Thursday, April 5, 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 Sant a Claracompany (NASDAQ:AMAT) said that the companiees that supply chipmaking equipment are findin g it very difficult to merge or do "That leaves very few avenues to give other than ... companies the Reuters news service reportsSplinter said. Other problems hindering industryt consolidation are wide differences in the technologythey use, leavingf little room for anything other than a shutdownh of some companies, Splinter reportedly "The semiconductor equipment industry cannot supporf the necessary level of R&D without some amount of Reuters quoted Splinter as saying.
"Todagy there is too much too much waste inthe industry." A report on Monday indicated that global chip sales posted their second consecutive monthu of increases, up 6.4 percent from March to but remain 25 percent below sales from a year ago.

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