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Since the early 1990s, Samsung has led the global market in DRAM semiconductors, the memory chips that are vital to almost every digital product we use. During the current slump, as competitors like Hitachi and NEC have been backing away from the chip business, Samsung has been diving in, introducing two new lines. The company has leveraged its digital know-how to dominate the manufacturing of computer monitors and state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. This summer Samsung, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will introduce the world's first 50-in. TV with digital light-processing technology, now used...
...Already, chip-equipment and chipmaker stocks have taken wing. Shares of chip giant INTEL are up 71% since the Sept. 21 market bottom, while shares of APPLIED MATERIALS, the world's biggest maker of equipment used to manufacture chips, are up 76%--twice as much as the NASDAQ composite. Behind the surge has been a string of reports that chip inventories have been pared, and new orders are flooding in. From November through January, orders grew at an annualized rate double that of the same period a year earlier...
...Since the early 1990s, Samsung has led the global market in dram semiconductors, the memory chips that are vital to almost every digital product we use. During the current slump, as competitors like Hitachi and NEC have been backing away from the chip business, Samsung has been diving in, introducing two new lines. The company has leveraged its digital know-how to dominate the manufacturing of computer monitors and state-of-the-art flat-panel displays. This summer Samsung, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will introduce the world's first 50-in. TV with digital light-processing technology, now used...
This month, five years after dropping out of medical school, Chan received U.S. patent 6,355,420 for what he calls “a totally new way of sequencing” that uses a laser to sequentially read large stretches of DNA sitting on a plastic chip...
...will record the activity of his nervous system and stimulate the nerves to produce small movements and sensations; such an implant could eventually help a person suffering from paralysis to move parts of the body the brain can't reach. If all goes well, Warwick will put a companion chip in his wife Irena and let the two implants communicate with each other. "If I move my finger, she'll feel something," he explains. "We'll be closer than anybody's been before--nervous system to nervous system...