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SAN FRANCISCO -- Nvidia, the leading US graphics chipmaker, jumped 16.6 per cent by the close of trading yesterday, following preliminary first-quarter earnings that were better than expected. The company [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Nvidia, the leading US graphics chipmaker, jumped 15 per cent in midday trading yesterday, following preliminary first-quarter earnings that were better than expected. The company said it [...]

ERFURT -- Siemens, the German electronics group, yesterday defied rising gloom among some of its biggest competitors when it released markedly better-than-expected second-quarter results, with robust performances by its power [...]

Cookson, the debt-laden industrial conglomerate, yesterday sought to calm investor nerves when it suggested there were further signs that its core electronics market was emerging from its trough. The group, [...]

CHICAGO -- TELECOMMUNICATIONS US GROUP'S RESULTS BEAT FORECAST @ PROGRESS IN RESTRUCTURING EXPECTED TO CONTINUE Motorola, the US telecoms equipment and semiconductor group, yesterday posted its fifth quarterly loss, but [...]

AMSTERDAM -- Philips, Europe's biggest consumer electronics group, saw its shares jump nearly 8 per cent yesterday as it disclosed unexpected first-quarter profits. Gerard Kleisterlee, chief executive, said: 'It seems [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Texas Instruments, the leading communications chip maker, yesterday said growing demand would lead to better-than-expected sales in its current quarter, as it reported a slight loss for [...]

Best Buy/Circuit City Fourth-quarter results from the US consumer electronics giants show why the S&P 500's retail component has outperformed the main index by 11 per cent over 12 months. [...]

Surface Technology Systems, the semiconductor equipment maker, unveiled an 86 per cent rise in profits for 2001, as analysts warned the company faces a much tougher time this year. STS [...]

IQE, the manufacturer of semiconductor wafers, warned yesterday that trading was likely to get worse before there was any sign of an improvement, as customers continued to delay orders. The [...]

'Betting against technology is like betting against the future,' responds David Norwood, chief executive of Beeson Gregory stockbrokers, whenever he is asked of the wisdom of investing in technology. The [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Shares of Symbol Technology plunged 30 per cent yesterday, after the bar-code scanner company announced the sudden departure of its recently appointed chief executive and confirmed that [...]

Applied Materials is the world's largest maker of equipment that manufactures semiconductors, and its quarterly results conference today should reflect the brighter outlook for chip demand. However, massive capital expenditure [...]

Huge losses Japan's tech giants Toshiba and Fujitsu reported huge losses for the final quarter of 2000. The 10-year economic slump in Japan and the recession in the US combined [...]

CHICAGO -- Motorola, the US telecommunications equipment and semiconductor group, yesterday posted a loss in the fourth quarter as predicted, and said it expected quarterly losses in the first half [...]

Continued sluggish demand for optical equipment was underlined by Bookham Technology as the maker of optical components reported an 82 per cent fall in year-on-year fourth-quarter revenues. Giorgio Anania, chief [...]

TOKYO -- NEC, the semiconductor manufacturer, yesterday warned that pre-tax losses this year would reach Y460bn (Dollars 3.5bn), confirming the severity of the wounds inflicted on Japan's electronics sector by [...]

FRANKFURT -- Epcos, the German electronics group, warned yesterday that sluggish demand and persistently low prices for its products would weigh on results in the near future, after it barely [...]

Parthus, the Irish chip designer, has reaffirmed its plan of returning to profitability in the second half, in spite of expressing concerns about when the semiconductor industry will rebound from [...]

TOKYO -- Toshiba and Fujitsu, the Japanese chipmakers, yesterday warned that they expected to record their largest losses this year as the twin effects of a domestic recession and a [...]

ARM, the chip designer, yesterday retained its reputation as one of the few IT companies not to disappoint investors, when it reported fourth-quarter results ahead of expectations. Sir Robin Saxby, [...]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's largest 'foundry' producer of made-to-order computer chips, said sales rose 23 per cent in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three months. While the [...]

FRANKFURT -- Siemens, the German electronics and engineering conglomerate, beat forecasts with a first-quarter net profit yesterday, despite continued weakness in its ICN fixed-network unit. In a strong hint that [...]

PARIS -- STMicroelectronics, Europe's largest chipmaker, yesterday predicted lower revenues and margins in the first quarter, but said it was hopeful the market would recover. Pasquale Pistorio, chief executive of [...]

