As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
NEW YORK-Voice Signal Technologies Inc. will begin commercial sale later this summer of its VoiceTag wireless communications speech- recognition solution, designed to be embedded in the device instead of relying on computer servers or distributed architecture.The privately held company, headquartered in Woburn, Mass., is...
Sun Microsystems Inc., the inventor of Java technology is embracing ARM Ltd., a provider of microprocessor solutions, to optimize applications for handsets.ARM, which has about 75 percent market share in providing processor chips for wireless devices, is throwing in its Jazelle technology which will...
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...
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...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
DALLAS-The aggressive cost-cutting plan recently implemented by Texas Instruments Inc. that included a voluntary retirement program, shortened work weeks and manufacturing consolidation, apparently wasn't enough, as reflected in the company's first quarter financial results, reported late last Tuesday.TI's revenue for first quarter 2001 totaled...
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...
While most wireless companies are targeting either the consumer or the business market with their technology, a select few are targeting a new and rather unlikely area for wireless services and devices-the classroom.The vision these companies have consists of students keeping up with new...
DALLAS-Sendo Plc has chosen Texas Instruments Inc.'s high performance, low power OMAP technology to power its new Z100 Multimedia Smartphone.According to the company, TI's OMAP architecture will give the phone greater functionality, performance and battery life.The Z100 Multimedia Smartphone, which will be available this...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
Of the 387 people who work for Parthus Technologies plc, more than 300 are engineers. This, company executives say, is one of the main reasons Parthus is able to offer such a diverse range of products and technologies, and eventually will position the company...
DALLAS-Beatnik Inc., which provides audio solutions and content for digital devices, games and the Web, has announced agreements with Texas Instruments and ARM, which provides 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. According to the agreements, Beatnik will optimize its Beatnik Audio Engine for use on...
While the market for consumers who might want to watch streaming video or listen to streaming audio on their wireless devices is debatable, chip manufacturers are going ahead with plans to integrate streaming content technology into chips in case that demand materializes.Toshiba Corp. unveiled...
Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. jumped into the wireless game and into competition with Texas Instruments Inc. after introducing a Micro Signal Architecture that integrates digital signal processor and microcontroller features in a single platform.The architecture is optimized for processing modem, audio, video,...
Horizon PCS, the largest Sprint PCS affiliate in terms of population covered, withdrew its planned initial public offering Dec. 4, citing "unfavorable market conditions." The Chillicothe, Ohio, carrier had registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in May for an IPO of 9.65 million...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. have agreed to develop GPRS phones using Microsoft Corp.'s Stinger smart phone platform and Mobile Internet Explorer microbrowser software for VoiceStream's GSM network.VoiceStream has stated it plans to launch GPRS services sometime next year. The...
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...
NEW YORK-Dallas-based Texas Instruments has begun making samples of its new Bluetooth chipset available and will begin shipping them by year-end, Christian Dupont, general manager of the short-distance wireless unit, said.Developed by Butterfly VLSI Ltd., an Israeli company TI acquired early last year, the...
PARIS-SnapTrack Inc. said an international consortium of Global System for Mobile communications wireless carriers and equipment manufacturers are preparing to evaluate SnapTrack's Wireless Assisted Global Positioning System technology, which provides services such as location-based billing, mobile directory and roadside assistance and vehicle fleet management.France...
NEW YORK-Sony Corp. has licensed the Texas Instruments Open Multimedia Application processing engine and Symbian's EPOC software platform for Sony's next generation of wireless handsets.Sony selected the two technologies as part of an "ongoing effort to implement Memory Stick storage and data exchange into...
NEW YORK-Randy Ostler, mobile computing marketing manager for Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, called his company's new collaboration with Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., a "declaration of independence for software developers."The agreement will open TI's digital signal processors to the legions of software developers writing applications...
Com-Net EricssonCom-Net Ericsson Critical Radio Systems Inc. will introduce several new products at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas ranging from trunked and conventional radios to a new voice-over-Internet Protocol product. The Panther 300P portable and Panther 300M mobile conventional radios will...
