WASHINGTON-The high-tech industry applauded the resolution of a trade dispute between the United States and China over the latter's semiconductor tax. "As the world's two largest markets for telecommunications equipment and services, it is important that industry and government from both sides...
WASHINGTON-The high-tech industry applauded the resolution of a trade dispute between the United States and China over the latter's semiconductor tax. "As the world's two largest markets for telecommunications equipment and services, it is important that industry and government from both sides...
IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. said it has signed an agreement to acquire Zyray Wireless Inc. Zyray makes a semiconductor product called Spinnerchip for the baseband of third-generation mobile phones."Pairing the Spinnerchip technology with Broadcom's single-chip EDGE/GPRS/GSM and GPRS/GSM baseband processors enables two-chip W-CDMA multi-mode phones...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Two reports confirm the growing optimism about the semiconductor market. Research Group Gartner said general global chip sales will grow 25 percent this years and 15 percent in 2005. In another study, IDC said it anticipates base station chip sales to snag...
WOBURN, Mass.-Wireless semiconductor company Skyworks Solutions Inc. said licensing rights for its patented Selectable Mode Vocoder technology are immediately available to be incorporated into CDMA mobile handset applications.SMV is capable of increasing subscriber capacity by up to 75 percent, while improving the quality of...
For Qualcomm Inc., CDMA is a double-edged sword.Although the company has enjoyed a significant amount of prosperity in its efforts to expand the CDMA industry, its success seems to cut both ways as Qualcomm is now in the midst of a chip shortage due...
While waiting to pry loose of Motorola Inc. later this year, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. will be walking the path of other companies like Agere Systems Inc. and Infineon Technologies Inc., which were previously parts of bigger behemoths.These three companies want to exercise the same...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. said its second fiscal quarter 2004 results reflect the highest order and revenue levels of the past three years.Orders for the company's Test and Measurement division were up 23 percent from a year ago at $745 million. Agilent said...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. has put its semiconductor business on track to become a separate, publicly owned company by announcing its chairman and chief executive officer.Michel Mayer is the new helmsman at Freescale Semiconductor. He was most recently the general manager of IBM Microelectronics, which...
Other than worries among chipmakers over Cisco System Inc.'s quarterly earnings, the sector continues to purr with good news. However, some analysts caution against overheating with inventory overload.Chipmakers that supply Cisco products suffered slides in their stock prices when Cisco announced double-digit profits that...
Barely two years after entering the market, Microsoft Corp. said it is quitting the Wi-Fi space, otherwise known as 802.11b. "After careful evaluation, the Microsoft hardware group has decided to scale back its broadband hardware and networking business," a representative was quoted as saying....
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...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Royal Philips Electronics said it joined the Symbian Platinum Program, which the semiconductor maker said is part of its commitment to mobile multimedia.Philip's offerings include solutions that support mobile multimedia features, such as audio, video, imaging and connectivity applications; color (touch) screens;...
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...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The CellularRAM specification co-development team has welcomed Renesas technology to its fold of chipmakers in the Asian market. Other members include Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Infineon and Micron Technology Inc.The team works in markets such as China, Japan, India, Singapore and the Philippines....
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...
While market watchers sounded their disapproval of Nokia Corp.'s handset sales in the first quarter, the Finnish vendor witnessed sound activities in its infrastructure business, including a 16-percent increase in net sales to $1.68 billion, compared with $1.4 billion in the year-ago period. Meanwhile...
Samsung Electronics set records in its operating and net profits as it unveiled its first-quarter results for the year.But the good news sent the company's stock down 3 percent over jitters about a possible slow second quarter.The mobile phone and semiconductor giant said it...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. brought more cheer to the semiconductor industry with a first-quarter result featuring higher profits, revenue and sales in line with Wall Street expectations.The chipmaker reported net income of $367 million, or 21 cents a share, an increase of 214 percent...
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...
