The following wireless companies had debt ratings changes by financial services firms this week.Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed its ratings on four wireless tower companies on CreditWatch with positive implications. The companies are SpectraSite Inc., Crown Castle International Corp., AAT Communications Corp. and...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Wireless chipset vendor RF Micro Devices Inc. lowered its profit forecasts due to efforts to reduce the company's inventories. The company also blamed greater-than-expected development expenses for its Polaris modules, its next-generation cellular transceivers and its power amplifier modules."The company's quarterly revenue will...
Following is a roundup of wireless industry companies that were either upgraded or downgraded this week by financial investment and analyst firms.UBS upgraded Qualcomm Inc. to buy from neutral on solid growth estimates for W-CDMA technology based on favorable handset pricing and form factor,...
Two chipmakers are either selling or mulling selling part of their wireless businesses, while another company is selling its shares in a semiconductor firm. RF Micro Devices Inc. said it is doing away with its wireless local area network chip business in a move...
Two chipmakers are either selling or mulling selling part of their wireless businesses, while another company is selling its shares in a semiconductor firm.RF Micro Devices Inc. said it is doing away with its wireless local area network chip business in a move that...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc., provider of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless applications, today opened a new customer support and design center in Toulouse, France. The office was established to support collaboration between RFMD and leading wireless manufacturers located in Toulouse and other...
DALLAS-The chip market is not looking as cheery as a year ago as some of the bellwethers are witnessing slips in their fortunes. Texas Instruments Inc. and RF Micro Devices epitomized this trend as both failed to swing upward in their net earnings.TI reported...
A year ago, the semiconductor sector seemed on cruise control, while other sectors of telecom had just begun to rev up their economic recovery engines. Quarter after quarter companies reported sequential growth, confirmed by studies reflecting a surge in demand to feed a growing...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), provider of radio frequency integrated circuits, has completed its acquisition of Bluetooth solution provider Silicon Wave Inc.RFMD expects the acquisition to expand its total addressable market and strengthen its leadership position in the mobile handset market. To that...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc., provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), will acquire Silicon Wave Inc., supplier of integrated circuits for wireless personal area networks (WPANs).RFMD expects Silicon Wave's Bluetooth product portfolio to give it a strong foothold in the Bluetooth market. "Leading industry...
News from RF Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. and Skyworks Solutions Inc. reflects the flurry of activities in the semiconductor world.RFMD announced what it described as a strategic focus on three core business units, including cellular, wireless connectivity and infrastructure. All three division chiefs...
Amid predictions of the largest year ever for the mobile-phone industry, market leader Nokia Corp. stunned investors with news that its first-quarter revenues will clock in below expectations due to poor mobile-phone sales. The company's stock dropped almost 20 percent following the announcement, leveling...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Mobile-phone chipmaker RF Micro Devices Inc. said its revenues for the quarter will come in at the high end of its expectations of between $152 million and $163 million. The company said it is experiencing strong customer demand and anticipates increasing sales in...
HELSINKI, Finland-Mobile handset leader Nokia Corp. stunned investors with news that its first-quarter revenues will clock in below expectations due to poor mobile-phone sales. The company's stock dropped almost 20 percent following the news to about $17.33 per share."The overall Nokia sales were negatively...
ATLANTA-RF Micro Devices Inc. released its family of high-power, high-efficiency linear power amplifier modules for CDMA applications at this week's CTIA Wireless 2004 show.The RF3163, RF3164 and RF3165 PA modules are based on the company's Lead Frame Module packaging technology, which, according to RFMD,...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. led the mobile-phone charge with the introduction of five new advanced GSM phones, including three for the Americas market. The company's news came on the heels of new phone news from a variety of players.Sony Ericsson's...
OTTAWA, Canada-Atsana Semiconductor Corp. and RF Micro Devices Inc. respectively introduced a media processor and transmit module for mobile handsets.Atsana's product, the J211, is for embedded applications such as multimedia ones. RF Micro Devices transmit module is called the RF3177. It covers quad-band GSM/GPRS...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. announced production shipments of its RF3133 PowerStar power amplifier module to LG Electronics for use in the company's GSM/GPRS handsets recently released for the U.S. market. The LG G4010 and LG G4050 handsets became available last month through Cingular...
IRVINE, Calif.-As Bluetooth continues to slowly make its way into the wireless world, Broadcom Corp. announced Motorola Inc. is using its Blutonium single-chip Bluetooth transceiver in a variety of its mobile phones, including the new V500, V600, A760, A830 and A835 phones.Broadcom said its...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-Worldwide sales revenues from wireless local area network chipsets will reach $1.7 billion by 2007, according to new research from technology analyst firm CIR Inc., a huge leap from the $938 million WLAN chipsets will garner in 2003. CIR expects WLAN chipset sales...
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...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. and Silicon Wave have entered a partnership to manufacture and distribute Bluetooth solutions.Under the agreement, Silicon Wave will license RFMD to manufacture its single-chip UltimateBlue 3000 radio processor and CMOS Bluetooth radio modem solutions. In addition, RFMD will be...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. announced its RF8009 global positing system (GPS) receiver for telematics is now available. The receiver includes baseband digital signal processing logic that enhances the signal acquisition and re-acquisition process and enhances overall GPS functionality, thus improving the accuracy of...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. announced the availability of the RF3394, RF3395, RF3396, RF3397 and RF3398 RF amplifier integrated circuit gain blocks. According to RFMD, the devices, which meet requirements of wireless infrastructure applications, are a solution for circuit blocks, including IF and RF...
