggest and most storied companies — Agilent Technologies of Santa Clara and Palo Alto-based Varian — are poised to ...
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July 24, 2009 - Industry News
Intel appeals $1.45 billion European antitrust fine
Arguing in part that its human rights were violated, Santa Clara chip maker Intel appealed the European Commission's recent decision to slap ...
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July 22, 2009 - Industry News
For chip maker AMD, its 11th quarterly loss in a row
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday reported its 11th consecutive losing quarter, prompting some analysts to wonder when the Sunnyvale chip ...
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June 22, 2009 - Industry News
High-tech hardware sales April 2009
In Chip sales up sequentially for second month in a row. Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose in April up 6.4% from the month before. It was the second ...
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May 21, 2009 - Industry News
Tessera wins key patent ruling
San Jose-based Tessera Technologies said the U.S. International Trade Commission has upheld its claim that several other companies had infringed ...
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May 13, 2009 - Industry News
Intel CEO Otellini optimistic about strength of PC market
In another sign the recession is easing its chokehold on the tech industry, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the chip business has improved ...
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May 11, 2009 - Technology News
At Stanford University, 100 years of innovation
Federal Telegraph and Telephone is founded by Stanford graduate student Cyril Ewell to commercialize arc transmitter technology developed by ...
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May 7, 2009 - Industry News
Cisco's Chambers says sales declines appear to be leveling off
Despite a big drop in sales and profit for its most recent quarter, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said Wednesday that the decline in customer ...
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May 1, 2009 - Industry News
Tech giants to be honored at computer chip's 50th birthday party
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, the National Inventors Hall of Fame will honor 16 people who helped pioneer ...
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April 13, 2009 - Industry News
SV150: Globalization hasn't insulated Silicon Valley from the downturn
It wasn't long ago that Silicon Valley's tech industry, whose operations and customers span the planet, was confident its global reach would ...
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