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Japan is unique in the sense that there is a very large number of semiconductor companies that supply a significant amount of their product internally.

Mike Splinter

Revenue growth is decelerating rapidly, and a trough isn't expected until the third quarter of 2001, ... Based on semiconductor industry data for November, we also lowered our projection of the global industry's growth rate in 2000 to 36 percent from 40 percent.

Mark Edelstone

I think in general, all of us are somewhat disappointed in the second half of this calendar year in terms of the semiconductor opportunity.

Donald Macleod

If you look at almost anything else semiconductor away from Intel, they're doing better today. People are viewing the semiconductor space as being strong in general and Intel is not the bellwether it was in the past.

Michael James

We see general softness in the entire semiconductor industry, but particularly in commodity products. Customers are delaying their orders.

Mcgregor Scott

All of our major businesses, namely semiconductor, telecom and LCD are seeing definite improvement compared with the second quarter.

Chu Woo Sik

I joined RFID a year and a half ago, and I've been on a mission to leverage as much of semiconductor as possible, to make this business successful going forward. I believe the customer focus model for semiconductor is a good fit.

Julie England

Last year we focused on placing one or more of our flagship products at the top semiconductor manufacturers in the world as ranked by spending. Capacity expansion plans announced by several of these customers are contributing to our more optimistic outlook, and we are also experiencing increasing demand for our legacy products.

Don Mitchell

I do think, though, longer term the semiconductor area, both equipment makers and the chip producers, is probably the best area to be in this market looking forward.

Terence Gabriel

The majority of semiconductor manufacturers have and will continue to maintain their investment discipline and invest carefully, although some vendors will be investing strategically in 2006.

Klaus Rinnen

Our record results reflect customers' investments in expanded capacity to meet increasing semiconductor demand and in advanced technologies to provide more powerful, portable and affordable semiconductors.

James Morgan

China has enacted a number of laws to protect intellectual property, including a law to protect semiconductor layout designs. Enforcement of IP protection laws has been widely recognized as falling short of what is needed to deter violations. In some cases, penalties for violation of IP rights are so light that they are considered to be a routine cost of doing business.

George Scalise

Intel will set the tone for the semiconductor sector, but also for the tech sector and the overall market, as well.

Jay Wong

Productivity is the issue. If you have people that are sick or afraid to leave their house, I don't know how you can get around that. Semiconductor manufacturing plants are in China and it's not as if there are many back up plants around the world.

Jay Wong

The Davidson 99 has benefited from a revival in the semiconductor, electronics and aviation industries, all important economic drivers in the Pacific Northwest.

Fred Dickson

Getting the costs down to $20 ex-factory is a big challenge for handset manufacturers and their semiconductor and component suppliers and we believe with our background we can help both Tier 1 handset makers and original design manufacturers to meet this target.

David Mcternan

It was an in-line quarter; there was not a whole lot of surprise. Revenues were a tad light, but only a hair. One positive is the semiconductor segment did very well in general.

Bob Bacarella

There are early signs that the long-awaited corporate PC-replacement cycle may indeed about to begin, but it is too early to say that significantly increased semiconductor sales to this sector are guaranteed.

Richard Gordon

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Alvin Toffler

The semiconductor business is very cyclical. But we really believe that you can't turn the spigot on and off to the community. We have remained very constant, even if we are not profitable in a given year.

Allyson Peerman

The semiconductor industry continues to show signs of improvement in a healthier global economic environment. As the market for computing, consumer communications and Internet-related products continues to grow, we believe Applied Materials, with our technology leadership and global infrastructure, will have an excellent opportunity to capitalize on this growth.

James Morgan

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.

Lou Gerstner

This has been a lost decade and a half for Japanese semiconductor companies. Japan has been caught between the United States and Asia, and this middle ground keeps shrinking.

Yoshiharu Izumi

Power Integrations' product range is highly complementary to our existing power semiconductor lines, and adding this franchise to our line-up is the latest step in our strategy to offer our customers a balanced portfolio of products from a range of world-class manufacturers.

Martin Brown

We really like LSI Logic as one of the semiconductor picks. They have a broad exposure to consumer electronics, to digital cameras, to networking, to a lot of real important growth themes in the economy.

Drew Cupps

The chip industry is on fire now. It looks pretty apparent we're in the early stages of an upturn in the entire semiconductor industry.

Paul Wick

Semiconductor vendors remain conservative in their investment plans, which is enabling a continued gradual decline in supply-chain inventory levels and incremental improvement in manufacturing capacity utilization rates.

