Chips – Semiconductor

BERLIN, Germany-Siemens AG said its voting rights in chip maker Infineon have dropped to 25 percent, following the sale of 4.3 million shares of its pension fund on the stock …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. reported solid earnings in line with investor expectations and company projections, evidence the company has reined in its costs and cash management. …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. reported solid earnings in line with investor expectations and company projections, evidence the company has reined in its costs and cash management. …

SAN DIEGO-CDMA proprietor Qualcomm Inc. said it expects to meet the high end of its third-quarter estimates both in earnings per share and phone chip shipments. The company had anticipated …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the cost of integrating a camera into a cell phone is only US$10, silicon chip developer STMicroelectronics has complained that European terminal makers are resisting the move …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said its second-quarter profits stood at $43.9 million, or 5 cents a share, amounting to a 60-percent drop. A year earlier, the company reported net income of …

SEOUL, Korea—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reported $7.6 billion in total sales for the first quarter and $1.46 billion in profits, which marked a record 764-percent increase from the fourth quarter. …

SAN BRUNO, Calif.—Broadband wireless company IPWireless Inc. announced it will partner with Flextronics Semiconductor to develop and manufacture the IPWireless System on a Chip (SoC). “The SoC design will open …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Sprint PCS signed an agreement with SportsLine.com Inc. to offer its Wireless Web subscribers up-to-the-minutes sports news and information. “Sprint is clearly providing the type of valuable information …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—With Bluetooth chipset manufacturers forecasting shipments of more than 90 million devices this year, the technology looks, eventually, like it is coming of age. The announcement last week …

LONDON—Although global computer chip sales are down sharply form a year ago, year-on-year comparisons are improving, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, commenting on numbers recently released by the European …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Mobile phones should be equipped with satellite tracking and theft alarms, according to the U.K.-based Design Council. The organization claimed that if cell-phone manufacturers adopt these two examples, …

BEIJING—China Unicom’s CDMA network registered 448,000 subscribers at the end of February. Only a paltry 9,000 users signed up in February. The vast majority of CDMA users were transferred from …

HAMAMATSU CITY, Shizuoka—Yamaha Corp. announced it will provide a 16-note polyphonic cellular ring tone download service to German carrier E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG—coinciding with E-Plus’s launch of i-mode …

AUSTIN, Texas, United States—Motorola said it sold its GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handset chip technology to Benq of Taiwan, one of Asia’s leading original design manufacturers of mobile phones. …

TOKYO—Motorola Inc. said it plans to shut its chip plants in Texas and Japan, involving 4,000 layoffs. This will be part of the 9,400 workers the company plans to cut …

WASHINGTON-A Bush administration report due out shortly could hurt Nextel Communications Inc.’s campaign to win government approval of a controversial spectrum realignment plan designed to resolve commercial wireless interference to …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will launch gpsOne-enabled handsets and their associated position location service plans from KDDI Corp. in Japan this month. Qualcomm’s gpsOne technology is integrated on its …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced it will launch gpsOne-enabled handsets and their associated position location service plans from KDDI Corp. in Japan this month. Qualcomm’s gpsOne technology is integrated on its …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. announced it is selling its Virginia-based chip manufacturing plant to Micron Technology, thus exiting the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip manufacturing business. Toshiba expects the sale of …

BURNABY, British Columbia—PMC-Sierra has released its PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a reference platform for third-generation wireless base station designs. PMC-Sierra said the new design kit allows developers to design …

KISTA, Sweden—Spirea AB unveiled its BlueTrac RF transceiver chip and BlueAmp power amplifier designed to extend the range of Bluetooth radios. The company said the BlueTrac chip does not require …

BEIJING—Philips Semiconductor and China’s Huawei Technologies have agreed to jointly develop application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for 3G products. Philips Semiconductor will mainly provide technical support and manufacturing services. The …

While 802.11b, otherwise known as Wi-Fi, has made huge inroads as the wireless local area network technology of choice, many companies providing equipment and support for the technology acknowledge higher-speed …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hitachi Semiconductor Inc. said it has unveiled a new Flash memory product, called Mobile Media Chips, which saves space and enhances storage for multimedia functions in handheld PCs, …