Semiconductor

Blaming weakened Asian currencies, Motorola Inc. warned investors that its first-quarter earnings will be well below expectations. The largest shortfall will come from the company’s semiconductor business, where the Consumer …

NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. has put its money where its mouth is to support Internet content providers, whose creativity and innovation it sees as critical for sustaining and expanding the …

Moffet, Larson & Johnson Moffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies’ Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration …

While market research firm Dataquest has diminished its previous 1998 forecast for the semiconductor industry by $15 billion in light of the Asian financial crisis, Harris Semiconductor has experienced a …

oseph B. Cahill Crain’s Chicago Business CHICAGO-As economies from South Korea to Indonesia convulse, China has become the last line of defense in Asia for Motorola Inc. The importance of …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Semiconductor announced earlier this month its new 800 MHz Interim Standard-95A chips for cellular handsets. With these new products, the company now has two chips for Qualcomm Inc.-based …

IBM Microelectronics Division and CommQuest Technologies Inc. last week announced a merger agreement, giving IBM an entrance into the wireless industry with CommQuest’s experience in semiconductors for wireless applications. The …

Motorola Inc. announced that it will use and distribute the full family of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java platform technologies, according to a licensing agreement the two entered. Under the terms …

Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its …

MILPITAS, Calif.-LSI Logic Corp. announced the availability of what it calls the industry’s first programmable single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution. The GSM baseband processor architecture contains the …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co. increased its production capacity with the purchase of Samsung Microwave Semiconductor Inc., the company said. Watkins historically produced semiconductor devices primarily for its own use, but …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service placed the ratings of the Republic of Korea and the publicly held foreign currency debt of its major companies under review for possible downgrade. Telecommunications carriers …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., reported higher sales and earnings for the fourth quarter of 1997 and for all of last year, but slightly below analysts’ expectations due to the …

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-In-Stat, a market research company serving the semiconductor and communications market, predicts that revenues from paging integrated circuits will peak at $511.3 million in 2000 and begin falling annually …

NEW YORK-Twenty years ago, her parents-both civil servants-gave Rosanne M. Cahn, chief economist of equities for Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, a cartoon she said aptly describes her profession. …

Astronet Corp. announced the promotions and additions of several employees. Dave Segbers was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing, from director of the same division. Max Ohyama was …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc. confirmed Monday its speculative grade ratings, all in the `B’ range, on $1.4 billion of debt and preferred stock either outstanding or pending issue by …

Motorola Inc. last week released its third quarter financial results, which detailed the lower-than-expected performance of the company that was forecast in December. Earnings per share, previously expected to be …

Southern California’s emergence as a burgeoning wireless hub was reinforced when yet another new telecom company, Kokusai Communications Systems Inc., opened its world headquarters last month in San Diego. Kokusai …

After three years in Motorola Inc.’s Information Systems Group and 23 years with the company, Frank Lloyd has returned to paging, his mind set on growing international markets and advancing …

An executive shuffle is taking place at Motorola Inc. In the company’s annual report for 1996, Hector Ruiz is titled executive vice president of Motorola Inc., and president of the …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. reported first-quarter earnings of $325 million, a level below the same quarter a year ago but ahead of analysts estimates. The announcement was made public April 7 …

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Contactless smart cards are becoming hot business. Motorola Inc. announced last month its plans to be a leader in the business of contactless smart cards. Meanwhile, the France-based Gemplus Group …

BERKELY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group announced it will provide semiconductor chips for several Motorola Inc. two-way messaging units, in development. The chip’s marked features include low-power consumption and …