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		<title><![CDATA[Equipment Orders Edging Up Sequentially (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200601/ai_n23922082]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While a three-month rolling average of chip equipment bookings for North American suppliers grew sequentially nearly 5 percent last month, they are still under what they were a year ago, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International SEMI sai      While a three-month rolling average of chip equipment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip Equipment Orders Rose in August (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200509/ai_n23920656]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of summer proved to be a good time for process and test equipment vendors in North American and Japan.      Backend assembly and test equipment helped drive the book-to-bill ratio for North American tool vendors above parity in August for the first time in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equipment Billings Drop in Q2 (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200509/ai_n23920387]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International said Thursday that revenue shipments for worldwide chip equipment manufactures were down 19 percent sequentially in Q2, and down 21 percent year over year.      The Silicon Valley-based trade group said that worldwide billings, or product shipments for which revenue has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equipment Billings Drop in Q2 (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200508/ai_n23920345]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International said Thursday that revenue shipments for worldwide chip equipment manufactures were down 19 percent sequentially in Q2, and down 21 percent year over year.      The Silicon Valley-based trade group said that worldwide billings, or product shipments for which revenue has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Semiconductor equipment revenue to drop 12% in 2005.(CHIP EQUIPMENT)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3381/is_200508/ai_n18887435]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment sales are on pace to  decline about 12% to $33.1 billion in 2005, according to a new Gartner  study.       The researcher says all segments of the semiconductor  capital-equipment market are projected to decli    Worldwide...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip-equipment maker Applied Materials has strong quarter.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200411/ai_n22274900]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip equipment demand stabilizes at high levels (Purchasing)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200409/ai_n23912314]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Orders for semiconductor capital equipment appear to have stalled after growing for months. Orders for equipment were about $1.61 billion in July, about flat with June, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International SEMI. Orders were still more than double the same month last year, when the chip industry ordered...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip equipment demand stabilizes at high levels.(Capital Equipment)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3381/is_200409/ai_n8117978]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Orders for semiconductor capital equipment appear to have stalled  after growing for months. Orders for equipment were about $1.61 billion  in July, about flat with June, according to Semiconductor Equipment and  Materials International SEMI. Orders    Orders for semiconductor capital equipment appear to have stalled...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip equipment revenue increased 10.3% in 2003.(Equipment)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3381/is_200405/ai_n8118172]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales increased  10.3% to $22.8 billion according to market researcher Gartner, Inc.       The three major sectors in the semiconductor manufacturing  equipment market experienced revenue increases in 20    Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales increased  10.3%...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip-Equipment Maker Applied Materials to Cut 200 Jobs in Austin, Texas.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200211/ai_n21712061]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kirk Ladendorf, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    By Kirk Ladendorf, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Japanese companies enjoy rise in orders for chip equipment.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sep 04, 2002 (The Asian Wall Street Journal - ABIX via COMTEX)    Capital spending by semiconductor firms is expected to fall by 20  per cent in 2002. However, orders received by Japanese chip-making  equipment firms rose in July 2002, for the fifth month in a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip-Equipment Makers See Record Sales Drop.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Lee, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Jul. 17--SAN JOSE, Calif.--One of the bellwether sectors of the   technology industry, semiconductor-equipment makers, expect sales to  decline  35 percent this year, the biggest year-to-year drop ever.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip-Equipment Sector Hasn't Bottomed Yet, Says Morningstar]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip-Equipment Maker Applied Materials Takes Steps to Cut Costs.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200102/ai_n22508923]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AMAT, a sleeping giant to awake in late 2001.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200101/ai_n20494982]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-15 January 2001-TheCoveredCall.com: AMAT, a sleeping  giant  to awake in late 2001 C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:15012001    Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) is currently trading well off its  high  of $115.00 that it hit last spring and the company has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[San Jose Mercury News, Calif., James J. Mitchell Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200010/ai_n22485362]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 8--SILICON VALLEY'S COMEBACK IN CHIP EQUIPMENT: The  proposed sale of Silicon Valley Group Inc. for $1.6 billion in stock is  a reminder of how far this country's chip equipment industry has  come since the late 1980s. And of how a small Silicon Va  Oct. 8--SILICON...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2000 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chips are recovering - Statistical Data Included]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WVI/is_1999_Nov_29/ai_58265869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest data from the North American chip equipment industry body SEMI suggests that the semiconductor industry is continuing to recover. October's book to bill ratio is 1.09, up from 1.07 in September.  The three-month average of worldwide shipments in October was $1.47bn, up 4% from September's level and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEMI President Predicts Return to Double-Digit Growth for Chip Equipment, Materials Industry Over the Next Three Years - Semiconductor  Equipment and Materials International - Industry Trend or Event]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BFP/is_1999_July_19/ai_55192412]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[After a steep downturn in 1998, the chip-equipment and materials industry is poised to return to double-digit growth over the next three years.  Stanley T. Myers, president of worldwide trade group Semiconductor  Equipment and Materials International, said today that growth of the  industry should reach 9 percent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chips: chip equipment industry may be taking the silicon out of Silicon Valley - Industry Trend or Event]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WUB/is_1999_Jan_18/ai_53613286]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The explosive growth in PCs and digital wireless devices is triggering a technology revolution in the materials and processes used to create  advanced, low-power chips. Silicon's preeminence as a basic building block may soon be challenged as  companies seek more effective materials in the unrelenting demand for ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chip Equipment Industry May Be Taking the Silicon Out of Silicon Valley]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Jan_13/ai_53556634]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 12, 1999--The explosive growth in PCs and digital wireless devices is triggering a technology revolution in the materials and processes used to create advanced, low-power chips.  Silicon's preeminence as a basic building block may soon be challenged as companies seek more effective materials in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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