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finance |ˈfīnans; fəˈnans|nounthe management of large amounts of money, esp. by governments or large companies.• monetary support for an enterprise : housing finance.• ( finances) the monetary resources and affairs of a country, organization, or person : the finances of the school were causing serious concern.verb [ trans. ]provide funding for (a person or enterprise) : the city and county originally financed the project.ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, from finer ‘make an end, settle a debt,’ from fin ‘end’ (see fine 2 ). The original sense was [payment of a debt, compensation, or ransom] ; later [taxation, revenue.] Current senses date from the 18th cent., and reflect sense development in French.
• $250k FDIC raised insurance policy will end at a new extended date previous from [2010] to 2013; returning the deposit insurance back to $100k.
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NEC Electronics Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. have signing a deal to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas on April, 2010.
| Rank 2009 |
Rank 2008 |
Company | Country of origin | Revenue (million $ USD) |
2009/2008 changes | Market share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Intel Corporation |  USA |
32 095 | -5.0% | 14.2% |
| 2 | 2 | Samsung Electronics |  South Korea |
17 123 | +1.3% | 7.6% |
| 3 | 3 | Toshiba Semiconductors |  Japan |
10 640 | -4.0% | 4.7% |
| 4 | 4 | Texas Instruments | USA |
9 612 | -13.2% | 4.2% |
| 5 | 5 | STMicroelectronics |  France Italy |
8 400 | -18.6% | 3.7% |
| 6 | 8 | Qualcomm | USA |
6 475 | +0.0% | 2.9% |
| 7 | 9 | Hynix | South Korea |
5 940 | -1.4% | 2.6% |
| 8 | 6 | Renesas Technology | Japan |
5 664 | -19.3% | 2.5% |
| 9 | 12 | AMD | USA |
5 038 | -7.6% | 2.2% |
| 10 | 7 | Sony | Japan |
4 670 | -32.8% | 2.1% |
| 11 | 11 | NEC Semiconductors | Japan |
4 403 | -24.4% | 1.9% |
| 12 | 10 | Infineon Technologies |  Germany |
4 340 | -27.1% | 1.9% |
| 13 | 14 | Broadcom | USA |
4 198 | -9.6% | 1.9% |
| 14 | 16 | Micron Technology | USA |
3 995 | -9.9% | 1.8% |
| 15 | 24 | MediaTek |  Taiwan |
3 524 | +21.7% | 1.6% |
| 16 | 19 | Elpida Memory | Japan |
3 498 | -2.8% | 1.5% |
| 17 | 13 | Freescale Semiconductor | USA |
3 344 | -32.7% | 1.5% |
| 18 | 15 | Panasonic Corporation | Japan |
3 330 | -25.6% | 1.5% |
| 19 | 17 | NXP |  Netherlands |
3 247 | -19.9% | 1.4% |
| 20 | 18 | Sharp Electronics | Japan |
2 886 | -20.0% | 1.3% |
