The other four tech categories that saw the most patents filed include "transmission of digital information, such as telegraphic communication"; semiconductors; wireless communications and pictorial communications (such as TV but also video and photo apps would be included).
He left that job in 2000, intending to research communication within semiconductor circuits.
The Company's major products include double-sided PCBs and multilayer PCBs, which are applied in the manufacture of personal computers (PCs), computer peripheral products, computer terminals, facsimiles, video recorder and players, household electrical appliances, communication devices, semiconductor testing equipment and industrial automation controlling equipment, among others.
Sector To Watch: Communication-Related Semiconductors.
Hit especially hard were communication equipment manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing and control instrument manufacturing.
The development of state-of-the-art wireless communication transceivers in semiconductor technology is a challenging process due to complexity and stringent requirements of modern communication standards such as IEEE 802.11n.
The Mitel Corporation, a Canadian semiconductor and communication system developer, said yesterday that it would pay more than $200 million for the network chip developer Vertex Networks Inc.
Fujitsu, one of Japan's leading makers of personal computers, semiconductors and communication equipment, joins NEC, Matsushita Electric and other Japanese electronics manufacturers that have announced sweeping cutbacks.
[C2.] Fujitsu to Cut 10% of Employees Fujitsu, one of Japan's leading makers of personal computers, semiconductors and communication equipment, said that it would eliminate 16,400 jobs, or 10percentt of its work force, as it struggles with the slump in technology spending.
But the gains were biggest for communication equipment, computer software and semiconductor stocks; on average, the prices of these shares were at least 48percentt higher a year later.
