Samsung has diversified its suppliers of UMTS baseband chips to include Infineon Technologies AG, leaving the world's second-largest handset vendor less dependent on Qualcomm Inc., Samsung confirmed."This is no surprise," said Will Strauss, principal at Forward Concepts, which tracks the mobile chip market. "Samsung...
As Motorola Inc.'s growth sharply contracted between 2006 and 2007, four Chinese handset vendors were among the fastest growing in the business, although at markedly lower volumes.The finding is one of many disparate conclusions drawn in a new study from Forward Concepts that examined...
Pesky Wall Street.No matter how well you perform, the stock market - understandably, because it reflects investors' view of future prospects - is all about "what's next"?Qualcomm Inc., riding a wave of global demand for W-CDMA-enabled handsets - and strong performances by Samsung Electronics...
Apple Inc. reported revenue of $7.5 billion and net profit over $1 billion in its second fiscal quarter, with revenue beating expectations. That's up from revenue of $5.3 billion and net profit of $770 million in the year-ago quarter.The company's iPhone sales for the...
NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics will combine their wireless businesses to compete in a cutthroat environment for chip makers. The two companies said in a statement they would aim to complete the move by the third quarter, subject to regulatory review and "consultations" with labor...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.Aperto: Quicksilver Ventures led a $20 million equity round of funding into Aperto Networks, which makes WiMAX base stations...
Add another voice to the growing chorus of conservative growth forecasts for global handset sales this year. IMS Research last week forecast less than 6% growth, near the low-end of recent estimates by various parties and in contrast to the 10% growth forecast by...
When Texas Instruments Inc. lowered its revenue guidance last week for the quarter about to end, citing weakness in 3G sales to a large customer, analysts were quick to speculate on forecasts for global handset sales this year. That's because Nokia Corp. is TI's...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Altierre: The Galleon Group led a $22 million Series C funding round into San Jose, Calif.-based Altierre Corp., which...
If you think you're seeing Bluetooth headset advertisements everywhere, offering a bewildering array of styles and functionality from innumerable companies, you're spot on. The growth of mobile multimedia - driven in part by a shift in emphasis by network operators' pursuit of data-related revenues...
Mobile phone design efforts over the past two years appear to have taken the handset as far as it will go, for now, if the handsets coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, are any indication.The forefront of innovation today is...
WHAT TYPES OF DEVICES might ride on the 700 MHz frequency licenses now up for bid in the United States?The question is as open and varied as the 214 qualified spectrum bidders and their disparate strategies, analysts said."We don't know what the winners of...
Although the global market for mobile handset baseband semiconductors will continue to expand in 2008, business conditions for suppliers of such solutions will become more challenging due to the shrinking top-tier customer base and more complex requirements from these companies, according to iSuppli Corp....
The market for WiMAX chipsets will reach almost $500 million by 2012, driven mainly by embedded mobile WiMAX in mobile personal computers, according to new research from high-tech research firm In-Stat.The market will also benefit from demand for WiMAX customer premises equipment, external clients...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that its telecom division is booming, shoring up weakness in its semiconductor division. Fourth-quarter handset shipments reached 46.3 million units, up a healthy 41% year-on-year, while operating margins for 2007 increased by 1% year-on-year to 11%. The company...
An informal survey of four analysts on the mobile devices on display at the International Consumer Electronics show this week in Las Vegas quickly took different directions with a common theme. Mobile, handheld devices on offer were "evolutionary," not "revolutionary" and that ratcheted up...
Padmasree Warrior has been named Cisco Inc.'s CTO just a day after her departure from Motorola Inc.Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., is one of the world's biggest networking companies. Warrior, who had been Motorola's chief technology officer since 2003, was one of the...
The departure of Padmasree Warrior, Motorola Inc.'s CTO, effective yesterday, came on the heels of CEO Ed Zander's recent announcement that he will leave his CEO post at month's end-and caps a year in which the executive faces at Motorola have blurred. The year...
A group of industry heavyweights-headed by Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC Corp., Qualcomm Inc., and Motorola Inc.-announced a new software platform for cellphones that includes an operating system, middleware, user interface and applications. The alliance said the first phones based on the "Android" platform will...
You're hearing a dizzying stream of promises and jargon aimed at convincing businesses to "go mobile."But you'd like to hear unvarnished advice from folks who have done the heavy lifting. Case studies, from the horse's mouth. Ya shoulda been at the roundtable Monday...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reported $2.39 billion in earnings for the third quarter, an increase of 1% from the same period last year, due largely to growth in its cellphone and chip-making businesses.The world's No. 2 handset manufacturer brought in $5.2 billion in sales...
Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. announced it is in negotiations to sell its cellphone business to fellow Japanese electronics maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. If the deal is completed, it would further consolidate the world's hotly contested mobile phone business, as well as bolster Kyocera's market...
The abundance of venture capital for new mobile technologies such as mobile WiMAX chips has created more companies than can survive in the space, according to Mike Thelander, principal at Signals Research Group L.L.C."It's hard to foresee positive return-on-investment for many companies," said Thelander....
Intel Corp. has a vision for portable, personal broadband that will ensure the company transitions from "Intel Inside" to "Intel on the Internet."Mobile WiMAX plays a big role in chip vendor's vision, according to Intel's Ron Peck. Intel is prepared to turn out WiMAX...
