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Articles tagged with: Freescale Semiconductor
Tessera wins patent dispute with chipmakers
Tessera Technologies said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola, Qualcomm, Freescale Semiconductor and Spansion. more
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Android based Netbooks to Emerge in 2009
Opinion by Laurent Lachal, Ovum Open Source Research Director
Upwards view: Linux is losing ground
The upwards view of netbooks starts with netbooks and looks up to laptops. It
leads to two conclusions. First, the laptop market is becoming increasingly
complex, with market segments catered for by a growing variety of low-cost
netbooks and laptops. Second, after a strong start, Linux netbooks have now been
overtaken by Windows netbooks and Linux is lagging increasingly behind in terms
of sales - although Linux's performance in the netbook segment is still
outstanding compared to its overall performance in the desktop market.
more
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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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Fitch Downgrades Freescale Debt on Motorola/Infrastructure Worries
Fitch Ratings has revised the Rating Outlook on Freescale Semiconductor to Negative from Stable. Fitch's actions affect approximately $9.5 billion of total debt. more
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Freescale Semiconductor has announced that Michel Mayer, chairman and CEO, has decided to step down. The company and its board of directors have initiated a search for a new CEO. Mayer will continue in his current role until a successor has been identified and will remain chairman of the board until the transition is effective. more
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Qualcomm Enters Semiconductor Top-10 in Q2
Qualcomm, a US-based fabless semiconductor supplier, rose to the ninth position among global semiconductor suppliers in the second quarter, up from 13th in the first quarter. The seller of communications chips in the second quarter achieved revenue $1.4 billion, up 8.6 percent from $1.3 billion in the first quarter. more
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ITC Imposes Partial Import Ban On Qualcomm Chips
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The International Trade Commission on Thursday imposed a partial ban on the imports of 3G cellular phones using Qualcomm's microchips in a ruling over a patent dispute between the company and rival Broadcom. more
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Freescale Reduces EDGE RF Subsystem Size by 50 Percent
Expanding its RF offerings for Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) handset design, Freescale Semiconductor unveiled its first RF CMOS 90-nanometer transceiver. The new RFX275-30 is a transceiver subsystem that offers low transmit and receive current, high receiver sensitivity and compact size. more
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Freescale Wins Chinese 3G Contract
As TD-SCDMA technology ramps in China as the official standard for 3G mobile telephone service, Freescale Semiconductor continues to win major wireless basestation designs. Datang Mobile, one of China's largest government-owned telecom equipment manufacturers, has selected Freescale's MSC8122 quad-core DSP based on StarCore technology for its TD-SCDMA Node-B basestations. more
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Private Equity Groups Buy Freescale
Former Motorola subsidiary, Freescale Semiconductor has agreed to be brought by a private equity consortium in a transaction with a total equity value of US$17.6 billion. The consortium is led by The Blackstone Group, and includes The Carlyle Group, Permira Funds and Texas Pacific Group. more
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