0 a company that manufactures chips that are used in computers and other electronic equipment:
The chipmaker's $700 million offering of convertible notes also priced, with the initial conversion price at $8 per share.
Add it all up and there are only a few chipmakers left standing.
Instead, chipmakers started to put the transistors toward more cores--essentially additional complete, independent processors from the perspective of software.
There's another potential risk for chipmakers and, by extension, their suppliers.
The world's biggest chipmaker said it will cut 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its global workforce, by the middle of next year.
Typically, though, the chipmakers are able to deliver the new hooks within a month or two.
The chipmakers are playing catch-up with their customers.
That's going to continue, but chipmakers predict companies focused on other areas also will jump into the market.
