Although Aura Communications Inc. executives maintain that the company's technology is merely an ancillary part of the massive wireless industry, the potential of the company's offerings is certainly noteworthy.Founded in 1995, Aura is a fabless semiconductor vendor. The company sells chips to electronics manufacturers...
FRANKFURT, Germany-As the mobile-phone sales increase, the world's chipmakers continue to look to take advantage of the market opportunity.For example, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe released its new Mobile Media Processors, which the company said incorporate MPEG-4 and JPEG hardware encoding and decoding functionality. The chips...
TEMPE, Ariz.-In spite of price declines, wireless local area networks chip market witnessed a 176-percent growth in 2003 with Broadcom Inc. as the big winner in revenues, according to a study released by Forward Concepts.The report said prices fell 40 percent last year, and...
Atlanta-Qualcomm Inc. made several announcements at the CTIA Wireless 2004 show in Atlanta including an extensive agreement with ATI Technologies Inc. to deliver a wireless 3D gaming platform. Qualcomm's Mobile Station Modem baseband solutions will include ATI's IMAGEON architecture to provide a 3D...
ATLANTA-UTStarcom Inc. said it has entered an agreement to acquire the intellectual property portfolio of Hyundai Syscomm for between $12 million and $15 million in cash.Terms of the deal call for UTStarcom to acquire the product portfolio, intellectual property-including about 2900 Korean, U.S. and...
ATLANTA-Wireless application and technology company Air2Web announced it acquired European wireless software company Wokup SA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are very excited about the merger with Wokup," said Sanjoy Malik, Air2Web's president and chief executive officer. "Air2Web is already providing significant...
CHICAGO-Despite the possibility the carrier may be forced to chip in additional funds to cover spectrum procured through its Consensus spectrum realignment plan currently in front of the Federal Communications Commission, Fitch Ratings upgraded its rating of Nextel Communications Inc.'s senior unsecured notes and...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today said it filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization about China's tax treatment of integrated circuits imported from the United States, likely raising the stakes in a separate trade dispute between the two countries over a Chinese Wi-Fi security...
ATLANTA-Wireless application and technology company Air2Web announced it acquired European wireless software company Wokup SA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are very excited about the merger with Wokup," said Sanjoy Malik, Air2Web's president and chief executive officer. "Air2Web is already providing significant...
MONTREAL-Wavesat Inc., which develops OFDM broadband wireless access silicon solutions, said it has entered a cooperative agreement with ZTE Corp. of Shenzhen, China.The agreement calls for ZTE to evaluate Wavesat's DM256 chip."We will test and evaluate Wavesat's DM256 chip and we believe the cooperation...
WASHINGTON-The stakes have been raised in the U.S.-China wireless trade dispute, with the Bush administration last week issuing a veiled threat about seeking redress at the World Trade Organization, and Intel Corp.-the world's top chip-maker-declaring it will not back the Asian giant's Wi-Fi standard."While...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. said it cut 50 positions from its research and development facility in Texas. The company said the layoffs were primarily in its radio network and core network research divisions.Nokia spokeswoman Laurie Armstrong said the move was part of an effort to...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. plans to unveil an ultra-wideband platform and it joined an initiative with other players to promote a common USB standard. The chip bellwether said it is working with members of the multiband OFDM Alliance to develop a standard UWB radio...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. has announced plans to unveil a platform for the ultra-wideband wireless technology and joined an initiative with other players to promote a common USB standard.The chip bellwether said it is working with members of the multiband OFDM Alliance to develop a...
OTTAWA, Canada-Atsana Semiconductor Corp. and RF Micro Devices Inc. respectively introduced a media processor and transmit module for mobile handsets.Atsana's product, the J211, is for embedded applications such as multimedia ones. RF Micro Devices transmit module is called the RF3177. It covers quad-band GSM/GPRS...
LONDON-Startup Gametrac Europe Ltd. is taking direct aim at industry giant Nokia Corp. with plans to sell a wireless video-game device very similar to Nokia's N-Gage. And to do so Gametrac is siding with Nokia's main rival in the space: Microsoft Corp.Gametrac said it...
FREMONT, Calif.-Singapore's ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. and ChipPac Inc. have agreed to merge, creating what it calls one of the world's premier test and assembly solution providers for semiconductors.The companies have tested and packaged chips for bellwethers like Intel Corp and Analog Devices...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments signaled the chip industry's assured return to good times with a net profit of $512 million, or 29 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. This trumps the company's result of the same quarter last year when it suffered a loss of...
Going by the quarterly reports of major vendors, wireless equipment business is whirring back to favor. Putting panic behind them, Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. recorded solid growth, while Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Siemens AG reaffirmed sunny outlooks.Lucent unveiled its second consecutive...
Motorola Inc. posted a net income of $489 million, or 20 cents a share for the fourth quarter of 2003, trumping Wall Street expectations.This figure contrasts with a year ago when the company had a net income of $174 million.Although the company's present chief...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments said it has unveiled what it calls the first complete EDGE smart-phone chipset and reference design.The product, known as TCS3500, is buoyed by the OMAP processor and supports all leading mobile operating systems, including Symbian, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Linux and Palmsource, according...
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. filed a lawsuit alleging Micron Technology Inc. is infringing on Motorola's patents for dynamic random access memory. Motorola, which plans to spin off its chip division, claims Micron infringed on 10 patents and has failed to pay compensation or reach a...
Two chip companies say their chips have been selected for wireless devices, while another has begun shipments of its products.Nvidia Corp. said its multimedia graphics processor known as GoForce 2100 will be in the innards of Mitsubishi Electric's latest i-mode mobile phone, the M...
GENEVA-STMicroelectronics said it has acquired wireless local area networks chip developer Synad Technologies Ltd., a startup based in the United Kingdom.The acquired company, which has 50 engineers, will bring to ST its expertise in radio frequency, digital integrated circuit design, and system and software...