Richard Gordon

Larger companies have divisions that all of a sudden have value now after this bear market. Nobody would have been interested in a semiconductor company a year ago.

Kathy Smith

Flat-panel televisions is a big sector for semiconductor makers to tap. Supplying to an industry leader will be a significant breakthrough.

Phil Chen

Jim brings to the position many years of manufacturing experience and a hands-on approach to quality manufacturing and customer satisfaction. Our vertical approach to design and building world-class semiconductor equipment relies on quality design and efficient manufacturing. Over the years, Jim has proven his ability to lead our manufacturing organization to new levels of excellence.

Larry Murphy

Microchip stands alone among semiconductor companies by offering a no-cost, truly integrated development environment for 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers and 16-bit digital signal controllers, all the way from 6-pin to over 100-pin devices.

Derek Carlson

We are delighted to welcome Miramar as an investor. Miramar has deep ties to the semiconductor industry and is the perfect partner to take us through our next phase of growth.

Paul Cunningham

Every time inventories build, people in general get very nervous. You get a little bit of panicking, especially when things have been as good as they have [in the semiconductor sector] .

Tore Svanberg

This is especially encouraging given the fact that the first quarter is generally expected to be a seasonally down quarter for the semiconductor industry.

Bill Aylesworth

We continue to believe that growth expectations for the semiconductor industry in general are too high, and multiples in this industry have to come down.

Paul Leming

We remain committed to profitable growth in our four key markets and are encouraged with our first quarter's results. 2006 is expected to be a growth year in semiconductor test and we believe we are well positioned to gain additional traction.

Dave Ranhoff

As the semiconductor cycle goes through a rough spot, then clearly Japanese manufacturers will be affected. Their desire to build new capacity and plant will be affected -- and so it's clearly not a good thing for the Japanese economy.

Robert Feldman

While an industry-wide slowdown in semiconductor demand is something management has little control over, of greater concern to us is management's continued difficulty in executing its handset product transitions and cost reductions in an increasingly competitive market. We do not see this improving anytime soon.

Brian Modoff

Pocatello is benefiting from the growth of high-technology companies ... including AMI Semiconductor, which is the largest high-tech employer.

Ken Dey

The semiconductor market has rebuilt momentum.

Tom Engibous

Semiconductor manufacturers have to predict the market. They have to think like their customers and take their own read on consumer interest.

David Carey

It will impact the Dow but on broader basis it won't do much to the market. I think there are much bigger factors today such as the semiconductor index above its 200-day moving average and it faces some cautious comments out of Merrill.

Marc Pado

Intel's financial position and status as the semiconductor bellwether may be in jeopardy if it fails to find strategic opportunities in other faster growing markets such as communications and consumer electronics.

Apjit Walia

Motorola had to spread its resources over too many areas. By moving away from the semiconductor business, it can spend more on research and development and also make its earnings stream more smooth.

Sunil Reddy

The semiconductor industry has few equals when it comes to resource conservation and minimizing its environmental impact. Through these and other activities, ISMI will continue to work in that tradition.

Scott Kramer

Renesas is a global leader in the semiconductor market and signing this renewal represents strong validation of our patent portfolio.

Harold Hughes

Semiconductor makers are bottoming out because of strong demand. Any good news is likely to drive shares higher.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Institutional sentiment still wants to be long the market. It wants to be long semiconductor stocks, regardless of what Intel had to say.

Michael James

Recently we added another leading U.S. semiconductor manufacturer to our MAGELLAN(R) System customer base.

Don Mitchell

It's my perception, the fluctuations are a lot less than they used to be, and part of the reason for this is [semiconductor] saturation. We don't need a killer app any more – chips are in everything.

Scott Becker

Expectations are that the semiconductor industry continues to expand despite the normal historical summer seasonality. Annual revenue growth for the industry could be up to 40 percent.

Robert Maire

We may be early here but we're also adding money to the semiconductor stocks, which have been volatile to say the least. It's better to be early than to miss the ride here and we don't see a lot of downside.

Jim Gribbell

Participants of this workshop are living in their own silos and need to come to a consensus on the business model that will drive the semiconductor industry going forward.

Clayton Christensen

We see now for several weeks already a consensus around a decline of semiconductor market year-on-year of 26 percent.

Gerard Kleisterlee

We believe we are in the second half of a semiconductor-cycle decline. The bias should be toward building positions while being price sensitive. We believe downside risk to equipment stocks is less than potential 12-18 month rewards.

