Chips – Semiconductor

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

NEW YORK-Intel Corp and five other wireless chip makers suffered downgrades from Merrill Lynch to sell from neutral. The other companies include Analog Devices Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corp., Conexant …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel corp. said it has opened a $2 billion expanded chip plant, called Fab 11X, in New Mexico to build microprocessors on 12-inch silicon wafers. “As computing and …

PARIS, France-STMicroelectronics has denied press reports that his company is in possible merger talks with Motorola Inc. or any other major corporation. “We keep our eyes and ears open but …

TOKYO, Japan-Intel Corp. said it expects its Manitoba microchip to usher in an era of one-chip processor when the product launches in 2004. The company has been one of the …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Sandbridge Technologies has made commercially available its new Sandblaster Baseband Processor, which uses software defined radio to enable multimode, multiplatform and multifunction wireless terminals. The company said its …

ARLINGTON, Ill.-Neither Motorola nor STMicroelectronics has confirmed press reports that both companies are in talks that could lead to Motorola’s semiconductor division being sold to STMicroelectronics. Such a merger will …

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said they have decided to bring their semiconductor units together to form a new company called Renesas Technology Corp. The new company, which should …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-ARM Ltd. said it will collaborate with China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. to develop an ARM7TDMI microprocessor core-based test chip for the Chinese company’s 0.18 CMOS process. “The …

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Visa International has developed a chip-based card that will enable users to make payments without inserting or swiping their cards. “Based on an international standard, ISO 14443, the …

NEW YORK-The quarterly estimates of Texas Instruments Inc. and Micron Technology dropped in the eyes of two brokerage firms, Salomon Smith Barney and Bear Stearns respectively. Qualcomm Inc., however, enjoyed …

NEW YORK, N.Y.-Spirent Plc said it has acquired Ubinetics” CS100 product line and rights to associated intellectual property for $6.5 million in cash. “The CS100 3G base station emulator product …

GENEVA, Switzerland-STMicroelectronics said it will present at the Diskcon Exhibition in San Jose next week a new read/write chip called Leonardo that cuts consumption power on mobile phones. “Building on …

IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. said it has introduced its AirForce BCM4702 network processor chip and the WiFi-compliant BCM94702AP reference design platform to support next-generation wireless local area network technologies. “Broadcom complete …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. says it has rolled out a chip known as TNET1100B, which uses less power in cellular phones and personal digital assistants. The chip focuses on Wi-Fi-based devices …

NEW YORK-Canesta Inc recently made commercially available its Projection Keyboard original equipment manufacturer development toolkit to permit mobile device manufacturers to customize projection keyboard layout using the San Jose, Calif. …