Semiconductors

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NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of semiconductor companies tumbled Monday as fears over a global credit crisis sank stocks and sent the Dow Jones industrial down more than 700 points to below 10,000 for the first time in four years. ...

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 32 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Investors slammed semiconductor stocks Thursday amid fears that demand for computer chips is drying up as the economic malaise plaguing the U.S. is spreading to the rest of the world. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 25 days ago
AP - NXP Semiconductors BV said Friday it will close or sell four plants, including one in New York state, and cut 4,500 jobs, or 14.5 percent of its global work force. ...

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 34 days ago
Research firm Gartner cautions that chip sales may not see a rebound until 2010. ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 25 days ago
NXP Semiconductors BV says it will close or sell four plants and cut 4,500 jobs. ...

Source: www.theinquirer.net --- 34 days ago
Sylvie Barak the Inquirer , Wednesday 3 September 2008. 16:22:00 Germans lead the way FANS OF ELECTRON mobility research rejoice! Boffins at Germany’s Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have come up with a brand spanking new high-vacuum semiconductor crystal generation process which purports to produce crystals five times purer than all previous known epitaxy systems.... ...

Source: blogs.ucdavis.edu --- 21 days ago
Researchers at Virginia Tech have come up with a fullerene, or “buckyball” that could be an electrical conductor or semiconductor. The molecule was characterized by X-ray crystallography in Alan Balch’s lab at UC Davis. Fullerenes are large spherical molecules made up of a cage of carbon atoms, looking rather like a soccer ball and reminiscent of [...] ...

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IBM announced the semiconductor industry's first computationally based process for production of next generation 22nm Semiconductors. ...

Source: www.aere.iastate.edu --- 4 days ago
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SAN JOSE, Calif. & EINDHOVEN, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced the availability of the new LPC2900 series ...

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Source: www.sciencedaily.com --- 27 days ago
Researchers have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based Semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend. Their recent results could enable the design of practical, large-scale manufacturing techniques for a wide range of printable, flexible electronic displays and other devices. ...

Source: prl.aps.org --- 34 days ago
Author(s): S. P. Hepplestone and G. P. Srivastava Frequency gaps and negative group velocities of hypersonic phonon modes in periodically arranged composite Semiconductors are presented. Trends and criteria for phononic gaps are discussed using a variety of atomic-level theoretical approaches. From our calculations, the possibility of achieving sem... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105502] Published Wed Sep 03, 2008 ...

Source: www.centredaily.com --- 25 days ago
NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) today announced a redesign program that will bring NXP to a healthy financial situation and position the company for future growth. The changes come in response to a challenging economic environment, a weak US dollar, and the reduction in size of the company after moving its wireless business into a joint venture with STMicroelectronics. The redesign program includes major reduction of NXP's manufacturing base, its central R&D, and support functions. This program is expected to affect approximately 4,500 people globally and will result in annualized savings of USD 550 million. The restructuring cost will result in an estimated cash out of USD 800 million. ...

Source: www.telecompaper.com --- 25 days ago
(Telecompaper) NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) plans to cut 4,500 job worldwide, which amounts to 15 percent of its staff. NXP says it needs to reorganise due to a weak dollar and a declining market for chips. Its factory in Fishkill, New York, USA will be closed ultimately in 2009. Additionally, two other factories are planned to be closed by 2010: the ICN5part of the NXP facility in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and part of the ICH fab of the Hamburg facility, Germany. NXP's fab in Caen, France will be put on the market for sale. In the event that a buyer is not found this facility could be closed as well during 2009. In The Netherlands, the number of NXP employees will be reduced with 1300 in the next few years. Apart from the closure of facilities in Nijmegen, 250 jobs will also be cut at the NXP main office and R&D department in Eindhoven. The program is expected to result in annualized savings of USD 550 million (EUR 391 million). The restructuring cost will result in an estimated cash out of USD 800 million (EUR 568 million). NXP plans to focus on its Automotive, Identification, Home, and MultiMarket businesses and will consolidate the majority of its production to two higher capability European fabs: Nijmegen and Hamburg, and to SSMC in Singapore. ...

Source: www.wirelessdesignasia.com --- 27 days ago
Ultra-mobile computing-could far outsell desktop and notebook PCs in the long-run, and is now garnering much attention from semiconductor firms, according to market research firm In-Stat. Intel is gearing .... ...