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27 examples of Semiconductor in a sentence

It's made not of a bulky tube, but of a thin layer of a semiconductor material that serves as the gamma detector.
An LED is a semiconductor.
Now that same kind of software could destroy an oil refinery or a pharmaceutical factory or a semiconductor plant.
And this particular technique is one that's been borrowed from the semiconductor industry, and therefore is low cost and can be rolled out in large numbers.
This gigantic superposition of states determines the ways electrons move through the material, whether it's a conductor or an insulator or a semiconductor.
Understanding how electrons are shared among atoms allows us to precisely control the properties of semiconductor materials, like silicon.
And after many trials and tribulations and years of endeavors, we were able to come up with this flexible electronic patch that was manufactured using the same processes that they use to build computer chips, except the electronics are transferred from a semiconductor wafer onto a flexible material that can interface with the human body.
And we have done with it what the semiconductor industry has done so successfully for the past 50 years.
At a time of strong and growing market competition, he must provide the kind of visionary leadership that characterized his father and grandfather, the company’s pioneering founder, who transformed a small local trading company into a global semiconductor and smartphone powerhouse.
In response, China is now holding up the US chipmaker Qualcomm’s acquisition of the Dutch semiconductor firm NXP.
The most crucial intermediate good the US can withhold is advanced semiconductor chips.
In fact, the dubious notion that we should select economic activities based on their presumed technical innovativeness has been carried even further, in support of the argument that we should favor semiconductor chips over potato chips.
Many proponents of semiconductor chips also presumed that what you worked at determined whether, in your outlook, you would be a dunce (producing potato chips) or a “with-it” modernist (producing semiconductor chips).
I have argued, on the other hand, that you could produce semiconductor chips, trade them for potato chips, and then munch them while watching TV and becoming a moron.
On the other hand, you could produce potato chips, trade them for semiconductor chips that you put into your PC, and become a computer wizard!
When Intel plans a new semiconductor plant, it invites bids from various countries.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the acquisition of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.The PCAST report recommends that the US adopt similar tactics, calibrating export controls and inward investment limits according to China’s behavior.
Ultimately, whether the US semiconductor industry withstands the challenge that China poses will depend not on America’s success in curbing China’s progress, but rather on its ability to sustain and support innovation by US companies.History is replete with examples of the Thucydides Trap, tensions between rising and established powers escalate into military conflict.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the acquisition of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.
Ultimately, whether the US semiconductor industry withstands the challenge that China poses will depend not on America’s success in curbing China’s progress, but rather on its ability to sustain and support innovation by US companies.
More than a generation ago Intel's co_founder Gordon Moore noticed that improvements in semiconductor fabrication allow for a doubling of the density of transistors on a chip every eighteen months.
Siemens is carving out a choice filet in the form of its semiconductor business to be offered as one of the largest European IPOs on record.
For example, the Chinese State Council's plan to ensure that the country leads the world in semiconductor production by 2030 will involve the provision of at least €20 billion ($22.6 billion) in government subsidies to Chinese-owned firms, as well as discriminatory procurement to shut out their foreign competitors.
China has the most catching up to do in science-based innovation, which includes industries like specialty chemicals, semiconductor design, and branded pharmaceuticals.
There is no question that Huawei is feeling the heat as the US squeezes the supply-chain by putting pressure on America’s leading suppliers of semiconductor chips, other components, and software – companies such as AMD, IBM, Marvell, Intel, Google, and Microsoft.
And last year’s US ban on the sale of advanced semiconductor chips to telecom company ZTE, after the latter violated US export rules, clearly demonstrated China’s technological inadequacy.
Some of the spin-offs, such as UMC and TSMC, have grown to become large multinationals in the global semiconductor industry.