SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Seiko Epson Corp. has integrated its LCD controller chip with Qualcomm's integrated mobile display digital interface technology.The MDDI solution connects LCD panels and camera modules to the mobile station modem."The MDDI solution complements our business strategy, enabling us to offer...
AUSTIN, Texas-Freescale Semiconductors Inc. announced fourth-quarter profits as Scott Anderson, its president and chief operating officer, left the company stating it was time to move on.The company reported a full-year net income of $211 million, or 62 cents per diluted share, compared with a...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Fixed-line operators should be concerned about competition from High-Speed Downlink Packet Access technology, according to a report from ABI Research titled, "HSDPA-Mobile Broadband."Trial systems using the technology-which will bump typical transmission speeds up from 300 kilobits per second with UMTS technology to...
Pantech&Curitel, a South Korean manufacturing company comprising the mobile-phone operations of Curitel Communications Inc. and Pantech Group, announced ambitious plans to sell 10 million Pantech-branded mobile phones in the United States in 2005. However, industry watchers believe the company faces a major uphill climb...
Will ZigBee wireless technology have an effect on Bluetooth? Once envisioned as the solution to all personal-area wireless connectivity, the reality of rapidly growing multimedia file sizes, connectivity needs and reliability have proven to be challenges for Bluetooth as it attempts to redefine itself...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Although semiconductor revenue will rise 23 percent to $218 billion for 2004, the second half witnessed a significant downturn, according to a report by Gartner Inc."The sudden downturn in the semiconductor market in the final months of 2004 has been caused by vendor...
After several months of either denying or keeping mum over a pending realignment, Motorola Inc. finally let its new structure out of the bag. In the fashion of other big players like Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Nortel Networks Ltd., Motorola has organized its...
LINDON, Utah-Freescale Semiconductor Inc. said it has partnered with MaxStream Inc. to roll out ZigBee wireless products. ZigBee is a short-range technology that enables connections between wireless devices.MaxStream said it will introduce its XBee line of radio-frequency modules and incorporate them into Freescale's chipsets.
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Motorola Inc.'s former semiconductor subsidiary, became a free, independent company following the completion of the spin-off. As a result, Motorola issued its shareholders 0.110415 of a share of Freescale Semiconductor Class B common stock for each outstanding share of Motorola common...
Bayly Communications Inc. named Fernando Anaya as its sales representative for Latin America. Most recently, Anaya was sales manager for Motorola Inc. in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. CraniteWireless local area network security company Cranite Systems Inc. made two appointments to its executive...
TOKYO-NEC Electronic Corp. wants to make chips off its old block. The semiconductor unit of NEC Corp. said it will work together with its parent company to develop dual-mode chipsets that will combine W-CDMA with GSM/GPRS and EDGE technologies.The project, which is estimated to...
TOKYO-NEC Electronic Corp. wants to make chips off its old block.The semiconductor unit of NEC Corp said it will work together with the parent company to develop dual-mode chipsets that will combine W-CDMA with GSM/GPRS and EDGE technologies.The project, which is estimated to cost...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The GSM technology community must include location-based services in its strategic plans by next year or it will be in a disadvantaged position, according to Alan Varghese, principal analyst of semiconductor research at ABI Research. Varghese said GSM operators should mandate global...
LONDON-Operating system company Symbian Ltd. reported increasing sales and shipments for the third quarter, as well as plans to target mid-range devices rather than just high-end devices.The company said its licensees shipped a combined 3.7 million devices running the Symbian operating system in the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The board of directors of Motorola Inc. said it will distribute about 0.11 of a share of Freescale Semiconductor to Motorola shareholders tax free Dec. 2.The board described the share as class B common stock for each share of Motorola common stock and...
Four companies have come together to push a new technology called Video and Voice over Internet Protocol, which allows videoconference on demand.The companies include Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Radvision, Trinity Convergence and Metrowerks.Dramatizing how the technology will benefit the end user, the firms offer the...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Mobile communications vendors may soon find themselves in competition with WiMAX vendors for the same customers, according to a report from ABI Research. According to the report, "HSDPA-Mobile Broadband," the two camps started out on different paths but ended up at the...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Mobile communications vendors may soon find themselves in competition with WiMAX vendors for the same customers, according to a new report from ABI Research.According to the report, "HSDPA-Mobile Broadband," the two camps started out on different paths but ended up at the...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The GSM technology community must include location-based services in its strategic plans by next year or it will be in a disadvantaged position, according to Alan Varghese, principal analyst of semiconductor research at ABI Research.Varghese said GSM operators should mandate global positioning...
SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Corp. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. said they have joined the SD Card Association, whose semiconductor memory products are found in devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, laptop computers, digital cameras, digital audio players.The two players join companies such...
In spite of a slowdown in cell-phone sales, Samsung Electronics Co. still roared to a 46-percent profit compared with the same period last year. Much of its boost came from its chip division.But the result showed the company did not continue the overall momentum...
Before the spinoff of its chip business, Motorola Inc. often came across as an octopus-a many-sided giant. With Freescale Semiconductor Inc. now a standalone company, the wireless vendor still weighs heavy in the industry. This has been both boon and pain for the Schaumburg,...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-High Speed Download Packet Access technology stands to create a major shift in the cellular handset memory market when the technology is deployed in networks and handsets beginning next year, according to research from Allied Business Intelligence.The technology will put pressure on...
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...
