Sentences with phrase «buying chip companies»

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

Not exact matches

Radio frequency chipmakers RF Micro Devices will buy peer TriQuint Semiconductor for about $ 1.6 billion in an all - stock deal to create a company that could better compete in selling chips to mobile - handset makers.

The news of two rival chip companies working together comes at an interesting time, as chip maker Broadcom has put forward a $ 130 billion offer to buy its rival, Qualcomm.

Apple has been growing its chip design capability since the Steve Jobs - era, when the company bought PA Semi for $ 278 million in 2008.

In the fast growing smartphone chip market dominated by Qualcomm, Intel has hardly been a player, and the company has largely bought its way into the tablet market by selling at a loss.

Companies are trying to integrate microcontrollers and radios and sensors all on one chip, which means they are buying firms to bring that expertise in house.

Japanese chip company Renesas is in talks to buy Maxim in what could be a $ 20 billion deal, according to people familiar with the matter.

It also sells its sensor chips to other companies — about 200 have bought it so far — who will install them in their products.

Many blamed the problems on Nooyi's cuts in advertising and marketing for sodas and chips, as well as the $ 7.8 billion she spent to buy back Pepsi's bottlers, which reduced the company's return on invested capital.

The dispute between the two companies broke out after Apple started using modem chips from Intel (intc) in about half of new iPhones last year, instead of buying all its chips from Qualcomm.

When Andrew Pyle bought shares in SNC - Lavalin Group in 2010 he thought he was buying one of Canada's best blue - chip companies.

There are just so many blue chip employers in the area so that unemployment is very low (aside from the companies you already mentioned): Microsoft, Google, Nintendo, Expedia (who just bought a huge building in DT Seattle), Boeing, Costco, and so many more that I'm probably forgetting!

Betsy Van Hees of Loop Capital says Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC)'s deal to buy Mobileye NV (NYSE: MBLY) is a critical step in the transformation of the chip maker beyond being just a PC company.

«Buy a diversified portfolio of blue - chip, dividend - paying, large - cap stocks (think Dow 30 type companies), and then write covered call options against them for recurring monthly income,» he said.

Among the deals killed recently by the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) were Ant Financial's plan to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc (MGI.O), the purchase by China - backed Canyon Bridge Capital Partners LLC of a U.S. chip maker and plans by Zhongwang USA, backed by a Chinese aluminum tycoon, to buy a U.S. aluminum maker.

That's why a market order is best used when buying stocks that don't experience wide price swings — large, steady blue - chip stocks as opposed to smaller, more volatile companies.

Herr Foods was founded when James Stauffer Herr bought a small potato chip company in Lancaster, Pa..

The company would later buy back its original chip in 1998 after going public in 1996.

My prediction is coming true (the prediction Chip linked to in his blog post above)... and the fact that FaceBook JUST announced they were buying another company has as much symbolic meaning as it does anything else.

By the way, the microchannelled chips can already be bought from a German company.

* Alcatel stock has tripled in past seven months * Firm ranks 30th among French companies for free float size * Buying pressure seen at 255 mln euros - Exane BNP Paribas * Alcatel would replace STMicro in benchmark By Blaise Robinson and Alexandre Boksenbaum - Granier PARIS, Nov 28 (Reuters)- Alcatel - Lucent could rejoin France's blue - chip CAC 40 index next month as the telecom gear maker's turnaround gains traction and...

We launched DTA's Income Builder Portfolio last month by buying a piece of one of the world's largest biotechnology companies, and we followed that with purchases of a blue - chip industrial conglomerate and America's No. 1 tobacco - products seller.

You can buy blue chip companies the same as any of the Mutual Fund managers are buying with a lot less commission.

While there may not be many mega-mergers left in the spirits industry (few companies are big enough to buy fellow blue chips outright), we're now seeing a rash of merger mania in the smaller, craft distilleries, which is where Brown - Forman has traditionally looked for its acquisition growth.

But for buy - and - hold investors, Berkshire's stakes in blue - chip companies can be instructive nonetheless.

Weiss first constructs a universe of qualified blue - chip companies, then relates their current dividend to the company's historical norm to decide if the company is buy, hold or sell.

When assessing the best blue chip companies to buy with your $ 100,000, you need to ask: What are they doing to remain vital?

Those buying stocks stuck to well - financed «blue chip» companies.

He began buying shares in Blue Chip companies like IBM and Caterpillar and Coca - Cola.

But this is not the buy list of a City fund manager: these blue chip companies are all currently under investigation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

With the exception of the Intel Atom «SoFIA» chip, most of the others are indeed quite old chips, so this decision shouldn't have too much of a negative impact on PC users and companies that bought Intel chips.

Even Apple, which typically shuns big deals and doesn't even disclose many smaller acquisitions, bought its own chip design company, P.A. Semi; Beats, the headphone maker and music service; and Siri, the voice - controlled assistant service.

If you want to build a Z - Wave - compatible product, you must buy the chips from either Sigma Designs or the one company Sigma has allowed to become a second source: Mitsumi.