NORWOOD, Mass.-Analog Devices Inc. reported strong financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2004, resulting in a cash dividend for stockholders. The company recorded revenues of $678.5 million, up 35 percent from the same period a year ago. Net income came in at...
If Motorola Inc.'s position as the No. 2 handset maker has remained tenuous during the past two years, the company just lost that same spot in another space in the semiconductor world-digital signal processors. DSPs process voice and video signals in the baseband of...
RAMAT GAN, Israel-Startup TransChip Inc., which offers digital camera modules for sale to mobile-phone makers, announced it scored a significant $19 million in Series D financing. Redpoint Ventures led the round, and Mission Ventures, Cadence Design Systems Inc., Ray Stata, co-founder and chairman of...
FREMONT, Calif.-Singapore's ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. and ChipPac Inc. have agreed to merge, creating what it calls one of the world's premier test and assembly solution providers for semiconductors.The companies have tested and packaged chips for bellwethers like Intel Corp and Analog Devices...
Succeeding with a business partner in China is not always about great business acumen. Sometimes, it boils down to opening a taste bud for a snake delicacy.Two companies, Analog Devices Inc. and Starent Networks Corp., said they have built relationships with their partners in...
While Intel Corp. was reorganizing its operations to adjust for disappointments in its chip business, Texas Instruments Inc. was presenting an upbeat picture for the fourth quarter last week.Looking forward, though, both companies say business is not bad. That is the metaphor for the...
PHILADELPHIA-This week's IEEE MTT-S 2003 trade show prompted power amplifier announcements from industry players, including RF Micro Devices Inc. and Analog Devices Inc.RF Micro Devices Inc. announced availability of the RF3146, the third generation of its PowerStar GSM power amplifier module, with integrated power...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it is pulling out of its slump even as its chief executive officer defended the company's decision to offer stock options of up to 14 percent of its outstanding shares.With a 23-percent sales growth between the first quarters of...
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...
LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called "Making EDGE Real-Out of Development and into Mobile Device," on Thursday at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002.In addition to discussions...
NORWOOD, Mass.—Compaq Computer Corp. selected Analog Devices' Othello and Softfone GSM/GPRS chipsets for use in its wireless Pack for the iPAQ Pocket PC."The field-proven Othello and Softfone chipsets allowed the Wireless Pack to easily pass the stringent GSM full type approval, FCC and industry...
As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
Intel Corp. embedded itself further into the wireless space last week as it demonstrated its Micro Signal Architecture, a fast digital signal processor for wireless handheld devices the company developed with Analog Devices Inc.The product, which is capable of operating at speeds of up...
Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. jumped into the wireless game and into competition with Texas Instruments Inc. after introducing a Micro Signal Architecture that integrates digital signal processor and microcontroller features in a single platform.The architecture is optimized for processing modem, audio, video,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless Internet and networking infrastructure applications.Intel said the XScale microarchitecture has the flexibility to handle requirements for both ultra-low power and...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
When questioned about the narrowband wireless local loop market, people in the telecommunications industry offer such differing opinions you expect a hidden camera to be planted somewhere in an attempt to catch your bewildered expression.According to Arnon Kohavi, vice president of strategic business development...
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 CDMA innovator Qualcomm Inc. may wreak havoc on the benefits.DSPC licenses Code Division Multiple...
SONY ELECTRONICSSony Electronics introduced a new alphanumeric pager with a synthesized tuner, generic-over-the-air programming capabilities and the company's Jog Dial operation, called the MP-7001. The generic-over-the-air programming technology, or GOTAP, is an advanced feature of the Motorola Inc. FLEXsuite protocol. Sony also released the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. announced a joint development agreement to design a digital signal processor core architecture to process video, image, voice and data in emerging embedded communication devices.Under the terms of the agreement, the two will combine engineering teams...
Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX chipset and software solution first announced a month ago is available for purchase. The company also released more details about the product.The chipset includes a ReFLEX encoder/decoder equipped with ReFLEX Stack two-way software and a complete transceiver/receiver subsystem. This marks the...
Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the competitive landscape.IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics division last week announced it will pump $100 million into several new initiatives designed to expand...
Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to jump-start third-generation mobile phone technology.Motorola's semiconductor segment and Lucent's Microelectronics Group next quarter plan to create a joint design center,...
