DALLAS, United States—In a memorandum of understanding, L.M. Ericsson said it has agreed to combine Texas Instruments' semiconductors with its mobile platforms."TI's wireless digital signal processor and analog products and proven semiconductor manufacturing have enabled superior performance in Ericsson phones for more than a...
DALLAS-L.M. Ericsson said it has agreed to combine Texas Instruments' semiconductors with its mobile platforms in a memorandum of understanding."TI's wireless digital signal processor and analog products and proven semiconductor manufacturing have enabled superior performance in Ericsson phones for more than a decade," said...
NEW YORK—International Business Machines said it developed a logic circuit based on molecules called carbon nanotubes as semiconductors that are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair."Carbon nanotubes are now the top candidate to replace silicon when current chip features just can't be...
NEW YORK-Although it recently affirmed its ratings on Semtech Corp., a wireless device semiconductor maker, Standard & Poor's Corp. revised downward its ratings outlook for the company to reflect "stresses" in its target markets.Semtech, headquartered in Newbury Park, Calif., provides power regulation chips for...
DENVER, United States-The third-generation (3G) hype is much less intense than a year ago, as executives and engineers get down to the nitty-gritty of making the new technology-and their business plans-work. It is a time of industry transition and stealth-mode research and development, along...
MONTE CARLO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. made several announcements regarding Java technologies.Zucotto unveiled its Xpresso 100 microcontroller, its first Xpresso Java technology-based processor for wireless devices, making the company's J2ME technology mobile. According to Mark Wells, Zucotto chief executive officer, with the Xpresso 100, manufacturers will...
NEW YORK-The worst is just behind or dead ahead for technology stocks, depending on whether you believe the bull or the bear who shared the dais at the New York Society of Security Analysts' "Internet Economy Conference."Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan has become...
NEW YORK-With the personal computer sector maturing, CIBC World Markets views "communications applications as the next driver of the semiconductor industry," notwithstanding the current but temporary slowdown, said N. Quinn Bolton, semiconductor equipment analyst for the investment bank."There is a tremendous drive in communications...
Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others have seen how Intel Corp. has dominated the mobile computer market with its...
Chips are falling through the cracks of the slowing economy.Just like phone makers, solutions providers and operators, chip makers are buckling in what analysts describe as their worst time ever.Big names like Texas Instruments, Intel Inc. and Conexant Systems Inc. have reflected the sour...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced its Global Telecom Solutions Sector has successfully transmitted live video over its own third-generation CDMA 1xEV-DV solution in its lab in Arlington Heights, Ill.According to the company, the new solution enables real-time voice, data and multimedia services on existing cdma2000...
HandsetsSendoEuropean mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light phone include a variety of colors, short message service (SMS) picture messaging, ring-tone sharing and games....
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. completed the sale of its UltraRF semiconductors division to Cree Inc. for about $30 million and 1.8 million shares of Cree stock.The transaction calls for Cree to supply radio-frequency power semiconductors to Spectrian for two years. In addition, the companies entered...
Secure with 50 converts and confident of its quality, the torch bearers of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology believe that telecom companies are heeding their call to make it a global standard.The association, known as the OFDM Forum, seeks to foster a...
Worldwide silicon chip sales for 2000 likely will top $200 billion for the first time, the Semiconductor Industry Association, San Jose, Calif., projected last week."The chip industry remains on track to achieve sales of $205 billion in 2000," said George Scalise, president of the...
LAS VEGAS-Headset manufacturer Plantronics Inc. selected Philips Semiconductors as a technology partner in the development of its Bluetooth headsets. Plantronics said it will base its first Bluetooth-enabled headset on Philips second-generation Bluetooth chipset. The headset is expected to be available by the spring of...
SAN DIEGO-Integrated circuits producer Philips Semiconductors formed a strategic alliance with Widcomm Inc. to speed up the development of its Bluetooth wireless technology products and to provide customers with a complete range of Bluetooth solutions and support."Widcomm is a pioneer in Bluetooth software, while...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Russia's Academician and Communist lawmaker Zhores Alferov from the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, was announced a winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.He will share the prize worth about US$1 million with...
In my first journalism class, the instructor gave us an acronym to remember-KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. Little did I know I would some day work in acronym central, otherwise known as the wireless industry.In designing wireless devices, the KISS advice also holds true....
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
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...
It's been a wild roller-coaster ride for Qualcomm Inc.'s stock this year.The former Wall Street angel is fighting a public-relations battle that says a move to wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology is a move away from Qualcomm.Such is the story in South Korea,...
WASHINGTON-The skyrocketing consumer consumption and subsequent disposal of computers, pagers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other electronic devices has created new environmental challenges in the Digital Age, which Europe is addressing far more aggressively than the United States.The environmental challenges are playing out...
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...
