Makers of chips seek a wider audience
Part One: The embattled semiconductor industry turns its attention to the forces threatening to reshape the sector completely
Semiconductor showdown
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With the financial downturn hitting the semiconductor industry particularly hard, the major chip-making companies are fighting it out for a share of a diminished market
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Squaring up for a battle in miniature
Part Three: Mobile phones like Apple’s iPhone and netbooks are setting Intel and Arm Holdings on a collision course
Moore’s Law reaches its economic limits
Part Two: The costs and risks involved in building new fabs is driving makers of logic chips towards a ‘fabless’ model
Recession tests Taiwanese chipmakers
Part Four: Taiwan’s poor economic performance in the past half year is testing the island’s chipmakers’ resilience
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Arm expects second half chip uplift
Group expects second-quarter royalty revenues to be broadly flat before seeing ‘a good pick-up’ in second half
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