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Articles tagged with: Broadcom and Infineon
Apples's iPhone 3GS Costs $178.96 to Manufacture
With the new iPhone 3G S's Bill of Materials (BOM) and feature set nearly the same as the previous model in the iPhone line, you might think the product's component selection would be virtually unchanged. However, a dissection conducted by iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service reveals some interesting changes in the parts and suppliers. more
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Broadcom Emerging as Tier-1 Baseband Supplier
According to a new Strategy Analytics report, cellular baseband revenues are not yet significant for broadcom, and thus, the company may have to continue its aggressive acquisition strategy in order to build a product range and customer base strong enough to compete with Qualcomm, Infineon and ST-Ericsson. more
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Compound Growth Rate for China's Mobile TV Output - Report
China's CCID Consulting, has reported that with the drive of export and domestic demands, China's mobile phone output continues to grow in 2007, reaching 554 million sets, with a growth rate of 25.4%. The export volume wass 322 million sets, which accounts for 58.2% of all phones made in the country. Currently, China's global mobile phone manufacturing base is quite steady. Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have transferred their capacities to China; because of this factor, the export volume of China's mobile phone increases 26.2%. Meanwhile, China's domestic mobile phone enterprises' capacity increases are evident, especially ZTE, Huawei and K-Touch. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, intel, samsung, motorola, qualcomm, bluetooth, huawei, gps, zte, nxp, sony, seven, mp3, rfmd, China
Infineon Damps Merger and Acquisition Speculation
FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies, Tuesday damped speculation that it could be part of merger and acquisition activity in the sector any time soon. more
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Nokia Says Single-chip Plan Not Hit by Infineon Delay
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia said Thursday its plan to use one chip for radio technology in its mobile handsets is still on track, despite news from supplier Infineon Technologies of delays. more
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Wireless-Chip Market Outpaced Wireline-Chip Market in 2007
Growing adoption of 3G technologies and feature-rich cell-phone chips led to a 13% increase in sales of cellular baseband processors in 2007, according to The Linley Group. Sales of networking chips, in contrast, declined by about 1% during the same period according to their new report. The slowdown in wired-communications chips is also reflected in the FPGA market as sales of FPGAs for communications systems declined 7%. more
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Consolidation Strikes the Mobile Phone Baseband Semiconductor Market
As the mobile-handset market goes, so goes the mobile-handset semiconductor market - and right now both areas are going through a period of consolidation that may lead to a significant winnowing of baseband chip suppliers, according to iSuppli. more
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Nokia May Outsource Mobile TV Development Work
Nokia is reported to be considering canceling its in-house development of DVB-H chips for Mobile TV handsets and outsource its supply requirements. The local DigiTimes news publication said that "chipmakers, including Texas Instruments (TI), DiBcom, Newport Media and Siano Mobile Silicon, are indicated as potential partners for the DVB-H chips with Nokia" citing unnamed sources in Taiwan. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, texas, dvb-h, mediaflo
Nokia Cuts Back on Mobile Chipset Development
Nokia has announced that it is shutting down parts of its own mobile chipset development and will expand its use of commercially available chipsets from 3rd party suppliers. more
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Broadcom and Qualcomm Jump 2 Places in Semiconductor Rankings
IC Insights has released its ranking of the top 25 worldwide semiconductor (ICs and OSDs - optoelectronics, sensors, and discretes) sales leaders for 2006. For the top 25 suppliers, it was clearly a year of the haves versus the have-nots. Although six of the twenty-five suppliers posted revenue spikes of greater than 35% in 2006, about one-third of the companies (eight) registered below-average sales growth (i.e., less than 9%) last year. more
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