Articles tagged with: Semiconductor and Gps

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Down in 2008 - Qualcomm Bucks the Trend

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $255 billion in 2008, down 5.4 percent, or a decrease of $14.5 billion from 2007 revenue, according to the final market share analysis by Gartner. The steep decline in the market in the final quarter of 2008, combined with the ongoing economic weakness, signals far worse declines in 2009.  more

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Comsys Mobile Offers WiMAX-GSM Handset Reference Platform

Fabless semiconductor vendor, Comsys Mobile has announced the launch of their latest ComMAX reference design platform, the CM1125RD - an optimized multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE smartphone reference design platform. Based on the ComMAX CM1125 baseband processor and integrating solutions from Comsys Mobile's partners, it incorporates all the features and functionalities required of smartphones, from antennae up to application processor.  more

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2009 GPS Market To Be Up Over 25% Despite Poor Semiconductor Outlook

The 2009 outlook for many semiconductor manufacturers is worsening by the day. Share prices have taken a severe hit with millions shaved from companies' market capital over the last 12 months. However, IMS Research projects the GPS market represents one of the few areas of growth in 2009.  more

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Texas Instruments Tops Mobile Internet Device Platform Vendor Ranking

..igns for their products," notes Philip Solis, principal analyst at ABI Research. "Among semiconductor vendors providing a processor and platform for MIDs, TI and Qualcomm have very different strengths that would be of varying interest depending more

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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

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Modest Growth in the Communications Silicon Market Despite U.S. Economic Worries

..ort which is predicting a steady growth rate of 5 percent per year in the wired communications semiconductor market segment up to 2012. The firm says that despite recent economic turbulence in the United States, 2008 year-to-date sales of wired more

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Apple Stresses Manufacturing Cost Reduction for iPhone 3G

The new iPhone 3G sports an evolutionary design that favors cost reduction instead of cutting-edge features, supporting Apple's goal of expanding its market share and achieving a worldwide presence for the product, according to a physical teardown analysis conducted this weekend by iSuppli.  more

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Broadcom Wins GPS Patent Dispute

.. through its acquisition of Global Locate, is a provider of GPS and assisted GPS semiconductor solutions, and is currently shipping GPS functionality into a variety of products including personal navigation devices and cellular handsets. Broad more

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RF Micro Devices to Cut 350 Jobs

..reless systems, including cellular transceivers and GPS solutions, in order to focus on core semiconductor component opportunities, including cellular front ends and other components in RFMD's Cellular Products Group (CPG) and the expanding p more

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STMicroelectronics and NXP Merge their Wireless Businesses

..cation and Home electronics." "The wireless semiconductor industry requires consolidation," said Jean-Francois Baril, senior vice president of sourcing and procurement with Nokia. "We welcome the emergence of this joint ventu more

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