In 1970, Drori founded Monolithic Memories, a semiconductor firm that pioneered advances in memory and logic technology.

Sprague got into the semiconductor business in the late 1950s, rather late compared with the already established semiconductor firms which started in the early 1950s.

One of the machines uses 32 chips of a type known as the Transputer, made by a British semiconductor firm, Inmos Ltd.

As has been much (too much) remarked upon, U.S. semiconductor-parts companies do a lot of business with Asian semiconductor firms.

He founded the United Test and Assembly Center, a semiconductor firm, in 1998.

Many semiconductor firms intentionally located their research and development facilities in Silicon Valley to take advantage of MAR spillover.

In one suit, Mr. McElhinny demanded to see the scientific journals received by an engineer who left one semiconductor firm for another.

Juleff's company sells chemicals and other products to semiconductor firms and is annoyed that most of his big customers are American.

Over the past year Japanese semiconductor firms have spent a colossal 850 billion ($6.7 billion) building more production lines for 4-megabit chips.

Between them, Japanese semiconductor firms will produce 120m of the new 4-megabit chips for the year ending in March.