The Commerce Department is poised to send out surveys to the semiconductor industry in a follow-up study to a 2009 effort designed to get a handle on the current field, according to a source with knowledge of the effort. "This is a 'Who's left?' survey," the source said. The Commerce Department intends to send the survey to about 300 companies this spring, and then release the findings during the fall, the source said. Requested by Commerce's International Trade Administration, the...
