He also cut his rating on International Rectifier to Market Perform from Outperform.

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On Wednesday afternoon, shares of both Semtech and International Rectifier are losing ground after providing disappointing guidance.

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Faber has worked on intellectual property issues for the likes of International Rectifier, a semiconductor company, and Hertz rental car company.

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Berger also cut his price targets today on Atmel, Fairchild, International Rectifier, LSI, Marvell, Maxim, Nvidia, ON Semi, Silicon Labs and Texas Instruments.

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In the semiconductor sector, for example, 2003 forecasts for International Rectifier and STMicroelectronics come out the same whether you use just the best analysts or the whole lot.

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Faber has worked on intellectual property issues for the likes of International Rectifier (nyse: IRF - news - people ), a semiconductor company, and Hertz (nyse: HTZ - news - people ) rental car company.

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