Verigy sees, "GPU sector takes off" - Beats Q3 estimates

Revenue for the third quarter was $87 million, an increase 23 percent from the prior quarter, and a decrease of 51 percent from the prior year period. Net loss for the third quarter was $21 million. For Q4 revenue is expected to be in the range of $90 million to $100 million

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TSMC on equipment "spending spree"

EETimes reporting that TSMC is spending more than $250 million on semiconductor capital equipment in recent weeks.

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Advanced Fab Capacity Utilization tops 90%

Fab capacity utilization is now above 90% for all processes better than 80nm, and for all 300mm wafer processing.

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Downturn in the IC equipment market is over, says analyst

The Information Network market research compnay said it considers Applied Materials' results as a confirmation that "the downturn in the semiconductor equipment market is over".

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Advantest Q1 sees orders more than double sequentially

Orders more than double sequentially to 1.6 billion yen. Sales fell approximately 20%. Order backlog rose approximately 70% to 9.8 billion yen.

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Chroma ATE to see 20-30% revenue growth in 3Q09

Growth driven by orders from the solar power and LED testing sectors, according to market watchers.

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Teradyne: "Starting to Fire on A Number of Cylinders"

Teradyne seeing the first recovery stage in Semiconductor Test at the same time that their new Hard Disk Drive business is gathering momentum.

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Teradyne Q2 Revenue $40M above high end of guidance

Teradyne president Bradley says, "We saw significant improvement in our System-on-chip test business." Bookings in Q2 were $227 million.

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