FRANKFURT -- Infineon, the German semiconductor company, believes it could increase its market share in memory chips to 17-18 per cent from 14 per cent, Ulrich Schumacher, chief executive, said [...]

Filtronic shares jumped 20 per cent yesterday even though the telecommunications component supplier announced wider interim losses and a small drop in sales. The company said its underlying performance had [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- AMD, the second-largest manufacturer of microprocessors for personal computers behind Intel, yesterday reported fourth-quarter sales and earnings which beat analysts' expectations. The company reported a net loss [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rambus, the memory chip design company, reported a 28 per cent fall in first-quarter revenues because of a sharp decline in memory chip prices but beat Wall [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel yesterday reported stronger-than-expected earnings on a 20 per cent plunge in revenues and said it planned to significantly reduce capital expenditure this year. The world's largest [...]

Intel's senior executives are likely to be in a good mood when they present the company's fourth-quarter results later today. Buoyed by a stronger than expected personal computer market, Intel [...]

Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing was meant to be the star of the island nation's high-technology industry. But some analysts say it is in danger of becoming an also-ran. Chartered has [...]

When Marc Lassus, founder of Gemplus, appointed Antonio Perez as chief executive last year, he claimed to have discovered the smart card maker's answer to Zinedine Zidane, the French soccer [...]

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON -- Shares of Solectron yesterday dropped 18.5 per cent to Dollars 12.06, after the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer warned the current quarter would be disappointing, [...]

JDS Uniphase, the largest fibre-optic communications component maker, yesterday warned that sales in its March quarter were likely to fall by 10 to 15 per cent sequentially. This would follow [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- NatSemi losses beat forecasts Shares in National Semiconductor were up 4 per cent yesterday after the US chipmaker posted a fiscal second-quarter loss that was less than [...]

Shares in Trifast, which makes and distributes fasteners, many of them used in electronic products, fell sharply yesterday after it unveiled a steep drop in interim profits and cut its [...]

FRANKFURT -- Epcos, the German elec-tronic component maker, yesterday warned it would face 'severe' price erosion in its products next year as it reported full-year results showing its first quarterly [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The global chip industry is continuing to decline, Applied Materials, the world's largest chip equipment maker, said yesterday as it warned that it would post a 'small' [...]

IQE shares rose sharply yesterday even though it moved heavily into loss in the third quarter, as the semiconductor group announced a series of deals with Motorola. Cardiff-based IQE will [...]

BOC is weathering the worldwide industrial downturn and weakness in the semiconductor market better than expected. The gases group yesterday reported an 8 per cent rise in full-year pre-tax profits [...]

The decision by Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, to list part of Infineon, its microchip unit, in March last year, should have sheltered Siemens' most stable businesses from the wild [...]

Shares in Morgan Crucible yesterday fell almost 15 per cent after the specialist materials and products group warned that a decline in customer confidence would cause full-year profits to be [...]

TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's leading maker of memory chips on contract, yesterday continued to confound pessimistic forecasts for global technology demand when it forecast an improvement [...]

SEOUL -- Creditors of Hynix may have to increase their proposed bail-out of the debt-laden South Korean chipmaker after it announced a record third-quarter loss. The slump in global demand [...]

PARIS -- STMicroelectronics, Europe's biggest chipmaker, yesterday reported a 91 per cent fall in third-quarter profits and announced further production cuts. The Franco-Italian group also forecast that its fourth-quarter gross [...]

Parthus Technologies yesterday became the latest chip design company to defy the steep downturn in the semiconductor sector by reporting better than expected quarterly results and predicting earnings would continue [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A sharp fall in revenues and rising costs caused net earnings at Intel, the world's biggest chip-maker, to collapse 96 per cent from Dollars 2.5bn to just [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, yesterday fell 2.5 per cent in midday trading, along with other leading chipmakers, on concerns about the future of the sector and [...]

CHICAGO -- Motorola, the big US telecoms equipment and semiconductor manufacturer that is sometimes seen as a technology sector bellwether, yesterday reported its third successive quarterly loss, but in line [...]

Arc International, the chip designer, yesterday sought to appease fears about its trading prospects when it announced that it was on track to meet forecasts for the third quarter. Confirmation [...]