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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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 processors for wireless handsets."Because of its flexibility and ease of use, Linux is becoming...
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...
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...
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 Systems Inc., PMC-Sierra Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp.The investment bank wrote that the chipmakers' stocks...
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 communications devices converge, the need for increasingly complex components with more capabilities will grow," Intel...
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 we have a strong internal growth strategy, so we are not obliged to do...
