The S.& P. technology sector was also higher, in part because of a forecast by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company of stronger global sales of computer chips.
Intel, the world's leading semiconductor company, said after the close of the market on Thursday that global demand for computer chips was surging, prompting the company to raise its sales forecast for the fourth quarter by almost 9percentt.
Economists said of particular concern was a drop in the index for big manufacturers of electrical machinery, whose profits have bulged from the global high-technology boom but who face uncertainty as American computer chip companies sound warnings on profits.
Mr. Rogers, who is also chairman of SunPower, says the global market for new energy sources will ultimately be larger than the computer chip market.
The market research firm International Data Corporation says Intel had 81.9percentt of the global market for personal computer chips in December, compared with 17.7percentt for A.M.D. The commission can fine companies up to 10percentt of their global worldwide sales for antitrust abuses.
Books consumable by implanting a computer chip?
Movement is controlled by a computer chip in the prosthesis.
It's like the forty-six-cent computer chip.
"One of them is the power of the computer chip.
"It's this little computer chip," he explains.
