Following a trend by wireless players to chip away at Qualcomm Inc.'s stranglehold on the CDMA market, Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics announced a joint development program to offer chipsets for cdma2000 1x and 1xEV-DV.This announcement comes in the wake of Samsung Electronics'...
Chipmakers continue to stake claims in anticipation of an assured industry upswing.Bellwethers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. offered optimistic second-quarter projections, reinforcing a view that the sector has seen its worst days. In separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, both companies...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it is pulling out of its slump even as its chief executive officer defended the company's decision to offer stock options of up to 14 percent of its outstanding shares.With a 23-percent sales growth between the first quarters of...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. unveiled a digital to analog converter known as DAC5686 that supports up to four W-CDMA carriers' base stations."The DAC is coupled with four additional devices to simplify the design time required for the wireless transceiver system of the base station," said...
AUSTIN, Texas-Wintegra Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, has closed its third round of venture financing, raising $13 million from existing investors, including Texas Instruments and China Development Industrial Bank and an undisclosed new participant it described as a privately held European investment group."Our strategic...
NEW ORLEANS-Texas Instruments Inc. showcased a "tri-wireless personal digital assistant" concept design at CTIA Wireless 2003.The design integrates wireless local area network, Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS technologies to allow simultaneous phone calls, Web browsing, mobile-commerce, Bluetooth-enabled capabilities like printing and integrated DSP-accelerated multimedia applications, said...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has unveiled a family of boost converters to save board space, improve power conversion efficiency and deliver high currents for handhelds.TI said the product provides up to 96 percent power conversion.
DALLAS-Texas Instruments said it has introduced the world's first complete battery fuel gauge for cellular handsets and personal digital assistants."With today's announcement, TI simplifies the design of a cost-effective accurate battery fuel gauge in single cell applications by offering a solution that performs all...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Beatnik Inc., which provides structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, said Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. is using its Beatnik Audio Engine in its new Symbian OS P800 mobile phone and plans to use it in other future products.The BAE allows...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The virus protection business of Network Associates Inc. said it will jump into the wireless industry in order to protect wireless users from the potential threat of wirelessly transmitted computer viruses, and announced partnerships with processor company Texas Instruments Inc. and operating...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has thrown its support behind the OMAPI standard initiative announced by STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments last December to boost open standards for 2.5-generation and third-generation mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other portable and multimedia products."By developing common interfaces, the semiconductor...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. suffered a fourth-quarter loss of $589 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $2.1 billion. This contrasts with a $116 million loss, or seven cents a share, last year.However, the company's shares rose because of TI's sales leap to...
LAS VEGAS-Stan Sigman, the new head of Cingular Wireless, will not give a keynote speech during the Consumer Electronics Show, an appearance originally slated for Cingular's former President and CEO Stephen Carter. Sigman bows out of a keynote lineup that includes the heads of...
DALLAS-In a move to push for Linux-based wireless devices, chip maker Texas Instruments said it will work to embed a Linux platform from MontaVista Software Inc. into its OMAP application processors for wireless handsets."Because of its flexibility and ease of use, Linux is becoming...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc., which makes chips for mobile phones, said it expects revenues in the fourth quarter to decline only 2 percent, not the previously expected 5 percent, mostly due to demand for wireless and high-performance analog products.The company's stock was down slightly in...
LONDON-Operating system company Symbian said ARM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Motorola SPS, RealNetworks and Texas Instruments joined the company's Platinum Partner program. The company also said it will work with ARM and TI to closely integrate and optimize its operating system with the technologies from ARM...
Motorola Inc. claims it is the only company that has full type approval certification for its wireless reference designs for handhelds. Texas Instruments disagrees.Pointing to its I.250 platform for GPRS as a key example, Motorola said it has moved ahead of the pack with...
NEW YORK-The quarterly estimates of Texas Instruments Inc. and Micron Technology dropped in the eyes of two brokerage firms, Salomon Smith Barney and Bear Stearns respectively. Qualcomm Inc., however, enjoyed an AG Edwards upgrade to overweight from equal weight. Its shares bounced after it...
DALLAS- Texas Instruments Inc. said it has unveiled power interface switches that will reduce power consumption and extend battery life for notebooks, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices."As the first available CardBay interface switches, the TPS222x devices will facilitate the migration of the...
DALLAS-Siemens AG. said it has selected Texas Instruments to supply its system-on-chip solution for its GSM base stations.This solution supports GPRS, EDGE, GSM/EDGE Radio Network, NarrowBand-AMR and WideBand-AMR, according to a statement.
DALLAS-Thanks to sales of analog chips and digital signal processors, Texas Instruments reported a second-quarter net income of $95 million, or five cents a share.This contrasts with a net loss of $197 million, or 11 cents a share, during the same quarter last year....
OTTAWA, Canada-BitFlash's mobile player will be made a standard software offering on Texas Instruments Inc.'s popular OMAP processor platform for mobile phones, the companies announced.BitFlash's Mobile SVG Player will be the default animation and graphics player for handset makers that use TI's OMAP platform."The...
NEW YORK-Exuding good fortune in a time of stress, Texas Instruments says it expects to ramp up sales of GPRS chips by up to 50 percent in the next quarter.The company says at the moment, the chips account for 25 percent of its revenue.
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Cellenium Inc. launched a Bluetooth-enabled wireless vending system at this week's Bluetooth Congress.The system allows vending machine operators to monitor stocked goods and machine performance and allows customers to use wireless devices to pay for vending machine goods. Texas Instruments provided the...
