Refiners of raw data

Article Abstract:

American analog chip maker Linear Technology Corp's net profits grew by 48% from 1991, to US$25 million in 1992 and its sales grew 27% to US$120 million. The company manufactures analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. Analog chips for portable battery-powered products such as notebook computers and cellular telephones are Linear Technology's specialties. Linear Technology gets 3/4 of its business from industrial applications including process control, telecommunications, the car industry and the military, while 1/4 of its business comes from computer applications. Hongkong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore together account for 10% of the company's total sales, while 11% of its sales are made to Japan.

Semiconductor industry, Statistics, Linear Technology Corp.

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A new niche in 3-D

Article Abstract:

The computer graphics industry is booming. Workstation manufacturers such as Silicon Graphics have flourished while the rest of the computer industry declined. Nintendo and other video-game makers have benefited by adapting these revolutionary workstations to low-cost consumer products. The dramatic drop in the price of advanced, three-dimensional computer graphics from the over $100,000 range to the $10,000 range helped to fuel this growth. A US firm, S3, dominates the market for graphic accelerators, which are chips that speed up bit-blitzing or the transferring of information.

Product information, Marketing, Computer peripherals industry, Market share, S3 Inc., Computer graphics

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Crucibles for chips

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Japan's NKK Corp is planning to design, manufacture and market semiconductors. Towards this end, the company has joined with Integrated Device Technology and Paradigm Technology, both in Silicon Valley, and Taiwan-based Macronix. Contracts with these companies cost NKK some $40 million. The company emphasis in its semiconductor production will be to develop high-speed microprocessors.

Blast furnaces and steel mills, Planning, Steel industry, Semiconductors, NKK Corp.

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