Take a look at Motorola, National Semiconductor, TSMC, Applied Materials, Williams Communications and others in chips and telecom.
In chips, National Semiconductor (68, NSM) is up 800% from its low a year ago.
National Semiconductor said it would cut 1, 100 jobs, or 10% of its workforce.
Everyone from Intel to National Semiconductor to Applied Materials has announced weaker earnings, soft sales and layoffs.
My last column recommended such decently priced tech stocks as Computer Associates, Apple, Nextel, National Semiconductor and Microsoft.
The watches contain chips made by National Semiconductor (nyse: NSM - news - people ).
National Semiconductor originally introduced the WebPad wireless tablet concept at the Comdex Fall show in Las Vegas in 1998.
Swanson had made a bold move by walking away from National Semiconductor, in 1981, to focus on analog technology.
In April, TI announced an agreement to acquire analog specialist National Semiconductor.
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Our analog stars are National Semiconductor, Anadigics, Synaptics, and power interface innovator Power-One.
In chips, National Semiconductor (68, NSM) is up 800% from its year-earlier low.
National Semiconductor recruited him and gave him a number of jobs over the next 20 years, including head of logic chips and of quality control.
National Semiconductor (NSM) shares are trading lower this morning after Citigroup analyst Terence Whalen reduced his rating on the stock to Sell from Hold.
Gil Amelio, who cut costs and ground his way to profitability at National Semiconductor (nyse: NSM - news - people ), stumbled too.
Conway started with National Semiconductor then cofounded Altos Computer Systems.
The company was the first to manufacture integrated circuits, which made millions for Sherman Fairchild and became the breeding ground for companies ranging from National Semiconductor to Sequoia Capital.
The reason I had been there in the first place is that I was moderating a panel at a conference held by National Semiconductor, and the company had paid for my room.
At National Semiconductor's stand at CeBIT, a dozen or so WebPad vendors were displaying products based around the chip maker's integrated Geode processors and running operating systems ranging from Linux and QNX to Windows CE.
He had spent a career figuring out how to deposit chemicals very carefully on substrates, first at Los Alamos National Laboratory and later at the semiconductor machinery companies Novellus and KLA-Tencor.
As for Mr. Laia he spent 11 years at Sandia National Labs, and a number of years in semiconductor capital equipment companies including Novellus and KLA-Tencor.
Whether there are obvious bidders for any of the other companies is far from clear at this point, but the TI bid for National raises the possibility of some long overdue consolidation in the semiconductor sector.
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The semiconductor industry was hit with a double whammy on Monday as the National Bureau of Economic Research said the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007 and an industry trade group said it's anticipating weak chip sales into the next year.
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