By ASHLEE VANCE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — While accustomed to the boom-and-bust nature of their industry, the companies making the semiconductor chips that run computers, cellphones, digital cameras and even cars find themselves in the middle of a collapse in sales that resembles total chaos.
With sales of most manufactured goods plunging in this recession, demand for [...]

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Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. said on Wednesday a 2004 agreement with Intel Corp. allows it to make chip sets that work with Intel’s next-generation microprocessors.
Intel on Monday had alleged in court that a four-year-old chipset license agreement between the two companies does not extend to its next-generation Nehalem products, Nvidia said in a statement.
“We are [...]

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