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Articles tagged with: Semiconductor and Analog
Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008
..re's adage, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," was certainly true for the kings of the semiconductor industry in 2008, with eight out of the Top-10 suppliers suffering revenue declines for the year, according to iSuppli Corp. iSuppli's more
Related Tags: broadcom, texas-instruments, intel, flash-memory, samsung, qualcomm, isuppli, digital-signal-processor, lte, texas, toshiba, fujitsu, nec, nxp, sony, sharp, 3, memory, hynix, nand, on-semiconductor, flash, mediatek, ford, display, fabless, wired, nvidia, marvell-technology, renesas, true, marvell
A Receding Economic Tide Lowers Expectations for Crucial System-Level Chips
.. true in today's core silicon industry," said Jordan Selburn, principal analyst, semiconductor design for iSuppli. "Such application-specific semiconductors - whose sales grow in concert with high-volume applications - shrink with those applicat more
Related Tags: microsoft, isuppli, nintendo, personal, semiconductors, sony, sharp, jordan, true, 2g
Teardown Report Reveals Manufacturing Cost of BlackBerry Bold
..arvell processor represents 21.8 percent of the Bold's total BOM cost. This device uses a highly integrated design, combining almost all communications processing functions on a single chip, including applications processing, digital baseband more
Related Tags: sandisk, iphone, texas-instruments, flash-memory, samsung, isuppli, gps, blackberry, rim, touch-screen, battery, blackberry-bold, memory, rogers, operating-system, wlan, displays, andrew, flash, rogers-communications, downlink, display, microsd, music, qwerty, touch-screen, marvell, television
Worldwide Semiconductor Capital Equipment Spending to Decline 26% in 2008
..A collapse in memory spending, combined with a weak economy, is driving a major contraction in semiconductor capital equipment spending in 2008, according to Gartner. The slowdown is expected to continue into 2009 before the industry recovers i more
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Freescale Semiconductor Looking to Sell Mobile Chips Division
Computer-chip manufacturer, and former Motorola subsidiary, Freescale semiconductor is looking to sell off its mobile-phone chip division, the company confirmed in a statement. The company is understood to have been hurt by the slowdown in mobile handset sales from Motorola, which remains one of its largest customers. The division generates on average around 20% of the group's revenues. more
Related Tags: motorola, personal, freescale, chipset, motorola,
Texas Instruments' In-Line Outlook Boosts Shares
..rning from its top customer, Nokia Corp. "Given the negative sentiment across the semiconductor sector, and in light of Nokia's recent negative pre-announcement, we expect TI's new guidance to factor positively for the shares," analy more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, cisco, citigroup, texas, nokia,
The Birth of a Mobile-Handset Powerhouse
..rket for mobile-handset semiconductors, although it does supply passives for wireless phones. Barriers to entry for new suppliers of components in this market are very high due to intense competition, and the large size, extensive resources and more
Related Tags: wi-fi, isuppli, power-amplifiers, nxp, battery, switches, mems, chipset, antenna, rf-mems, power-amplifier, Germany
Sending Mobile Display Signals to a TV Screen
NXP semiconductors has launched a mobile TV-out processor to enable TV-output on any mobile phone having a standard LCD screen. The NXP SAA8510 converts mobile digital video signals into high-quality analog TV signals, which can then be displayed on any NTSC and PAL TV set. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, semiconductors, nxp, lcd, mobile-content, display
Freescale Semiconductor Pushed in Loss by Buyout Costs
Freescale semiconductor has reported that its net sales for the first quarter of 2008 were $1.41 billion, compared to $1.54 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007 and $1.36 billion in the first quarter of 2007. "Despite a challenging economic environment, the Freescale team executed well delivering solid margins, EBITDA and cash flow," said Rich Beyer, chairman and CEO. more
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Global Semiconductor Market Suffers Bad Memories of 2007
..s in the memory chip market in the fourth quarter took the wind out of the sails of the global semiconductor market, causing growth in 2007 to fall short of expectations, according to iSuppli. Global semiconductor market revenue grew by only 3. more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, flash-memory, qualcomm, isuppli, infineon-technologies, toshiba, texas, samsung, semiconductors, sony, infineon, playstation, memory, samsung-electronics, hynix, nand, flash, hynix-semiconductor, dram, fabless, nvidia, sony-and-toshiba, elpida-memory, elpida
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