Saturday, October 27, 2012

Applied Materials CEO sees chip gear firms dying - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Reports from comments made to reporters while on a trip to the head of the Santa Clara company said that the companies that supply chipmakingb equipment are finding it very difficult to merge ordo acquisitions. "That leaves very few avenuesx togive consolidation, othere than ... companies failing," the Reutera news service reportsSplintefr said. Other problems hindering industry consolidation are wide differencesx in the technologythey use, leaving little room for anything other than a shutdownh of some companies, Splinter reportedly said.
"Ths semiconductor equipment industry cannot support the necessart levelof R&D without some amount of consolidation," Reuter s quoted Splinter as "Today there is too much too much waste in the A report on Monday indicated that global chip sales poster their second consecutive month of up 6.4 percent from March to but remain 25 percent below sales from a year ago.

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