SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has raised up to $316 million from selling shares in chipmakers Broadcom Corp. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.Motorola will spin off its chip business, which is named Freescale Semiconductors Inc., later this year.The vendor raised $216 million by selling...
Freescale Semiconductor said it is collaborating with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's testing laboratories to determine the interference potential of the various Ultra-Wideband waveforms.The waveforms include the direct sequence and multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplex. Freescale, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of...
DALLAS-Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc., Freescale Semiconductor has made a series of chip announcements covering areas such as voice over Internet Protocol and system on a chip.The company said it has extended its PowerQUICC processor-based VOIP solutions known as the MSC11x...
With bigger net incomes and increasing orders, wireless vendors blossomed with more optimism and richer cash flows than a year ago, signaling what industry watchers see as better times ahead.However, stock-market gains remain modest.L.M. Ericsson edged out market expectations in its fiscal first-quarter results...
Motorola Inc. announced its first-quarter results to market enthusiasm, generating its best stock momentum in three years.Its shares rose $3.11 to $19.33, representing a 20-percent leap.The vendor reported net earnings of $609 million, or 25 cents per share, in contrast with the same period...
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...
