Semiconductor

VLSI Technology Inc. said it received a major order from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. for its OneCT single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution. The order is valued at $19 …

SnapTrack Inc. last week announced a strategic partnership with Motorola Inc. under which it will license its personal location system to Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. Motorola will use SnapTrack’s technology …

After coming off one of its worst years in history, the semiconductor industry continues to show signs of recovery. The industry finished last year with total sales of $125.6 billion, …

Analysts last week hoped Motorola Inc. would shed some light in its earnings conference call on whether it will need to raise more money or take additional charges to cover …

NEW YORK-Harris Corp. announced it is repositioning itself to become a pure communications equipment company and will spin off its Lanier Worldwide subsidiary to its stockholders, creating two separate companies-communications …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Oki Semiconductor said it is taking steps to expand and strengthen its organization in Sunnyvale, Calif. As part of the expansion, Oki Semiconductor’s former general manager of the LSI …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Motorola Inc.’s Semiconductor Products Sector announced a $5 million grant to establish the Motorola DigitalDNA Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. The DigitalDNA Laboratory will focus …

AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom’s wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom’s WLL products …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it changed the operating segments it uses to report financial figures to coincide with organizational changes in its communications equipment business. Research and development expenditures now …

VLSI Technology Inc. announced its board of directors adopted a new shareholder rights agreement and bylaw amendments to fend off a hostile bid from Royal Philips Electronics. Philips launched the …

Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace. Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies …

EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.-A new chip technology developed by IBM Corp. could lead to smaller electronic devices, including cellular phones and personal computers, said the company. The semiconductor technology IBM developed …

LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-COM announced the launch of its online fab tour, a computer animated tour created by Show & Tell Inc. that illustrates and explains the processing, assembly, packaging and testing …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co.’s unaudited results for 1998 showed revenue of $212.2 million, down from $291.3 million reported in revenue for 1997. The company experienced a net loss for the …

NEW YORK-Wave Systems Corp., San Jose, Calif., may possess some important answers to questions wireless carriers have about reducing customer-service costs, promoting prepaid calling and data communications and capitalizing on …

NEW YORK-Beware would-be smart card hackers, Schlumberger Test and Transactions, San Jose, Calif., has developed ‘SiShell’, a process that renders the chip likely to self-destruct if someone tampers with it. …

NEW YORK-Perception equals reality for those who believe federal class-action securities fraud cases are filed almost daily against publicly traded companies. Last year’s tally of 235 companies named as defendants …

BellSouth Cellular Corp. announced it will invest in designing software-defined radio technology, a move that could give momentum to the rest of the wireless industry to change the way handsets …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. reported fourth-quarter revenues of $137.9 million, an increase of 5.4 percent from third-quarter 1998, revenues of $130.8 million and a decrease of 28.5 percent from …

Zetron Zetron Inc. launched the Model Z907 PCS Fault Finder, which provides fast notification of power amplifier and antenna problems at personal communications services sites. The PCS Fault Finder monitors …

Motorola Inc. said it expects to meet Wall Street’s earnings expectations for the first quarter, though it remains cautious in light of last week’s currency devaluation in Brazil and the …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc. is reviewing $400 million in Hyundai Semiconductor America debt for possible downgrade because merger talks between HSA and LG Semicon Co. Ltd. hit an impasse …

M/A-Com M/A-COM, a division of AMP Inc., announced a new family of DC-2 GHz GaAs Field Effect Transistor Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit digital attenuators with integral Application Specific Integrated Circuit …

At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Company announced it completed the repurchase of 3,500,000 shares authorized by its board of directors. The repurchased shares are also retired, leaving 6,547,687 current outstanding shares. Watkins-Johnson …