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<title><![CDATA[Memory, foundry and LED markets drive fab spending in southeast Asia]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:02:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Semiconductor capex to fall 11.6% in 2012, says Gartner]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending is projected to total $38.9 billion in 2012, an 11.6% decline from 2011 spending of $44 billion, according to Gartner Inc.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BSE Group achieves milestones in semiconductor equipment financing biz]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:12:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Test Advantage Capital Group, a business of BSE Group, surpassed $150M in its portfolio of semiconductor manufacturing equipment under management. Boston Semi Equipment's fab equipment leasing business also received a $100M annual commitment from its financial backer, Wafra Capital Partners.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boston Semi Equipment brings fab equipment leasing to Japan]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:14:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Boston Semi Equipment LLC (BSE Group) established Boston Semi K.K. in Tokyo, Japan, for customers of its flexible financing on front-end and back-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[S-P-Equity-semiconductor-predictions-2011]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:00:50 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[S&P Equity Research semiconductor and semiconductor equipment analysts Clyde Montevirgen and Angelo Zino have issued their 2011 forecasts for the industry, covering sales/revenues, capacity utilization, back-end equipment, solar crossover, and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEMICON West 2008 in Review]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:08:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The line in the sand is slowly being washed away. At this year’s SEMICON West, it was hard to tell the difference between the front-end and back-end players.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rudolph to Acquire Applied Precision's Semiconductor Business]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:12:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(December 20, 2007) FLANDERS, NJ  Rudolph Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire the net assets of the semiconductor business of Applied Precision LLC, a provider of precision wafer probe card metrology systems and wafer probe process management systems to semiconductor final ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rudolph buys Applied Precision's semiconductor biz]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:12:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[December 19, 2007 - In a bid to extend into wafer probing, Rudolph Technologies has acquired the semiconductor business assets of Applied Precision LLC, a provider of wafer probe card metrology systems and wafer probe process management technologies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Analysts say 2007 worldwide semi capital equipment spending will increase 4 percent]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:10:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[October 3, 2007 -- STAMFORD, CT -- Semiconductor capital equipment growth is slowing, and the trough will push out into the first quarter of 2008, leading to flat growth in 2008, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.]]></description>
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