SAN BRUNO, Calif.—Broadband wireless company IPWireless Inc. announced it will partner with Flextronics Semiconductor to develop and manufacture the IPWireless System on a Chip (SoC)."The SoC design will open the door for mobile hardware manufacturers to integrate our technology into existing and future mobile...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—AMD said it has unveiled a new mobile Athlon XP processor that delivers high performance and requires low power to notebooks."The launch of the mobile AMD Athlon XP processors based on 0.13 micron technology on Socket A consolidates the company's position in the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. beat analyst expectations and reported a net loss for ongoing operations, excluding special items, for the first quarter ended March 30, of $174 million, or 8 cents per share. Analysts predicted a loss of between 11 cents and 14 cents per...
PARIS—Three semiconductor companies announced they would forge a US$1.4 billion alliance to develop new chips with a view to cutting costs and defining standards for the industry.The companies, Motorola of the United States, STMicroelectronics of France and Philips of the Netherlands, plan to unveil...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Technology firm DSP Group announced it will merge its digital signal processing subsidiary, Ceva Inc., with wireless platform licensing company Parthus Technologies plc.The new combined company will be called ParthusCeva Inc."The merger of our two companies will create what we believe to be...
LONDON—Wireless platform licensing company Parthus Technologies plc announced it sold its NavStream GPS location-based services platform to the semiconductor division of Samsung Electronics.
LONDON—Although global computer chip sales are down sharply form a year ago, year-on-year comparisons are improving, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, commenting on numbers recently released by the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) and the European Electronic component Manufacturers' Association (EECA).For example, although...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB and Texas Instruments have signed an agreement to make reference designs for GPRS and 3G platforms based on TI's silicon technology as an extension of a memorandum of understanding both companies signed last September."Ericsson will offer third-generation mobile reference design platforms...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Xtreme Spectrum Inc. said it demonstrated streaming video applications using ultra-wideband technology.The demonstration used four DVD players broadcasting four different MPEG-2 video streams running at 10 megabits per second to four different displays across a room using a single UWB connection.The company...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—UltraRF Inc. announced at the Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo this week that it has appointed Arrow Electronics Inc. to distribute its RF power semiconductor products in North America. "Arrow's established leadership in electronic distribution, coupled with UltraRF's line of RF...
CANNES, France—Sasken announced this week at the 3GSM World Congress that its wideband CDMA protocol stack software has been optimized to work on Intel Corp.'s semiconductor platform."Working with Intel is an important step toward meeting our goal in becoming the world's leading independent vendor...
LONDON—Symbian announced six semiconductor companies have joined its Semiconductor Partner Programme, showing support for Symbian OS and ARM core-based chipsets.The six new partners—Agilent Technologies; Epson; Parthus; Philips Semiconductors; Samsung and STMicroelectronics—join existing partners ARM; Intel; Motorola SPS; Qualcomm CDMA Technologies and Texas Instruments. Symbian...
AUSTIN, Texas—Advanced Micro Devices said it plans to acquire chipmaker Alchemy Semiconductor by the end of the first quarter of this year. The companies have disclosed the financial terms of the deal.Alchemy makes chips for personal digital assistants and MP3 players."By joining forces, AMD...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.—TelASIC Communications announced it has completed a $22.5 million initial round of financing.The semiconductor company plans to develop cost-effective RF and analog mixed signal solutions for advanced wireless applications. "I decided to lead this company because of the leading-edge product capability, experienced...
TOKYO—Japanese vendor Matsushita Electric Industrial set up a new semiconductor manufacturing company in China, the firm announced on 31 January.The new firm, called Suzhou Matsushita Semiconductor, is located in Jiangsu Province and will initially provide discrete semiconductors for manufacturers in China, but Matsushita is...
TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer, on 28 January announced it filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, claiming that the Korean company and three U.S. subsidiaries of Samsung infringed Matsushita's patents covering dynamic RAM (DRAM) and related technologies.The file was actually brought...
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel—Tower Semiconductor said it completed its offering of securities units in Israel, resulting in gross proceeds of US$23.2 million. The company will use the money for its Fab 2 project.The offering was oversubscribed by 205 percent with the purchase of nearly 1.13...
SCHAUMBERG, Illinois, United States—Motorola reported significant, but not surprising, losses for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 December, 2001, a year Christopher Galvin, Motorola chairman and chief executive officer, said "will go down in history" as one of the most difficult years for...
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel—Tower Semiconductor said it received a permit from the Israeli Securities Authority to publish a prospectus in Israel. The price of each security will be determined by a tender to be held on 22 January subject to a minimum price of about...
HONG KONG—Motorola said it plans to cut between 700 and 800 semiconductor jobs at its test and assembly facility in Hong Kong and move productions to its plants in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Chinese port city of Tianjin.The cut is part of the...
WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won't be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness persisting here and abroad, the industry is not totally in control of its future....
Shortly after Motorola Inc. reconfirmed its guidance for fourth-quarter sales and revealed another 9,400 jobs will be eliminated during the next year, the company boldly predicted it will increase its share of the global handset market from approximately 15 percent to 25 percent over...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-Semiconductor provider Conexant Systems Inc. made a series of major announcements, including a merger with Alpha Industries Inc., the separation of its business into three companies and improved sales for the first quarter.Conexant said it would merge with Alpha, which provides radio-frequency...
LONDON—NEC announced it will close a semiconductor plant in Scotland, eliminating 1,260 jobs.The Livingston, West Lothian, plant closure is blamed on the widespread downturn in demand for cellular phone systems. The plant will cease operation in April 2002.