Shekhar Pramanick

This acquisition further expands and strengthens our portfolio of factory process control solutions. We see the Argus product as providing a critical solution to the semiconductor industry in both lithography development and early prototype manufacturing.

Joseph Nemeth

This is a classic case of bad timing. If it hadn't been for the downgrade, those (Japanese) semiconductor shares should have performed strongly today.

Akihiko Sakakibara

Between PCs and handsets you've got about 35 percent of total semiconductor consumption. This is going to impact everybody in the chip sector. Nobody is outside the scope of slowing growth in those two markets.

Kevin Rottinghaus

The semiconductor sector in general is in very good shape; the industry hasn't invested enough in capacity and that is actually very good for chip makers. Intel is often treated as a proxy for the chip sector, so the chip sector is doing well and so is Intel.

Joe Osha

This is a highly synergistic partnership. It delivers what the US defense, aerospace and homeland security market needs by combining our leading semiconductor laser technology with EM4's US-based high performance packaging capability.

Steve Turley

The assumption is that a lot of the problems that we're seeing in the semiconductor industry now are related to the economy, and any move by Greenspan to shore up the economic situation we're seeing is going to be very beneficial.

Drew Peck

Intel's forecast is evidence that the semiconductor industry is likely to peak in the first quarter.

Michael On

The finality of the inventory correction is not only great for Intel but the entire semiconductor market. Investors had been assuming that the first quarter would be the bottom but it's nice to see real evidence of it.

Cody Acree

There has been an enormous profusion of companies. Innovation has developed so rapidly in Silicon Valley beginning with the semiconductor base that we now see maybe 50 different categories of industries here representing over 5,000 different companies.

Regis Mckenna

The outlook for the semiconductor industry this year remains positive and demand for memory chips will be sustained.

Jeon Jeong Woo

The technology stocks, especially the semiconductor sector, are starting to come back into favor. This looks like a change in leadership from other areas like the energy sector. People are looking to put money back into the market, especially into sectors that have been laggards.

William Lefkowitz

Growth in orders, revenues, margins and earnings was outstanding, ... We again shipped a record number of units into the wireless and mass markets. We expect steady semiconductor growth to continue in the fourth quarter.

Tom Engibous

We remain focused on releasing excellent new products to the marketplace that will enable us to meet our five-year plans. The recently announced acquisition plan for Dallas Semiconductor will certainly add to our new product efforts during this period.

Jack Gifford

We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spending for an industry that is expected to grow by 10 percent, compared with 6 percent to 7 percent last year.

Frank Wang

In 1999, the huge corporation, Siemens at that time, had so much to say in how you did things -- logistics concepts, finance concepts – that it held back the semiconductor business. Now with memory and logic, we're in the same spot.

Bernd Liehard

The mobile-phone marketplace for semiconductor products is one of the best opportunities out there today. It's not suffering from the same malaise as the PC market.

Donald Macleod

This inquiry is narrowly focused on Applied Materials' licensing of semiconductor technology and is not a broad-based review of its business practices.

Jeffrey Lettes

It appears that investor sentiment for upstream semiconductor-related shares has been strong.

Shawn Wang

We believe the semiconductor inventory correction is far from over.

Daniel Niles

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Jonathan Joseph

The supply of semiconductor devices is becoming more constrained, and the downward pressure on the average selling prices of devices seen in 2005 has eased. Any lengthening of device lead-times in coming months will be seen as further evidence of a tightening market.

Andrew Norwood

Frankly, a lot of semiconductor stocks are priced to perfection and in the absence of really positive news, the stocks are a little overdue for a pullback.

Eric Rothdeutsch

It's important for Intel in the sense that it should accelerate their overall revenue and earnings growth. It's important for the semiconductor industry because its introduction is likely to spur additional PC demand.

Erika Klauer

The semiconductor industry will, we believe, experience period capacity shortages for these leading-edge production wafers. As some of the end markets for our products begin a steep growth phase, we will need every wafer we can get.

Eli Harari

The main reason China's semiconductor market is growing so quickly is because China's consumer electronics market is very big and growing bigger. Demand for high-valued added chips like National's continues to be high. We don't forecast an industry slowdown, especially in the higher value-added chips, for some years to come.

Edward Yu

I think it's a good strategy, ... Cascade has done a great job in the semiconductor research market; the opportunity now is to see if they can extend to other areas.

Fred Whitehurst