October 9, 2008 - Industry News
Tech Earnings Loom
Glance at the earnings estimates for technology's biggest companies at the end of the day Friday and you'd think the economy is booming. ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Sunny Day For Solar Start-Up
Solar power company Solyndra, one of many fledgling "clean energy" firms trying to kick-start operations as the nation's economy swoons, said ...
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September 9, 2008 - Industry News
Why Apple Doesn't Need The iPod
Apple has summoned the press for an announcement Tuesday morning, and, as usual, it's keeping the details secret. But Chief Executive Steve Jobs ...
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September 5, 2008 - Top Story News
Pentagon Worries About Chinese Chips
At a conference in Washington, D.C., this week, a Department of Defense official sounded a startling alarm. "The defense community is ...
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September 5, 2008 - Industry News
LDK Solar signs $32M contract with GT Solar
LDK Solar Co. said Thursday it has inked a $32 million contract with GT Solar International Inc. for polysilicon CVD reactors to install ...
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August 14, 2008 - Industry News
Applied Materials up on strong 4Q order outlook
Shares of Applied Materials Inc. ticked higher Wednesday after the semiconductor equipment company's second-quarter results met Wall ...
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August 4, 2008 - Industry News
KLA-Tencor shares sink on weak 1Q outlook
Shares of KLA-Tencor Corp. fell Friday, a day after the microchip testing equipment maker issued guidance short of Wall Street's view for its ...
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August 4, 2008 - Industry News
Cypress Semi to buy Simtek for $46 million
Chip maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said it agreed to buy Simtek Corp. for $2.60 per share, or about $46 million in cash. The price includes ...
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July 25, 2008 - Industry News
MEMC Electronic Materials shares hit new low
Shares of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. sank to a new low Thursday, after the silicon wafer maker's second-quarter results missed Wall ...
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July 24, 2008 - Industry News
STMicro Chips Away At Rivals
Franco-Italian semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics won over investors on Wednesday, after a solid second-quarter performance helped it grab ...
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July 15, 2008 - Industry News
Novellus Systems posts $2.4M loss for 2nd quarter
A sharp drop in sales and a series of charges pushed chip equipment maker Novellus Systems Inc. to a loss for the second quarter. The San Jose ...
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July 14, 2008 - Industry News
Analog Rising
A year ago, I would not have recommended shares of Norwood, Mass.-based Analog Devices. The company was struggling. From 2004 to 2007 ...
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July 14, 2008 - Industry News
Amkor Tech shares plunge on 2Q sales outlook cut
Shares of Amkor Technology Inc. fell sharply Friday after the chip packaging and testing services company reduced its second-quarter ...
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July 10, 2008 - Industry News
The Economics Of Solar Power
A new era for solar power is approaching. Long derided as uneconomical, it is gaining ground as technologies improve and the cost of ...
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July 10, 2008 - Industry News
Ceradyne Packs On SemEquip
Technical ceramic product manufacturer Ceradyne announced it would acquire privately held SemEquip, a company that develops materials ...
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July 1, 2008 - Top Story News
SIA: Semiconductor sales up 7.5 percent in May
Worldwide chip sales rose 7.5 percent in May to $21.8 billion compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the Semiconductor ...
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June 23, 2008 - Industry News
How Chip Toolmakers Can Survive
In high tech, hostile takeovers were once considered rare. These days, it's common place. Microsoft tried to acquire Yahoo! in a melodrama ...
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June 18, 2008 - Industry News
Moore's Law Economic Meltdown
Moore's Law has been responsible for ever-cheaper processing and has driven a boom in global productivity over the last 40 years ...
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June 9, 2008 - Industry News
Applied Materials Wants The Cream
Applied Materials is hoping that Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM International may be so down on its luck that it is willing to sell of ...
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May 27, 2008 - Industry News
Tessera's Triumphant Patent Protection
Tessera's self-described "battled-tested" patents claimed another victory. Micro Electronics was the first of 13 companies implicated in ...
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May 21, 2008 - Industry News
KLA-Tencor buys majority of ICOS in tender offer
KLA-Tencor Corp. said Tuesday it bought the majority of ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV as part of a tender offer announced last month ...
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May 5, 2008 - Industry News
Icahn's Motorola Morass
What if you held a party and nobody came? What if you held a sale and nobody bid? That is exactly the situation at Motorola. About a year ...
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April 29, 2008 - Industry News
Chip stocks relatively flat as analyst advises caution
The chip sector fell Monday as Deutsche Bank advised caution in the specialist chip market because of economic uncertainty. The chip ...
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April 28, 2008 - Top Story News
Semiconductor Dynamos And Duds
Let's face it: The technology sector isn't exactly living up to the hype it received near the end of 2007. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite is ...
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April 25, 2008 - Industry News
KLA-Tencor adjusted earnings, revenue top expectations
KLA-Tencor Corp. reported fiscal third-quarter adjusted earnings of $121 million, or 67 cents a share, exceeding the mean estimate of analysts ...
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