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Articles tagged with: Csr
Faster GPS With Lower Battery Drain
GPS platform vendor, csr says that it is launching a new range of GPS chips that offer faster location information provision whilst lowering the power demands on mobile devices. The essence of the SiRFstarIV breakthrough is its ability to continually maintain "better-than-hot-start" conditions in the GPS receiver for fast location fixes without having to be kept fully turned on all the time and draining precious battery power. Until now, designers of mobile devices were forced to completely turn off GPS receivers when not in use to conserve power, causing annoying start-up delays when a location application needed to get a new location fix quickly. more
TI, Qualcomm, Sony, and Samsung Score Key Design Wins in New Palm Pre
Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Sony and Samsung Electronics are the leading component suppliers for Palm's new Pre, providing the key semiconductor and display technologies that give the smart phone its competitive differentiation, according to dissection conducted by iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service. more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, qualcomm, sony, samsung-electronics, palm-pre, isuppli, cdma2000, memory, smart, hynix, lcd, nand, displays, andrew, flash, ev-do, dram
Violations of Workers' Rights Reported in Asian Mobile Phone Factories
The mobile phone industry is often presented as a clean, unproblematic industry, but a report from the lobbying group, makeITfair claims that this is not the case. Young electronics workers reportedly handle chemicals without protective gear. They work inhumane overtime hours to cover basic needs and are punished if they make mistakes. The report says that in the export processing zones in Asia where the factories are located, protests are often brutally suppressed. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, iphone, samsung, motorola, apple, apple, ericsson, sony, China
UPDATE: Nokia Shares -11% After Warning on 3Q Market Share
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Shares in Nokia tumbled Friday after the world's biggest handset maker downgraded its third-quarter market-share outlook, attributing the revision to the weaker global economy and its tactical decision to stay out of a handset price war. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, samsung, gartner, ericsson, vodafone, stmicroelectronics, sony, samsung-electronics, vodafone-group
CSR launches highly integrated wireless single chip
UK based csr has announced the launch of its seventh generation BlueCore silicon, which integrates Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low energy, eGPS, and FM transmit and receive technologies on a single chip. BlueCore7 includes csr's proprietary AuriStream voice CODEC, which produces the quality of a fixed line call, when using a Bluetooth connection, and is capable of a 30% reduction in power consumption. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, gps, memory
CSR ships one billion Bluetooth chips
Bluetooth developer, csr says that is has just shipped its billionth Bluetooth chip. csr says that its Bluetooth silicon is designed-in around 60% of all Bluetooth qualified products. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, bluetooth, semiconductors
CSR gives first public demonstration of ULP Bluetooth
csr has given its first public demonstration of an Ultra Low Power (ULP) Bluetooth platform. The demonstrations showed that csrÃ's ULP Bluetooth silicon consumes 10 times less power than standard Bluetooth when connectable. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, battery, switches
Wholesale Price of GPS-Enabled Handsets to Fall under $200 by 2010
Presently, most handsets with integrated GPS are smartphones or high-end feature phones, with wholesale prices in the range of $250 to $500. However, chipset manufacturers now have solutions in place that will permit the integration of GPS in handsets at lower costs, and provide significant improvements in terms of accuracy, time-to-first-fix, and reception in indoor environments. As a result, the wholesale ASP (Average Selling Price) of GPS-enabled handsets will fall under $200 by 2010. more
Related Tags: broadcom, wcdma, bluetooth, gps, abi-research, smartphones, samsung, sirf, chipset
Broadcom, Samsung and Marvell Supplying Chips for the iPhone"
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Chip makers Broadcom, Samsung Electronics and Marvell Technology are among those supplying chips for Apple's iPhone, the companies and industry sources said Monday. more
Related Tags: broadcom, bluetooth, skyworks-solutions, ben, samsung-electronics, skyworks
Wireless Coexistence... on a Single IC
The wireless communications industry continues to converge and "wireless coexistence" is now vital to the future success of the majority of companies in this industry. more
Related Tags: broadcom, thomson, bluetooth, ims-research, ims