Microelectronics is still seeing impressive growth according to the latest figures from Strategy Analytics.“The strong revenue reports which Strategy Analytics saw in April show continued compound semiconductor market expansion,” said Eric Higham, director of the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service.“Growth in...
Apple has overtaken Hewlett-Packard Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to become the world’s largest semiconductor buyer according to iSuppli.
The research outfit indicates that original equipment maker (OEM) Apple bought $17.5 billion worth of semiconductors in 2010, up 79.6% from the comparably paltry $9.7...
The Statesman | May 6, 2011 |Â Kirk Ladendorf
Altera Corp. said Thursday that it is setting up a semiconductor design center in Austin that it expects will employ "several hundred engineers" within the next few years.
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The telecommunications sector saw a 3,400 bump in jobs from April to May, but was still down 33,400 positions from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the wireless industry subsector, which lags a month behind in statistics, 400 more...
The Austin metropolitan area added 14,100 jobs, or 1.8% in the past year, giving the region the fifth best performing among the 50 largest U.S. metros, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The metropolitan region...
Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share.According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 billion, which is around...
The greater Los Angeles metro area continues to lose jobs in the telecommunications sector, according to new data from the Department of Labor. The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area is the only area in greater Los Angeles that has been adding jobs in the telecommunications...
Telecom jobs nationwide continued to inch down, while jobs in the semiconductor space continued to ramp up in April, a consistency seen throughout 2011.Nationwide, nonfarm payroll employment increased by 244,000 positions in April, but the unemployment rate inched up to 9%, the U.S. Bureau...
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate will launch a 30-day pilot in the New Orleans area in partnership with law enforcement and emergency management agencies in the region to test the latest portable, multi-band radio technology—which will allow police...
Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to build a robot or system design based on the firm’s latest sensor development kit. In other words, a walking robot...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.2010 was a good year for start-ups seeking money. More than $1.2 billion (13% higher...
The Austin metropolitan area added 13,900 jobs in the past year, giving it a spot in the top 10 best performing metro areas, according to information from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The ...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Forget about chutzpah … the tech sector in Israel has two advantages – a skilled...
British chip firm ARM Holdings has been granted a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise for its contributions to innovation as the world's leading supplier of low power, high performance semiconductor IP.Affectionately known as the “British Chippie” by the U.K.'s semiconductor press, ARM, based in...
Texas Instruments Inc. has blamed the Japanese earthquake for its disappointing financial results, which came in below analyst estimates.
The chipmaker disclosed first-quarter revenue of $3.39 billion, down from $3.525 billion last quarter. It also posted net income of $666 million ...
April 18 2011 - 6:52 pm ET | Sylvie Barak | RCR Wireless News
Texas Instruments Inc has blamed the Japanese earthquake for its disappointing financial results, which came in below analyst estimates.
The chipmaker disclosed first-quarter revenue of $3.39 billion, down from $3.525 billion last...
Texas Instruments Inc has blamed the Japanese earthquake for its disappointing financial results, which came in below analyst estimates.The chipmaker disclosed first-quarter revenue of $3.39 billion, down from $3.525 billion last quarter. It also posted net income of $666 million and earnings per share...
The chips are certainly not down for the semiconductor industry, with market research firm Gartner announcing the total market was up 30% ($70.7 billion) in 2010, totaling almost $300 billion.
Santa Clara based chip maker Intel topped the market for the 19th consecutive year, despite a...
Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced a partnership with Japan’s Fuji Electric Systems Company Ltd. to create an insulated-gate bipolar transistor and other offerings for electric cars. Customer feedback will drive Freescale’s new product line, which will be marketed to the...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced it will be buying National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. The two firms have signed “a definitive agreement.”The move combines TI with its previously largest...
Jobs in the computer and electronics products sector continued to trend upward in February, according to information released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Positions in the telecommunications space continued to trend downward year over year.The computer sector saw 23,900 jobs added from...
AUSTIN, Texas-Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale) and Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced this week that the catastrophic earthquake in Japan has disrupted manufacturing operations for both companies, which have facilities in Japan.
Soon after the disaster, prices of semiconductors for...
Qualcomm Inc. says it does not foresee any significant impact to its semiconductor supply chain after last week’s earthquake in Japan and says it shouldn’t have a problem in continuing to supply product to its customers.
Austin American Statement | March 14, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf
Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday that one of its three semiconductor manufacturing operations in Japan suffered "substantial damage" from last week's massive earthquake and that it will affect the company's revenue in the first and...
