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Chip-equipment Orders Rise Slightly
News Several predicted in January that a chip-equipment recovery could begin in the first half of this year, thanks to increased capital spending by large chip manufacturers. Semiconductor equipment orders rose in February, after getting off to a slow...
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Chip Equipment Orders Rise Again
News Semiconductor equipment orders outpaced shipments again in April, another sign that the chip market may be on the road to recovery. Preliminary figures released late Thursday by the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International...
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
Chip Equipment Makers Feel Intel Aftershocks
News The outlook for next year is relatively bleak," said Eric Chen, a chip equipment analyst at Chase Hambrecht & Quist. This is by no means the first sign of bad news for the chip equipment sector. In August, chip-assembly equipment maker Kulicke...
[December 8, 2000, 11:21]
Chip Equipment Stocks Enjoy Intel-inspired Rally
News Despite a gloomy outlook for chip and PC sales through the first half of 2001, chip equipment stocks have quietly rallied, helping boost the Nasdaq Composite Index more than 10 percent this year. Keep in mind chip equipment sales jumped more than...
[January 19, 2001, 14:22]
Chip-equipment Sales Fell In 2001
News Makers of microchip manufacturing equipment saw worldwide sales slide almost 30 percent in 2001, according to a new study, as demand dropped and manufacturers were left with more capacity then they needed.
[April 15, 2002, 7:31]
Chips Look Chipper
News Chip equipment maker Kulicke & Soffa said Tuesday that it expects to "substantially exceed" First Call consensus estimates for its first quarter. Chip equipment makers (index) are rebounding because chip makers are seeing strong demand and...
[January 4, 2000, 14:07]
Manufacturers Continue Investing In Future
News Despite the drastic downturn in the fortunes of high-tech companies, semiconductor makers and equipment manufacturers appear to be continuing to step up development for new products, according to a leading chip designer.
[May 9, 2001, 15:26]
Orders Fall Short For Applied Materials
News Applied Materials, the chip-equipment maker, said on Friday that orders placed during its first fiscal quarter will fall short of previous expectations. Intel cut capital expenditures by $1bn for 2003, meaning it will spend less on chip equipment...
[January 31, 2003, 15:28]
Optimism In Chip Market
News Chip-making equipment provider Applied Materials said on Tuesday the semiconductor market appears to be picking up, indicating that the chip glut could be over. Mike Splinter, the chief executive of Applied Materials, said during an analysts...
[February 16, 2005, 16:25]
Intel And The Trickle-down Effect
News Chip equipment makers were hit with a double dose of bad news Thursday when Intel warned that revenues would fall short for the fourth quarter. That, analysts say, is a sign that other chipmakers are severely curtailing their spending on new chip...
[December 8, 2000, 15:46]
Motorola Chip Gets Networks Talking
News The new chip comes at a time when the markets for semiconductors and network equipment are still slow, recovering from the downturn of 2001. Motorola hopes to use the performance boost to move the new chip into high-end equipment.
[July 23, 2002, 6:27]
Intel Takes Broadband To The WiMax
News Intel predicted three years of solid development in wireless broadband on Tuesday as it showed the first samples of a chip for WiMax equipment. Combining wired Ethernet, security and other interface functions, the Rosedale processor is designed to...
[September 8, 2004, 10:00]
The Day Ahead: Chatting With Applied Materials
News Chip equipment giant Applied Materials closed out a whopper of a year and brought in fourth quarter earnings of 77 cents a share on sales of $2.92bn. But Applied Materials' long-term picture looks just fine, especially when you consider the chip...
[November 16, 2000, 11:57]
Intel Faces Delays To 0.13 Micron Move
News Concern over the delay highlights the increasing importance of chip equipment manufacturers to the continued success of the PC chip industry. Intel's upcoming move to a more advanced manufacturing process could be thrown off by the delay of a...
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
The Day Ahead: Applied Materials Sees Big Profits In 2Q
News The earnings results and stock split were expected, but the big eye-popper was Applied Materials' second quarter outlook, which should boost other chip equipment manufacturers. Applied Materials shareholders should be on a high today after the...
[February 16, 2000, 12:14]
Agere's Switch Chip Outpaces Competition
News Agere, a spinoff of Lucent Technologies, also announced a deal for China's Zhongxing Telecom Equipment (ZTE) to use the chip in its switching equipment. Called the Protocol Independent Stand-Alone Switch (PI-40SAX), the chip acts as the brains in...
[October 21, 2002, 15:35]
Direct Network Traffic With IBM Chip
News Unlike its predecessor, the PowerNP NP4GS3, the new chip is intended for lower-cost networking equipment such as routers in small-office networks. By incorporating the new chip into low-cost network equipment, IBM said, manufacturers will be able...
[March 22, 2002, 17:24]
Chipmakers On Fast Track To 10GHz
News Known as the EUV engineering test stand, the device is the first piece of test equipment for what is expected to be a new line of chip-manufacturing machines capable of producing processors running at 10GHz and faster.
[January 16, 2001, 14:45]
Startup Aims To Inject Zing Into Net Telephony
News A startup run by a former senior executive of chip designer ARM is launching Monday a new high-capacity processor for Internet telephony equipment and handheld devices. BOPS is attempting to break into the $7bn-a-year market for digital signal...
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
Chipmakers' Capital Spend Signposts Recovery
News The largest part of these budgets goes toward purchasing chip manufacturing equipment. But the overall decline in capital spending put a squeeze on companies that produce chip manufacturing equipment.
[July 11, 2003, 7:35]
