Articles tagged with: Qualcomm and Freescale

Qualcomm Shipped the Most Mobile Devices GPUs Last Year

Shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011 of graphics chips (GPUs) in mobile devices had a CAGR for the year of 18% according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). more

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Qualcomm, Freescale Among Chipmakers With Eye On E-Books

The plot is thickening among chipmakers jockeying for authorship of the e-book reader market. more

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Chinese Handset Production Growth Down to Single Figures

China's CCID Consulting has reported that after a period of rapid growth over the past few years, the Chinese mobile handset chips market experienced a conspicuous decline in 2008. The research firm predicts that the scale of Chinese mobile phone chips market is expected to reach RMB 110 billion (US$16 billion), up by 6%, down to single-digit growth for the first time. more

Tessera Extends Patent Talks Deadline with Motorola

Tessera Technologies has announced that it has extended its option agreement with Motorola that enables the firm to enter into a pre-negotiated license agreement with Tessera and settle all outstanding litigation between the companies. The option now runs through mid-February 2009. Other detailed terms of the agreements, including option fees, license fees and license royalties, are confidential. more

Related Tags: semiconductor, motorola, tessera, itc, license-fees, option

Motorola, Qualcomm Win First Stage in Patent Dispute

The USA's International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued an initial finding in a patent lawsuit brought by Tessera Technologies against a raft of companies, including Motorola and qualcomm - stating that Tessera's asserted patents are valid but are not infringed by the respondents. more

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

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

Competitiveness Separates Winners from Losers in 2007 Semiconductor Market

iSuppli's preliminary 2007 global semiconductor market-share estimate reveals performances by individual companies in specific market segments are varying widely, indicating that amid slowing growth for semiconductor sales, companies that have superior execution or that have been better able to capitalize on industry trends or events outperformed the market - and the competition. more

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

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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