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Buybacks sound good but many firms mint new shares to give to top execs
do not work out well for investors. Among the worst ones the past 10 years are: Dell TICKER;dell , National Semiconductor TICKER: nsm , Intersil (ISIL), Cadence Design (CDNS), Integrated Device Technology (IDTI), Tellabs (TLAB
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4 states see double-digit jobless rates in Jan.
unemployment rates above 10% in January, and the national rate is expected to hit double digits by year-end downward spiral. And more layoffs are on the way. National Semiconductor nsm said Wednesday it will lay off 1,725 employees
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All the World in a Wristwatch
than a thousand bucks in today's money. It's no wonder then that the big semiconductor companies -- Intel, National Semiconductor , Japan's Casio, Texas Instruments -- all rushed into the market. After all, a digital watch was little
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Tech giants rush to solar power
computer powerhouses Intel intc , IBM ibm and National Semiconductor nsm have barreled into solar energy, joining hundreds spinoff of its own fledgling solar unit. • National Semiconductor . The chip giant last month said its new technology
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US Agency to Investigate Semiconductor Patent Complaints
semiconductors containing tungsten by companies including National Semiconductor , based in Santa Clara, California, Integrated subject to review by the ITC. Representatives of National Semiconductor and Integrated Device Technology weren't immediately
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Silicon Insider: Don't Forget the Microchip
figures such as Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove of Intel, Jerry Sanders of AMD and Charlie Sporck of National Semiconductor . They were remarkable individuals, in some ways more like the oil wildcatters of old than the hip Web 2.0
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FTC Settles Ethernet Patent Dispute
Networks, a spin-off of National Semiconductor . N-Data attempted to collect larger patent license fees than National Semiconductor had negotiated with the Institute back in 1994, the FTC said. National promised the IEEE that if the
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Silicon Insider: Making a Smart Exit
but it is really all about failure." In fact, I was paraphrasing, a bit too facilely, the great marketer ( National Semiconductor , Intel, Apple) Regis McKenna. What Regis always said was that when you are looking to work with, or invest
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Silicon Insider: The Nonexistent Tech Monopoly
remotely familiar with the history of high tech, you can probably attach names like Microsoft, Intel, Hitachi, National Semiconductor , Oracle, IBM, etc. to one or another of these tactics. Having covered tech, and especially Silicon Valley
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Silicon Insider: Intel, Buy Texas Instruments
Advanced Micro Devices), innovators (Zilog) and manufacturers (TI), the kindly (HP) and the ruthless ( National Semiconductor ) -- and beaten them all. Intel had taken the title of the Most Important Company in the World in the early '80s
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Silicon Insider: Changing Staffing
Corporate Team Within the Valley, much of this creativity came from a troika of innovators: Regis McKenna at National Semiconductor , then Intel and Apple; Fred Hoar at Fairchild, then Apple; and the Ampex squad, moved en masse to Hewlett-Packard
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Silicon Insider: Little Guys Can Win
college and shrink it down into a pinball-sized package for a local bar. And, just down the road, Intel, AMD, National Semiconductor and Zilog were perfecting new processors that would bring stand-alone intelligence to calculators, watches
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Silicon Insider: A Defense of Stock Options
stock that led the employees of subsidiary Fairchild Semiconductor to depart en masse and start Intel, AMD, National Semiconductor and all of the other pioneering companies of Silicon Valley. More than that, stock options have always been
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Market Reaction to Inflation Talkthe Texas Instruments paid for National Semiconductor and this is another semiconductor paid about 78%. Premium to national semi conductors closing price reason they wanted to get in the national semiconductors business they
dollars to and that -- -- at the Texas Instruments paid for National Semiconductor and this is another semiconductor in the space. Coupling He -- on the deal it was in big premium Texas Instruments paid about -- 78%. Premium to national semi conductors closing price. The reason about the company all from the analog chip business. Now and I chips -- used in a wide variety of products everything from washing machines to military equipment to -- a wide range of products. A little less commodity in this -- that you find in computers that's the reason they wanted to get in the national semiconductors business they wanted to be at this analyst chip business. You know the deal is actually raising quite a few --
