PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
TOKYO-Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. and ST Assembly Test Services developed an RF chip package and production test solution with Bluetooth specifications for the wireless market. "This Bluetooth device uses the process, which can be commercially produced at a competitive price," said Kaoru...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Allgon Mobile Communications and Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector signed a letter of intent to cooperate in the development of antenna systems for third-generation wireless multimedia terminals.Allgon's Digitally Controlled Antenna concept will use RF MEMS technology from Motorola, designed to give superior transmission...
SAN DIEGO - Meltronix Inc., a semiconductor interconnect company serving wireless Internet, broadband communications and Internet equipment markets, launched a Bluetooth wireless technology business development program to target relationships with Bluetooth industry consortium companies."With our success in expanding our business with Internet equipment and...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will invest $700 million during the next five years to jointly develop manufacturing technologies for future generations of integrated circuits targeted at high-growth communications markets.As part of the joint development activities, the companies will...
PHOENIX-Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector and Atmel Corp. have agreed to provide a reliable supply of radio-frequency Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor technology for wireless applications.The licensing agreement calls for Motorola to share its BiCMOS technology with Atmel, enabling Atmel to provide wireless original...
NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive.The daily whipsawing of the Nasdaq, where the stocks of many high technology companies trade, may obscure but does not...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Worldwide semiconductor sales reached a record high of $16.6 billion in June, a 48-percent increase from the $11.2 billion in sales for June 1999, and a 5.2-percent increase over May 2000 numbers, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association."June's numbers exceeded our expectations...
The Personal Communications Industry Association made another move designed to evolve the association into one that serves the global mobile Internet market.PCIA last week announced the PCIA Global Initiative, a new PCIA division designed to provide consumer and market data for the mobile Internet...
SAN DIEGO-Intellectual property provider ARM and PacketVideo Corp. announced a collaboration to integrate PacketVideo's wireless video decode software with ARM's microprocessor core in an attempt to help accelerate the deployment of wireless multi-media services and applications."The two companies are collaborating closely to provide systems...
TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...
Motorola Inc. posted net income of $515 million on sales of $9.25 billion in the second quarter, up from $269 million on $7.59 billion a year earlier.Earnings per share rose by 10 cents, to 23 cents, compared with the year-ago quarter. Net margins on...
TORONTO-Embedded Linux system software developer Lineo Inc. said it will combine its Embedix Linux software with Hitachi Semiconductor Inc.'s SuperH RISC processor, enabling manufacturers to develop devices and technologies for wireless handhelds and car information systems.Lineo and Hitachi said the collaboration will jointly help...
NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association's "Xtreme Wireless" conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for high-speed fixed wireless broadband service.Keynote speaker and Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group President Tim...
Sunday CommunicationsSunday Communications Ltd. announced that Craig Ehrlich, currently group managing director and chief executive officer, will give up his CEO duties. He will continue as group managing director, focusing on the company's regional expansion program. Ehrlich also will continue as the company's principal...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached a record high of $15.2 billion in April, increasing 35.6 percent from the $11.2 billion reported for the same time last year, the Semiconductor Industry Association said."Coupled with strong PC sales, industry growth is being driven by...
When most people in the United States hear the name "Hyundai," they think of a car. But the reach of the Hyundai organization is extensive, and for the past six months, its electronics subsidiary has been readying itself to become an influential-and recognized-player in...
Seagull Inc., a provider of e-business solutions for Windows and Web-based systems, extended its reach into the wireless realm last week with the introduction of its server-based Wireless-to-Host Solution.For 10 years, Seagull has offered Web-to-Host and Windows-to-Host solutions, basically providing software that allows enterprises...
The world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., said it plans to invest billions to help ease a global shortage of flash memory chips used in mobile phones.Intel said about 45 percent of its first billion flash memory chips were sold to cellular-device makers and...
MANASSAS, Va.-Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. signed an agreement to create a new semiconductor company, FlashVision L.L.C., to produce advanced flash memory using fabrication space at Dominion Semiconductor in Manassas, Va.Under the strategic joint venture, the companies plan to spend approximately $700 million to...
FREMONT, Calif.-Consumers are accustomed to the sleek and small handsets available in the market today. But as the data revolution unfolds, the components needed to facilitate new functions threaten to increase the size of handsets.Intarsia Corp., a radio-frequency technology integrator, believes it has come...
EDINBURGH, Scotland-Motorola Inc. announced plans to acquire a manufacturing site in Dunfermline, Scotland, for its European semiconductor operations.The facility, currently owned by Hyundai, is expected to employ 1,350 people and will produce the company's DigitalDNA solutions, based on 8-inch wafers and utilizing submicron technology...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Metricom Inc. and National Semiconductor entered a strategic alliance to develop Metricom's Ricochet modem technology for the information appliance market.National will integrate Ricochet technology into its information appliance reference designs, such as the Geode and WebPad wireless Internet access devices, to develop...
