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Lam Research buys Novellus in $3.3bn deal

...Semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research has agreed to acquire rival Novellus Systems in... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Steven Musil

US clears way for semiconductor merger

...California-based Silicon Valley Group (SVG). The deal will create the largest semiconductor equipment provider. The two companies are among the largest makers of the... Read more

3 May, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Concern over semiconductor slowdown

...to point to a slowdown in worldwide semiconductor demand. Industry trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) said the book-to-bill ratio for... Read more

26 October, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Chip equipment orders rise again

Semiconductor equipment orders outpaced shipments again in April, another sign that the chip... Read more

19 May, 2002 by John G.Spooner

The Day Ahead: Applied Materials sees big profits in 2Q

Applied Materials shareholders should be on a high today after the semiconductor equipment company beat estimates in the first quarter, issued a stock split... Read more

16 February, 2000 by Larry Dignan

IBM bets on CIGS with solar-cell deal

...IBM on Monday is expected to announce a deal with a Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer to make thin-film solar cells from CIGS — a combination... Read more

16 June, 2008 by Martin LaMonica

Chip-equipment orders rise slightly

Semiconductor equipment orders rose in February, after getting off to a slow start... Read more

21 March, 2002 by John G.Spooner

Semi equipment makers merge in $1.6bn deal

Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM Lithography Holding will acquire rival Silicon Valley Group in... Read more

2 October, 2000 by Margaret Kane

Applied Materials cuts more jobs

The semiconductor equipment manufacturer is cutting staff because of the downturn in the chip... Read more

5 November, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

OECD sees signs of tech turnaround

...quarter of 2009, with world capacity use dropping towards 50 percent, and semiconductor equipment manufacturers seeing "very rapid" falls in orders, the OECD said. "However... Read more

31 July, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Intel creates spin-off solar-cell company

...the CIGS solar cell arena by forming a partnership with a Japanese semiconductor equipment maker. It's one of four solar efforts at IBM, which... Read more

17 June, 2008 by Martin LaMonica

Chipmakers' directory to combat counterfeiting

...medical equipment, failures can have tragic results." SIA is also working with Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International on a standard to encourage the use of... Read more

25 April, 2008 by Suzanne Tindal

Spansion sees profits in flash memory's future

...the killer app," Mike Splinter, chief executive of Applied Materials, which makes semiconductor equipment, said in a recent interview. Most executives and scientists in the... Read more

29 November, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

Checking Intel into hospitals

...technology. Similarly, Intel is working with a research institute to see if semiconductor equipment can detect the onset of cancer. It also has devised baby... Read more

19 September, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

Chip gear manufacturers look forward to bumper year

...positive report from Gartner jibes with findings from other researchers that the semiconductor equipment segment is looking up. Equipment vendors had mixed results in 2003... Read more

9 April, 2004 by CNET

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