Financial Times reporting that Qualcomm director has approached SoftBank and other potential buyers
Paul Jacobs, former executive chairman of the Qualcomm Board of Directors and son of company founder Irwin Jacobs, is reportedly looking to sell the San Diego, Calif.-based silicon and R&D giant. The...
Qualcomm shareholders meeting pushed back to April 5
Qualcomm shareholders were supposed to meet today to decide whether to maintain the current composition of the board or elect six members, a majority, nominated by Broadcom, which is attempting a hostile takeover of the San Diego-based...
Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm hinges on NXP deal; Qualcomm raises offer for NXP to $44 billion
After extending its tender offer to NXP shareholders earlier this month, Qualcomm has now increased its offer on the company to $44 billion from $38 billion or $127.50 per...
The San Diego, Calif.-area is home to numerous nonprofits engaged in a wide range of charitable activities. But Mission Edge is different; the organization, itself a nonprofit, provides professional services like accounting, payroll, OSHA compliance and human resources to other nonprofits so they can...
Acquisition of NXP will bolster Qualcomm portfolio around autonomous driving and industrial IoT
Pending regulatory and closing machinations, San Diego-based Qualcomm announced today it will pay $39 billion to acquire Dutch semiconductor manufacturer NXP. Qualcomm is a leader in chips for smartphones and other wireless communications...
International investment to use IoT to connect major world hub
WASHINGTON – Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors announced on March 27 it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Digital China Holdings, an IT services company, and B.M. Holding Group, a real estate development firm, with...
Mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets require powerful and innovative semiconductor chips far superior to those found in typical consumer electronics products. These chips are now in high demand because
Qualcomm is looking to accelerate the semiconductor battle. Ranked third in Gartner’s list of top semiconductor vendors (by revenue), Qualcomm is aiming even higher. “We grew while Intel and Samsung fell,” said Rafael Steinhauser, senior vice president and Latin American president for Qualcomm during...
The mobility, enterprise and consumer electronics industries are being funda¬mentally changed by a new type of business model called the “superstack.” Accenture defines a superstack
Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom's Wi-Fi initiatives. While this was clearly one of the event’s top stories, McGregor’s comments about hiring and investing caught our attention as well.
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Chip makers seem to be weighing in on the Wi-Fi vs 3G enabled discussion when it comes to tablets, with some starting to question whether consumers actually want another cellular-connected device to add to their monthly bills.Freescale Semiconductor’s tablet marketing lead Robert Thompson led...
July employment numbers in the telecommunications and computer and electronic products sectors ticked up by 2,700 and 2,500 positions respectively, from the previous month, according to figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, year-over-year figures still lag in the telecom industry....
Venture-capital investments in the mobile sector are soaring, led by media and applications, commerce and payments and healthcare, according to a new report from Rutberg & Co.VC investment in mobile is at the largest level ($3 billion in the first half of the year)...
Fairchild Semiconductor today announced the availability of its long vaunted mobile speaker amplifier, the FAB1200 stereo as well as the FAB2200 audio subsystem with stereo Class-G headphone amplifier and 1.2W Class-D mono speaker amplifier. The little device features a charge pump which generates a...
The Austin metropolitan area added 14,100 jobs in the past year ending in May, giving the region the fourth best performing among the 50 largest U.S. metros at 1.8% change in growth, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau...
Telecommunications jobs continued to trend downward in June, with 869,900 telecom positions nationwide, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. The wireless sector reported 2,000 fewer positions from a year ago. That data, which lags a month behind overall statistics, showed...
A teardown of HTC Corp.'s (HTCFX) ThunderBolt highlights the expense behind LTE phones, according to the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. IHS said the ThunderBolt carries the highest bill of materials of any phone it has ever torn apart.With a bill of materials...
Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has acquired Netarx, Michigan-based solution provider. Netarx provides IT professional services including managed services, data center, collaboration, and infrastructure design solutions to customers throughout the Great Lakes and Arizona. Read full press release here....
Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) announced that its subsidiaries including Nortel Networks Limited (NNL), Nortel Networks Inc. and Nortel Networks U.K. Limited have completed a successful and final auction of all of Nortel's remaining patents and patent applications. After an auction that spanned days, a...
Huawei releases Honeycomb tabletChinese vendor Huawei took the wraps off its mysterious HD MediaPad this week, giving CommunicAsia goers a hands on look at the 7-inch Android Honeycomb device, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. Stay tuned to catch a more in...
CML Microsystems Plc , a mixed-signal semiconductor company headquartered close to London, England, has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder products from Spirit Corp, a Moscow based software company. CML originally licensed RALCWI from Spirit a few years ago to...
Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) recently announced a new generation multi-core platform called the Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series and is billing it as the chip-maker’s biggest draw in several years.The new product platform aims to increase positioning in the networking field and is based on a...
GlobalFoundries has fired its top tier management this morning, effective immediately, replacing the CEO, COO and chairman of the board with appointees of the Abu Dhabi government investment arm ATIC.“The board of directors of GlobalFoundries – along with its majority shareholder, the Advanced Technology...
Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge's San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore engineering services operations will...
