BioCentury
ARTICLE | Strategy

Holding all the chips

October 29, 2001 8:00 AM UTC

The microarray space has thinned out, as Corning Inc. and Incyte Genomics Inc. have exited the arena, while Hyseq Inc. has moved into alliance with Affymetrix Inc. to develop high speed DNA sequencing chips.

The moves leave AFFX as the major dedicated array play. But the forces underlying realignment haven't disappeared, meaning that AFFX and other would-be players such as Agilent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. still face challenges for growing the space...