Chips – Semiconductor

Television has been called the “75-year-old killer application” and, indeed, one of the hurdles to-and possibly a shaper of-the mobile television experience is the recent trend toward giant, flat-screen TVs …

NETANYA, Israel-Intel Corp. has selected Siano Mobile Silicon’s multi-band, multi-standard receiver chipset for Intel’s mobile TV reference platform in its Xscale product line. The collaboration comes at a time when …

SAN DIEGO—Sequoia Communications, a fabless RF semiconductor company, said it raised $25 million in its series E round of financing. The round was led by BlueRun Ventures and included participation …

NETANYA, Israel—Intel Corp. has selected Siano Mobile Silicon’s multi-band, multi-standard receiver chipset for Intel’s mobile TV reference platform in its Xscale product line. The collaboration comes at a time when …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. boosted its financial guidance for the third fiscal quarter ending June 25 due to what the company said was strong demand for its chips for W-CDMA handsets …

In determining its path to a profitable future, Intel Corp. faces what other companies have faced before: the fundamental question of focus. Should Intel focus on core competencies, even if …

NORWOOD, Mass.-Analog Devices Inc. plans to purchase privately held, South Korean-based Integrant Technologies Inc. for $127 million. The move should bolster ADI’s portfolio with Integrant’s low-power radio-frequency chips for mobile …

WASHINGTON-Proponents of network neutrality face an uphill battle to convince the U.S. Senate to include net neutrality in its version of telecommunications reform after a major defeat Thursday in the …

WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a telecom-reform measure late Thursday that includes a plan to make Voice over Internet Protocol providers pay into the universal-service fund. But the House …

NORWOOD, Mass.—Analog Devices Inc. will purchase privately held, South Korea-based Integrant Technologies Inc. for $127 million. The move will bolster ADI’s portfolio with Integrant’s low-power radio-frequency chips for mobile television, …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—A new report from the Semiconductor Industry Association predicts semiconductor sales worldwide will grow 9.8 percent to nearly $250 billion this year, driven largely by the cell-phone market. …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intel Corp. is rumored to be exploring the sale of its communications chip business as it seeks to slim down its operations and focus on its leadership position …

The upcoming AWS auction of 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, now slated for August, raises the question of how many frequency bands might be jammed onto a handset and …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced a single-chip solution that supports a trio of mobile broadcast standards. The chipmaker’s new UBM chip supports Qualcomm’s own MediaFlo technology, plus Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced a single-chip solution that supports three of the world’s mobile broadcast standards. The chipmaker’s new UBM chip supports Qualcomm’s own MediaFlo technology, plus Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld …

NEW YORK—Investment bank UBS joined the latest wireless parlor game: Will Nokia Corp. or Qualcomm Inc. get the upper hand in the two companies’ intellectual property rights licensing negotiations? UBS …

In the face of raging immigration debates across the nation, Applied Digital Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott Silverman suggests “chipping” immigrants to help gain control of the situation. …

SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Wi-Fi aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. launched its Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit, an open source software package that enables developers to integrate Wi-Fi connection management technology into small devices such …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. raised its revenue estimates for its third quarter ending in June, indicating it expects revenue at or slightly above earlier forecasts of $1.77 billion to $1.87 billion …

SAN DIEGO—While its annual analysts meeting got underway in New York, Qualcomm Inc. launched a minor salvo of financial and product news today, including a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to …

Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., which dominate chip manufacturing for CDMA and GSM network and handset technologies, respectively, posted strong quarterly earnings for their latest fiscal quarters. For Qualcomm’s …

DALLAS—Texas Instruments Inc. late yesterday reported first-quarter net income of $585 million, a 42-percent increase from the $411 million profit in the year-ago quarter, and it issued a bullish forecast …

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice reported Qualcomm Inc. and Flarion Technologies Inc. have agreed to pay a $1.8 million in civil penalties for violating “pre-merger waiting period requirements” associated with Qualcomm’s …

Qualcomm Inc. said officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission visited its offices in Korea, as well as the offices of its chip customers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission visited its offices in Korea, as well as the offices of its chip customers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG …