Ericsson and STMicroelectronics first entered into their JV in 2009 with the aim of using their combined size to lead the market in wireless equipment chips.
But rivals Israeli chipmaker Galileo Technologies and Sunnyvale, Calif.-based MMC Networks have already made a profitable business out of offering networking-equipment chips.
Veeco makes production and measurement equipment for chip makers, data storage, telecommunications and scientific research, and since going public in 1994, it has spent more than $1 billion, mostly in stock, to buy 11 related companies.
Nikon rose 4.3%, to 3,050 yen ($28.09), prior to its earnings announcement, which revealed a drop in first-quarter profits owing to slower sales of stepper equipment for chip manufacturing.
In addition to domestic operators like Huawei and ZTE, foreign telecom equipment and chip makers hoping to peg their growth to the expansion of China Mobile's 4G network include Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics.
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In the decades that followed, the company became internationally famous for such products as electrical equipment, computer chips, and videocassette recorders under such brand names as Panasonic, Quasar, and National.
Agilent Technologies, which supplies testing equipment and chips to telecom makers, sees "a pause" in torrid growth.
PHY layer measurements are performed for various reasons such as functional tests done during design and development of wireless LAN WLANN) equipment and chips.
According to SEMI, a chip equipment maker trade group, the equipment shipments to Japan stood at $4.7 billion in 1998, down 31% from the $6.8 billion posted in 1997.
Herein lies the reason chip equipment stocks have lagged, namely the fear that recent equipment vibrancy is running ahead of the customers real needs.
