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First GSM/TD-SCDMA chipset may be ready next year

BEIJING-The first GSM/TD-SCDMA chipset may be ready for rollout by mid-2004, according to RTX Telecom, which plans to make the products."The GSM/TD-SCDMA chipset will be based on the chip supplier's EDGE and W-CDMA chipsets," said RTX, which said it has been working on the...

Chipmakers battle it out in applications processor space

Chipmakers continue to stake claims in anticipation of an assured industry upswing.Bellwethers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. offered optimistic second-quarter projections, reinforcing a view that the sector has seen its worst days. In separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, both companies...

Samsung plans upgrade of DRAM plant

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it plans to spend $500 million to upgrade its dynamic random access memory chip plant in Texas.The company still leads in memory chips with Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor Inc still struggling.

Agere Systems releases read-channel chip

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said it has introduced a low-power read-channel chip that enhances performances and extends battery life in handheld computers and other wireless devices."The Agere's TrueStore read-channel RC6500LP is optimized to deliver superior signal integrity and performance for portable hard disk storage...

Oki Electric to double sales for PHS chips in 2003

TOKYO-Oki Electric, a leading electronic manufacturer in Japan, plans to expand sales for semiconductors for PHS handsets to meet far-expanding demand for PHS units in Asia, the firm said Wednesday. The company is targeting to sell a total of 7 million units of LSI...

WiFi coming to New York airports

NEW YORK-LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark airports, all operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will have public and private wireless local area network access by year-end.Concourse Communications, Springfield, Mass., has begun deployment of the neutral host network at...

IDA collaborates with Intel on Wi-Fi program

SINGAPORE-The telecom regulator in Singapore announced a collaboration with chip maker Intel Corp. on a Wi-Fi initiative that the Infocomm Development Authority said would help achieve "seamless connectivity in the wireless world for Singapore and Asia."The total investment by the two groups is $2.25...

Matsushita to launch handset train experiment

Matsushita Electric Industries, the leading consumer electronics company in Japan, has launched an experiment of a cashless train riding system in Hokkaido, a Northern Island in Japan. For the month-long experiment to be conducted until March 15, Matsushita provided a handset with a built-in...

Bell Labs announces turbo decoder chip for enhanced UMTS

SAN FRANCISCO-Researchers from Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs announced what it describes as the world's first turbo decoder chip for terminals that support an enhanced version of UMTS called High Speed Downlink Packet Access."The Bell Labs-designed chip, which will be licensed to manufacturers of...

Zyray Wireless launches W-CDMA FDD chip

CANNES, France-Zyray Wireless, developer of W-CDMA and space time technology (STP), will launch SPINNERchip 1.0 at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes later this month.SPINNERchip 1.0, a W-CDMA FDD add-on baseband processor chip for existing GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handset solutions, enables dual-mode...

Zyray Wireless to appear at ChinaTech conference

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Zyray Wireless will take part in a panel on third-generation wireless at the ChinaTech 2003 Conference taking place in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 18 and 19."Migrating to next generation technologies in a rapid and cost-effective manner poses a great challenge to the wireless...

Aperto Networks provides connectivty solutions

NEW YORK-Responding to demand from carriers with heavy corporate users, Aperto Networks, Milpitas, Calif., said it has introduced commercially the PacketWave 600 Series Wireless Bridge to provide connectivity between locations up to 30 miles apart."Unlike conventional point-to-point systems on the market, our 6 MHz...

Samsung approves investment in chip business

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics said it has approved a plan rumored earlier this week to spend US$1.23 billion in a plant to produce dynamic random-access memory and flash memory chips.The plant-the company's 12th-is located in Hwasung, Kyungiddo, south of Seoul."We are investing to maintain...

Samsung approves $1.2B investment in chip business

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics said it has approved a plan rumored earlier this week to spend $1.23 billion in a plant to produce dynamic random-access memory and flash memory chips.The plant-the company's 12th-is located in Hwasung, Kyungiddo, south of Seoul."We are investing to maintain...

Wireless boosts semiconductor sales

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Global semiconductor sales hit $12.68 billion for the month of November, slightly up from the $12.51 billion reported in October, and well above the year-ago's $10.6 billion, according the Semiconductor Industry Association."The November sales of the global chip industry underscore the healthy...

Hitachi, Mitsubishi to merge semiconductor operations

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., with the goal of turning a profit in its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said...

New Lucent chip doubles voice, data capacity

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks' capacity for voice and data traffic.The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent's newly released Flexent Modular Cell 4.0...

Hitachi, Mitsubishi to merge semiconductor operations

TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., whose goal is to turn on profit its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said they...

New Lucent chip doubles voice, data capacity

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks' capacity for voice and data traffic.The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent's newly released Flexent Modular Cell 4.0...

New Lucent chip doubles voice, data capacity

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks' capacity for voice and data traffic.The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent's newly released Flexent Modular Cell 4.0 base...

New product releases: September to end-2002

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TI to embed Linux platform into OMAP processors for handsets

DALLAS-In a move to push for Linux-based wireless devices, chip maker Texas Instruments said it will work to embed a Linux platform from MontaVista Software Inc. into its OMAP application processors for wireless handsets."Because of its flexibility and ease of use, Linux is becoming...

Cyberbank integrates SyChip solution into PDA

PLANO, Texas-Describing the product as the first chip that integrates CDMA and wireless local area network solutions in a single device, SyChip said Cyberbank Corp. has integrated the SyChip WLAN6060EB embedded solution into its POZ hybrid PDA. "The integration ... will enable POZ users...

Cyberbank integrates SyChip solution into PDA

PLANO, Texas-Describing the product as the first chip that integrates CDMA and wireless local area network solutions in a single device, SyChip said Cyberbank Corp. has integrated the SyChip WLAN6060EB embedded solution into its POZ hybrid PDA."The integration . will enable POZ users to...