AUSTIN, Texas-Freescale Semiconductor reported net sales of $1.44 billion compared with net sales of $1.43 billion in the fourth quarter and $1.4 billion during the first quarter of 2004.Net earnings for the quarter were $85 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, compared with...
OTTAWA-Zarlink Semiconductor and Wavesat said they have conducted a successful test of circuit-switched traffic over a WiMAX connection.The tests demonstrated carrying E1 and T1 services across a WiMAX broadband wireless access network using CESoP technology, said the companies.The companies' solution uses Zarlink's CESoP technology...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-EDOM Technology and Magnolia Broadband Inc. signed a distribution agreement that allows EDOM to sell, distribute and support Magnolia's DiversityPlus handset chipsets to original equipment manufacturers in Taiwan and China.Magnolia is a fables semiconductor company and EDOM is a Taiwan-based semiconductor distributor. Magnolia's...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. reported revenues of $2.97 billion for the first quarter, which is about even with the $2.94 billion the company reported for the first quarter of last year, but down 6 percent sequentially due in part to declines in its semiconductor business.Net...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Cellular3G Inc. announced a full-rate High Speed Downlink Packet Access solution, which the company said is a natural migration from its commercial UMTS Rel.4 UE baseband processor called TopHat. Alex Lax, the company's chief technology officer, said the new HSDPA design meets 3GPP...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-The ZigBee Alliance announced four ZigBee-compliant platforms from Chipcon, CompXs, Ember and Freescale Semiconductor Inc.The alliance conducted testing of the platforms to ensure interoperability via its official test houses, National Technical Systems Inc. and TUV Rheinland. It also used analysis tools from...
Freescale Semiconductor launched a single-source ZigBee-compliant platform, which the company said is the first of its kind in the world. The product was confirmed as IEEE 802.15.4- and ZigBee-compliant by TUV Rheinland of North America.The solution enables wireless products for monitoring, sensing, automation and...
SpectraSite Inc. filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer 250,000 shares of its common stock to adjust to a market price obligation. This will fulfill a stock buyback agreement with Goldman, Sachs & Co., and the market price adjustment is...
Following is a list of wireless companies that received ratings changes by financial and analyst firms this week.Merrill Lynch upgraded its ratings on several semiconductor companies. Among its upgrades were Intersil from sell to neutral and its rating on Broadcom from neutral to buy....
BRISTOL, United Kingdom-Wireless semiconductor company Icera said it completed a $10 million extension to its July 2004 series B funding round, which now totals $32.5 million. Icera said the round was fully subscribed by existing investors Accell Partners, Atlas Venture and Benchmark Capital. The...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Semiconductor supplier Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. filed for a $172.5 million initial public offering. The company filed for the ticker symbol AATI.Advanced Analogic Technologies supplies application-specific power management technologies for electronic devices. The company offers more than 400 power management products comprising Power...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-The memory business did not fail chip companies last year, according to an annual semiconductor ranking from iSuppli Corp. The ranking showed that memory chip companies outperformed companies that concentrated on other products, said iSuppli.The sales revenue of companies such as Samsung...
ATLANTA-As predicted by close industry watchers, the IEEE meeting here did not come up with a definitive tally for the 802.11n standard, but it was able to determine a preliminary winner-the TGN Sync. It garnered 56 percent of the vote as against rival Worldwide...
As predicted by close industry watchers, the IEEE meeting here did not come up with a definitive tally for the 802.11n standard, but it was able to determine a preliminary winner-the TGN Sync consortium.TGN Sync garnered 56 percent of the vote as against the...
DALLAS-The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium, one of two competing groups offering a proposal to IEEE for 802.11n technology, gained another heavy hitter Friday as Nokia Corp. switched its support to the group.Motorola Inc. joined the WWiSE group last month.Nokia previously had been...
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...
Motorola Inc. has thrown its weight behind one of two main standard proposals being developed for 802.11n technology. The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency consortium said it has harmonized its technical proposals with Motorola, which had developed a separate one. This will result in an...
Following is a roundup of ratings changes for companies in the wireless market during the week of Feb. 28.JP Morgan upgraded its rating on Texas Instruments from Underweight to Neutral on expectations of a mild upturn in the semiconductor industry beginning this year and...
TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. announced it formed a new design company, Renesas Design France S.A.S in Rennes, France, which the company said will develop and design baseband LSIs for phones. Renesas has been supplying system LSIs for mobile phones since the company's establishment. The company...
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...
Motorola Inc. has thrown its weight behind one of two main standard proposals being developed for 802.11n technology.The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency consortium said it has harmonized its technical proposals with Motorola, which had developed a separate one. This will result in an enhanced...
AUSTIN, Texas-Samsung Electronics and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. demonstrated a prototype mobile phone that includes ultra-wideband technology."Working with a world leader such as Samsung on this exciting product concept showcases the tremendous possibilities for UWB in cellular products," said Franz Fink, senior vice president and...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Digital wireless company TTPCom this week made available technology enabling TV reception on next-generation mobile phones. TTPCom unveiled a DVB-H (digital video broadcast for handhelds) demodulator/decoder technology designed to allow semiconductor vendors to deploy high-performance video broadcast services quickly and cost effectively....
OTTAWA, Ontario-SiGe Semiconductor Inc. launched a Global Positioning System receiver system for cellular phones. The SE8901 GPS receiver works with GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS phones. The receiver integrated circuit integrates a GPS radio, GPS processing accelerator, on-chip LNA and image reject mixer in...
