SANTA CLARA, Calif. -National Semiconductor Corp. said it will cut 500 jobs from the company's worldwide 10,000 workforce as part of its plan to save cost and reach profitability."The company will realign some manufacturing, product development and support personnel as part of its overall...
CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson flexed its muscles within and outside the 3GSM Congress with a series of announcements from interoperability testing to deals with carriers and content providers as well as a former semiconductor partner.The Swedish vendor signed a contract to supply UMTS gear to...
SAN JOSE-The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization said 2002 shipments of digital signal processors reached its highest monthly figure in two years with a net revenue growth of 14.1 percent to $4.85 billion."TI continues to be the dominant company in DSP, increasing their market...
PARAMUS, N.J.-Penton Media Inc. said Intel Corp.'s Gadi Singer and Philips Electronics' Paul Marino will give the keynote addresses at the 2003 Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo later this month in San Jose, Calif. Singer is vice president of the wireless communications and...
SAN DIEGO-Ethertronics is entering the Chinese market via a sales agreement with King Horn Enterprise, a semiconductor ASIC distributor with offices in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, through which King Horn will market Ethertronics' TrueWave internal antenna family in China and Hong Kong."We pride...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has thrown its support behind the OMAPI standard initiative announced by STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments last December to boost open standards for 2.5-generation and third-generation mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other portable and multimedia products."By developing common interfaces, the semiconductor...
RA'ANANA, Israel-Emblaze Semiconductor and RFWaves said they have entered into a collaboration to develop advanced wireless multimedia application platforms. The two entities debuted a mobile digital wireless video baby monitor at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month.
BOSTON-SiGe Semiconductor said it has entered an agreement with IBM under which it will be granted assignments and licenses to intellectual property associated with IBM power amplifier products. Separately, SiGe will also acquire certain design and test equipment from IBM and will house it...
TOKYO-Worldwide sales of chipmaking gear dropped 37.4 percent in November from a month earlier to $1.27 billion, according to the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International.The claim contradicts some signals that a rebound is in the offing.On a cheerful note, the November report signifies a...
TOKYO-Worldwide sales of chipmaking gear dropped 37.4 percent in November from a month earlier to US$1.27 billion, according to the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International.The claim contradicts some signals that a rebound is in the offing.On a cheerful note, the November report signifies a...
TOKYO-Sales of Japanese chips may rise to 17.3 percent from April 2002 to April '03 $9.06 billion, according to the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan. "Orders are showing that with the rapid development of China, the semiconductor equipment industry can expect a boost from...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. announced an upbeat fourth-quarter result with a net income of $1 billion, or 16 cents per share, beating an optimistic market forecast. Last year the company posted $504 million or 7 cents per share net income.Its revenue jumped to $7.2 billion...
GENEVA-STMicroelectronics said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with SpaceBridge Semiconductor to develop a family of broadband wireless modem chips and two-way set top box solutions."The jointly-developed technology will allow providers to rapidly deploy high capacity broadband set-top box solutions, enabling broadband services...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Global semiconductor sales hit $12.68 billion for the month of November, slightly up from the $12.51 billion reported in October, and well above the year-ago's $10.6 billion, according the Semiconductor Industry Association."The November sales of the global chip industry underscore the healthy...
SEOUL, South Korea-Hanaro Telecom Inc., South Korea's second-largest broadband and fixed-line carrier, announced it would take over its rival Korea Thrunet Co., signaling a major change in the fast-evolving high-speed Internet access market.Hanaro held a board of directors' meeting early Monday and finalized the...
Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., with the goal of turning a profit in its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., whose goal is to turn on profit its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said they...
NEW YORK-J.P. Morgan has downgraded three top semiconductor vendors, including Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments, owing to slow uptake of wireless products.In the eyes of the brokerage firm, Intel and AMD ratings dropped to "underweight," while Intel fell to "neutral."...
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector released the MC72000, an advanced integrated Bluetooth radio solution for wireless devices.The new solution reportedly increases radio operating ranges while decreasing interference from other devices, including microwave ovens, 802.11 networks, cordless phones and other Bluetooth-enabled devices operating in the...
NEW YORK-Semiconductor companies like National Semiconductor Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. witnessed stock declines on the downgrade handed out by Morgan Stanley to that sector.In a research note, Morgan Stanley analyst Edelstone downgraded the sector to "in-line" from "attractive", raising doubts about recent...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Union has given its nod to the semiconductor joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp, making the world's second largest chipmaker.According to the JV, which will be known as Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi will own 55 percent while Mitsubishi...
Motorola Inc. claims it is the only company that has full type approval certification for its wireless reference designs for handhelds. Texas Instruments disagrees.Pointing to its I.250 platform for GPRS as a key example, Motorola said it has moved ahead of the pack with...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. and Samsung Semiconductor Inc. announced they teamed to create a concept design for devices using Microsoft's Pocket PC personal digital assistant operating system, a move the companies said will dramatically lower costs and reduce product development time for device manufacturers licensing...
NEW YORK-Intel Corp and five other wireless chip makers suffered downgrades from Merrill Lynch to sell from neutral.The other companies include Analog Devices Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corp., Conexant Systems Inc., PMC-Sierra Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp.The investment bank wrote that the chipmakers' stocks...
