Infineon Technologies, Motorola and Agere Systems said yesterday that they would start a venture to develop and market chips that process video, music and voice information for computers and wireless devices.
So from inside, a single door opens either into the royal city of Kingsbury, or into a little coastal village called Porthaven, or onto the hills outside the small town of Market Chipping, where the castle roams around frightening people.
Richard Whittington, an analyst with Caris & Co., said in a report last week that the new technology had the potential to help Intel win back some major ground in its biggest market, chips for desktop computers.
Every down day in the market chips away a little more of Swiss Re's capital base.
Others, like Paulson & Company, are in the midst of their worst year ever as a combination of bad bets and bad markets chip away at their assets.
But that device had to be driven by light from an off-chip laser source, making it less practical for cheap mass-market chip applications.
Yet she acknowledged that François Frères markets chips through its Hungarian and North American subsidiaries.
It's no secret that today's market hates chip stocks.
We were initially surprised that the cultivated tetraploid germplasm differentiated into two groups based on market class (chip processing versus all other market classes), rather than one group (containing all market classes) or six groups (one for each market class).
Industry giants have joined the market, for chips require dips.
