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The Motley Fool February 27, 2007 Dan Bloom	Verigy Lifts Investors' Spirits Verigy turns in a better than expected quarter and predicts improvement in the future. Investors, take note.
InternetNews February 1, 2010	Intel, Micron Shrink Flash Chips, Up Capacity Flash memory chips get scaled down to a 25-nanometer process.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2006 Dan Bloom	Semiconductor Growth Is Slowing Despite the prevalence of consumer electronics devices, sales growth has slowed dramatically since the '70s. The slowing growth rate of semiconductor chips should have investors rethinking how they should value and invest in this industry.
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The Motley Fool August 18, 2010 Eric Jhonsa	Time to Start Worrying About Chip Stocks? The July semiconductor earnings numbers were great, but warning signs also emerged.
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The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Dan Bloom	Applied Materials Rides the Memory Wave If you invest in semiconductor companies, you're probably well aware of the volatility of their businesses. Applied Materials delivers good results, but will memory customers keep spending?
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InternetNews October 29, 2009	Intel, Numonyx Invent the Memory Club Sandwich New means of stacking layers will allow for more memory density.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2005 Dan Bloom	NAND Flash Dazzles Investors More devices are using NAND flash -- but manufacturers' profits aren't guaranteed. Investors, take note.
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InternetNews July 6, 2004 Erin Joyce	Micron: Flash in the Plan The semiconductor player eyes the NAND Flash memory market for memory cards, USB devices and other mass storage applications.
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	August Chip Sales Notch $20.5 Billion August was even better than the strong July, with PCs and consumer electronics devices driving the growth.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2007 Dan Bloom	Spansion's Loss Expansion Spansion is still struggling to generate a profit. Investors, take note.
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InternetNews March 20, 2007 Clint Boulton	Toshiba, Hynix Settle NAND Flash Beef Computer-chip memory makers Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor have settled all pending patent litigation between them in the U.S. and Japan and have agreed to work together.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Joins Flash Memory Melee The German chipmaker jumps into a profitable but potentially volatile market that is teeming with competitors.
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InternetNews January 12, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Ready to Carry Terabytes in Your Pocket? SanDisk, Sony see multi-terabyte memory sticks over the horizon. Maybe not this year but soon.
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BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Moon Ihlwan	March Of The Flash Chips NAND flash-memory chips power Apple's new iPod - and look set to compete with hard drives.
InternetNews September 11, 2006 Clint Boulton	Samsung Hits Flash Marks With rivals like Toshiba in mind, the company introduces new chip systems and a Flash memory approach.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2007 Dan Bloom	SanDisk's Slimdown Plunging NAND flash prices spark cost-cutting. SanDisk is probably the best-positioned firm involved in NAND flash manufacturing, but companies that produce memory have traditionally been less-than-stellar investments.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Dan Bloom	Novellus Flashes Forward Novellus Systems reported results for its fiscal second quarter. As expected, the chip equipment maker reported strong increases in sales, earnings, and bookings, and expressed a remarkably bright outlook for NAND flash memory. What's next?
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Clint Boulton	Little Disk Drives to Reap Big Chip Sales Consumers are snapping up mobile computing machines with small form factor hard disk drives, driving chip sales.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2005 Rich Duprey	Spansion's Expanding Losses Pre-IPO flash memory unit of AMD reports that it will have a larger fourth-quarter loss.
InternetNews April 5, 2010	Semiconductor Sales Dip Slightly in February Worldwide chip sales fell 1.3 percent last month, but that's not much cause for concern considering revenue is up more than 54 percent from last year's low.
InternetNews April 18, 2011	Intel Joins with Micron for Flash Memory on SSDs Intel is continuing its push forward into the SSD market, thanks to a new partnership with Micron.
InternetNews May 22, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Intel Spins Off Flash Unit, Gets The Lead Out Intel has teamed with French-Italian semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics to form a new flash memory company in Switzerland to create memory for consumer and industrial devices.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Harry Goldstein	Loser: Too Little, Too Soon With 80-GB hard drives fast becoming the standard for affordable laptop computers, Samsung's plan for pricey flash-based solid-state disks is impractical.
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InternetNews May 31, 2007 Clint Boulton	Intel Spearheads Memory Group in a 'Flash' Intel, Microsoft and Dell today said they have formed the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface working group to provide a standard application programming interface for NAND flash systems.
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InternetNews May 28, 2004 Michael Singer	Oversupply Is Flip Flopping Flash and DRAM With demand expected to spike this year, some memory makers are changing the way they do business.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Clint Boulton	Intel, Micron Get Together For Flash The chipmaking powerhouses form a company dedicated to building NAND flash memory products.
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BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Robert Barker	Agilent's Stock-Option Drag The stock of this HP spin-off has fallen dramatically, but is it cheap now? More than most of its peers', Agilent's earnings are poised to suffer next year when stricter rules for employee stock options take effect.
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