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Semiconductor International’s Top 100 for 2008

Over the past year, readers turned to stories and webcasts about trends in semiconductor manufacturing and markets, with photovoltaics muscling its way through much of the Top 100. The economy seemed to get worse as the year went along, nosediving in the fall, which accounted for attention paid to economic forecasts. Changes to the ITRS and trends in packaging/3-D interconnects also proved attractive to our readers in 2008.

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