Some companies that produce semiconductors, including I.B.M. can afford a purchase but they do not want to become tool producers.

A.T.&T. agrees with the Japanese strategy that a world-class ability to produce and improve semiconductors is vital to survival.

Although crucial to chip-making, the machines alone cannot produce semiconductors.

Sulfur or tellurium are used as dopants to produce n-type semiconductors.

Businesses that produce computers, software, semiconductors, and communications equipment have accounted for over a third of the growth in the U.S. economy since 1992.

Some think this is already happening in the industry that makes the machinery used to produce semiconductors.

American companies also trail in many processing equipment technologies, like those used to produce semiconductors.

American companies that make the equipment used to produce semiconductors continue to lose market share to the Japanese.

The goal of the prototype plant, according to industry officials, is not to produce semiconductors.

(SO stands for SiO, a material used to produce semiconductors)