After months of struggling financially and falling behind technologically, Motorola Inc. stands to make its mark as the first handset manufacturer to provide Java-enabled mobile phones.The company entered an agreement with Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Lutris Technologies Corp. to bundle Lutris' forthcoming Enhydra 3.5 Open...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. announced it will sell its UltraRF semiconductor division to Cree Inc.The deal calls for Cree to purchase UltraRF for about 908,000 shares of its common stock and $30 million in cash.The transaction is expected to close early next year.
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless networking provider Radiata Inc. and ShareWave Inc., a provider of semiconductor technology for multimedia-capable wireless home networks, formalized a partnership to provide a commercially available 802.11a wireless networking solution expected to support the full spectrum of the 802.11a standard..Radiata said its...
In a move that the company said would strengthen its New World strategy and its ability to deliver next-generation wireless networks using the IEEE 802.11a standard, Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to purchase Radiata Inc., a supplier of chipsets for high-speed wireless networks using the...
NEW YORK-Tokyo-based NEC Corp. has ambitious expansion plans for its wireless handsets and infrastructure business, but the plans do not target North America, said Koji Nishigaki, president.In Asia, the company sees a big opportunity to supply third-generation mobile networks and terminals. In Europe, it...
NEW YORK-Transmeta Corp. and its Crusoe line of processors received enthusiastic applause from investors as the San Francisco company went public Nov. 7.The 13 million share initial public offering, lead managed by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, priced at $21 each, well above the $16-$18...
NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it.By contrast, the 5 GHz band is wide open territory. The HiperLAN2 Global Forum is at work...
NEW TRIPOLI, Pa.-Revenues for semiconductor processing equipment will rise 76 percent this year and another 46 percent next year, according to a new report.The report, published by market research company The Information Network, is titled "The Global Market for Equipment and Material for IC...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Five Motorola Inc. employees and one executive from Cellport Systems Inc. in Boulder, Colo., were killed in the crash of Singapore Airlines' flight SQ006 in Taipei, Taiwan, last week.Neo Lee Keow, Jasmine Lim Lay Har and Tan Yip Thong, designers with Motorola's Singapore...
BEIJING-Amiosonic's new range of GSM mobile phones will be able to interoperate with Lucent Technologies Inc.'s GSM network infrastructure under a deal announced by the two companies.Mobile operators in China will now have an end-to-end solution starting next year, the companies said.The agreement may...
SINGAPORE-The once sleepy telecommunications market in technology-centric Taiwan is finally stirring from its slumber.Having taken a back seat to the country's more well-known semiconductor industry until now, Taiwan's mobile-phone industry has now become one of the fastest-growing sectors in Taiwan, if not all of...
TOKYO-Japanese vendors are in the final stages of developing third-generation (3G) terminals. Japanese 3G services are scheduled to be launched earlier than any other country in May 2001 by NTT DoCoMo, followed by J-Phone, the mobile business of Japan Telecom and the newly merged...
NEW YORK-The $41.6 billion bid by Deutsche Telekom AG for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. was the largest merger announced last quarter and the second-largest during the first nine months of this year, Mergerstat L.P., Los Angeles, reported.The semiconductor sector, with mergers totaling $49.5 billion, led...
Motorola Inc. stunned investors and analysts last week, lowering its fourth-quarter and 2001 earnings estimates despite reporting third-quarter earnings that mostly fell in line with expectations. Upon release of the poor financial outlook on Wednesday, the company's stock tumbled nearly 18 percent to $21.75...
Sygate TechnologiesInternet security and access management solutions provider Sygate Technologies Inc. introduced its OneNIC Internet Sharing Solution through the release of the newest version of its flagship software product, Sygate Home Network 4.0 Internet access sharing software. Sygate said the OneNIC technology is designed...
Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market as early as mid-1999.Those early predictions seemed believable at the time. Who would not...
MUNICH, Germany-U.S. chip manufacturer Amtel Corp. plans to take over Siemens AG's North Tyneside semiconductor factory in northeastern England, with plans to supply Siemens with specific semiconductor products and help secure future availability of flash memory chips.Siemens opened the factory in 1995, but closed...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
NEW YORK-Dallas-based Texas Instruments has begun making samples of its new Bluetooth chipset available and will begin shipping them by year-end, Christian Dupont, general manager of the short-distance wireless unit, said.Developed by Butterfly VLSI Ltd., an Israeli company TI acquired early last year, the...
BEIJING-The Tianjin, China, municipal government announced approval of Motorola Inc.'s planned $1.9 billion investment for semiconductor manufacturing and telecommunications facilities in China.Motorola said the investment will be focused on two sites-the Motorola Tianjin Integrated Semiconductor Manufacturing Complex and the Motorola Asia Telecommunication Product Manufacturing...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Parthus Technologies plc, a semiconductor developer, launched NavStream, a global positioning system platform for Internet-enabled mobile devices, the company announced.Parthus said NavStream is capable of location accuracy of less than five meters in about 10 seconds, anywhere in the world.
IRVINE, Calif.-Intersil Corp., a semiconductor supplier, said it signed a letter of intent to acquire SiCom Inc. for 3.7 million shares of class A common stock.SiCom manufactures broadband modem silicon application specific standard parts and board level products for the fixed wireless infrastructure and...
NEW YORK-Venture-capital investments in American telecommunications and wireless companies during the first six months of this year have surpassed the total invested in this sector during all of 1998 and 1999 combined.During the second quarter of 2000, venture-capital funding in telecom/wireless reached $5.7 billion,...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. finalized its acquisition of analog semiconductor developer Burr-Brown Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction.TI will issue 1.3 shares of its common stock for each outstanding share of Burr-Brown common stock. TI said it expects to issue approximately 88 million shares for the...
