Friday, May 27, 2011

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 tripto Tokyo, the head of the Santaa Clara company (NASDAQ:AMAT) said that the companiesx that supply chipmaking equipment are finding it very difficultr to merge or do "That leaves very few avenuees to give consolidation, other than ... companies the Reuters news service reportsSplinter said. Othef problems hindering industry consolidation are wide differences in the technologythey use, leavingh little room for anything other than a shutdowbn of some companies, Splinter reportedly "The semiconductor equipment industry cannot suppor the necessary level of R&D without some amount of Reuters quoted Splinter as saying.
"Today there is too much too much waste inthe industry." A report on Monday indicated that global chip sales postedd their second consecutive month of increases, up 6.4 percentg from March to April, but remain 25 percentr below sales from a year ago.

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