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...The ESF statute allows the Secretary of Treasury to deal in “instruments of credits and securities” that she considers necessary....
...Lawsuits in states including Utah, Louisiana, Texas and Florida succeeded in temporarily halting bans....
...At US chipmakers Sylvania and Texas Instruments, Chang became an expert in increasing the yield — the proportion of non-defective transistors on a production line — according to Chris Miller, an economic...
...Instruments....
...Nikkei reports ($) that inventories were up at Renesas of Japan, Infineon, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments at the end of September, indicating that the global shortage of those chips used by the...
...Chipmakers elsewhere are also benefiting — Texas Instruments beat expectations and raised forecasts in its earnings report overnight, with its shipments to the auto industry up 25 per cent....
...Texas Democrats block proposed law that would restrict voting rights The Democrats blocked a final vote on a law that would tighten voting restrictions in the US’s second most-populous state, after staging...
...“If I were running a major corporation, I’d stay out of politics,” McConnell told reporters....
...The tie-up is expected to create a $68bn chipmaking powerhouse that will help the companies compete with much larger rivals like Texas Instruments....
...Last month Lynas announced it would build a rare earths processing plant in Texas, with Blue Line Corporation....
...It was created with the backing of investors, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the state of Texas pension fund....
...As early as 2000, Richard Chang, a former Texas Instruments executive, quit Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, to set up Semiconductor Manufacturing International...
...As such, the top five companies are Intel, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Microsoft and IBM (the rankings also seem to be an advertisement to major in electrical engineering)....
...For example, IBM and Texas Instruments were persuaded to work together on silicon semiconductors by the state, much to the chagrin of IBM chief executive Tom Watson Jr....
...Maxim has long been rumoured as a potential takeover target, reportedly having held talks in recent years with the likes of Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, according to Bloomberg....
...Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation slid 8 per cent on lower first-half earnings, while Honda shares jumped more than 5 per cent on an improved profit forecast....
...Leo Esaki of Sony and IBM won a Nobel Prize in physics, as did Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments. Irving Langmuir of General Electric won a Nobel in chemistry....
...Many MLPs, and some of the pipeline companies that are structured as regular corporations, have business models that depend on perpetual growth justifying continuing cash inflows....
...The point they make is that for an instrument like an MLP, which is explicitly about paying distributions, figuring out how much distributions will go up is a relevant analysis....
...MLPs are yield-based instruments and have been in much favour in recent years because of their cash distributions (yields typically are in the 3 to 6 per cent range)....
...Japanese corporations now have their own Congressional delegations....
...Fellow chipmaker Texas Instruments went one better, saying earlier in the year that it hoped to distribute all of its free cash flow....
...Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel (short for Integrated Electronics), are jointly credited with coming up with the integrated circuit, by different means, at about the...
...Yet his bosses were slow to see the microchip’s potential; as a result, others such as Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor took the lead....
...Potential targets have been rumoured to include Research In Motion and Texas Instruments’ chip business....
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