Chips – Semiconductor

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it shipped on time chip samples and system software for the MSM5000 Mobile Station Modem. The company said this product is the world’s first third-generation 1x …

Qualcomm Inc. shares dropped 16 percent last Wednesday after the cdmaOne innovator warned of slower chip sales this quarter. This warning eclipsed Qualcomm’s higher-than-expected first fiscal quarter earnings. Merrill Lynch …

NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile …

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), attempting to play off GOP tax-cut and anti-big-government campaign themes, said he will push legislation this year to kill the telecom excise tax, …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-According to a report just released by Strategies Unlimited, a Silicon Valley market research firm, the worldwide market for Radio Frequency semiconductor devices in cellular telephones will grow …

After telling a friend in California about buying a computer for my kids and signing up for Internet access, I got this e-mail from him: “What a wonderful world your …

Analog Devices Inc. today plans to introduce the first digital signal processor to use the company’s TigerSharc DSP architecture. The TigerSharc architecture, which ADI introduced last year, is optimized for …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world’s largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology to DSP Communications Inc., which Intel …

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced legislation to remove the spectrum cap for third-generation wireless spectrum to be assigned by auction after Dec. 31. “The Third-Generation Wireless Internet” is not as …

LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson announced its first consumer product incorporating Bluetooth technology at Comdex/Fall ’99. The cellular phone headset connects to a mobile phone by a radio link instead of a …

Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., has entered into an agreement with STMicroelectronics Inc. to develop an AM/FM decoder chip for Cue’s new SkySpeed.com network for mobile Internet applications for automotive and …

WASHINGTON-A company with a name that means “a rapid gallop” or “the blare of a horn” next month plans to begin alpha testing a technology that could greatly reduce the …

Alain Rossmann, founder of Phone.com, told the opening session audience at CTIA’s Wireless I.T. conference last week in Santa Clara, Calif., that the wireless data industry has moved beyond the …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs has developed a single-chip digital signal processor that operates at 100 MHz using only 1 volt of power, the company said. Typical system-on-a-chip …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Following up its widely acclaimed NeoPoint 1000 smart phone, NeoPoint Inc. last week at Wireless I.T. introduced a location-based wireless portal called myAladdin.com. The portal is positioned as …

Motorola Inc.’s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+ portfolio for wireless systems. The processor …

NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a 46-percent gain in net income, to $3.83 billion, for the fiscal year, and a 42-percent gain in net income per share, to $1.22, excluding …

News that the world’s largest chip maker, Intel Corp., plans to purchase mobile-phone chipset maker DSP Communications Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash left some analysts concerned last week that …

Agilent Agilent Technologies debuted the SQL server 7.0 database scanner and HP SFCommand. HP SFCommand will help network operators integrate all security applications, such as monitoring and the implementation of …

The popularity of wireless may be contributing to an industrywide shortage of some components used in mobile devices, although device manufacturers may not be feeling the effects just yet. After …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group and Mobicom Corp. said they are working together to build and deliver wireless handsets to China’s Global System for Mobile communications market, estimated at …

TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short …

SHENZHEN, China-Konka Group Co. Ltd. of China and Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group announced a five-year agreement under which Konka will use Lucent’s Global System for Mobile communications technology platform …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments plans to introduce today a chipset that combines radio-frequency data transmission and reception with a microcontroller unit. The chipset consists of the TRF6900 single-chip RF transceiver, which provides …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it has expanded its development of third-generation telecommunications technology to include a commercial “system on a chip” using Frequency Division Duplex technology. InterDigital …