Articles tagged with: Semiconductor and WCDMA

Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson Shine, Even as Wireless Chip Market Tanks

How bad was the fourth quarter of 2008 for the global wireless communications semiconductor industry? So bad that the accumulated 10 percent revenue growth during the first three quarters of 2008 was wiped out by a 23.3 percent decline during the last three months of the year, causing annual growth for wireless semiconductors to go flat with a marginal 0.7 percent increase.  more

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Qualcomm and Broadcom Wave a Paper and Declare "Peace For Our Time"

..ove on with their business and compete in the semiconductor sector as two of its innovation leaders," Scott A. McGregor, president and CEO of Broadcom said. "We have set aside our differences while addressing the needs of our customer more

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Cellular Base Station Chip Makers Face Declining Demand

For those making base station equipment and the semiconductors used in them, the next few years may be difficult ones, reports In-Stat. Base station semiconductor revenue will decline an average of 12.3% per year from 2008-2012, the high-tech market research firm says. There are several reasons for this.  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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Wireless Semiconductors Outgrow Overall Chip Market in 2007

Riding the momentum of continued strong demand growth for mobile handsets, sales of semiconductors for wireless products rose at a faster pace than the overall chip market in 2007, according to iSuppli. The global wireless semiconductor market generated $29.5 billion in revenue in 2007, up 7.6 percent from $27.4 billion in 2006. These figures consist of revenue from sales of application-specific semiconductors - excluding memory - for wireless applications, including mobile handsets, wireless infrastructure equipment, wireless LANs and connectivity products.  more

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Icera to Acquire Sirific Wireless for RF CMOS Technology

..s modem chipset developer, Icera has announced plans to merge with Sirific Wireless, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in CMOS RF transceivers. Icera says that the merger will enable it to deliver a complete chipset solution for the  more

Related Tags: hsupa, edge, modem, chipset, icera, fabless, cmos


MediaTek Sampling WCDMA Chips Ahead of Schedule

Taiwan based fabless semiconductor firm, MediaTek is understood to have started shipping initial samples of its new WCDMA chips to some handset vendors - reports the DigiTimes trade magazine. The sampling is ahead of schedule, and the company expects to start commercial sales within the next couple of months.  more

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Qualcomm and Texas Instruments Solidify Lead in Wireless Chip Sales

Qualcomm and Texas Instruments in the second quarter outpaced the wireless semiconductor market, boosting their share of global sales, according to iSuppli. In the second quarter, market-leader Qualcomm achieved wireless semiconductor revenue of US$1.37 billion, up 8.6 percent from $1.26 billion in the first quarter. No. 2 player Texas Instruments sold US$1.23 billion worth of wireless-oriented semiconductors, up 7 percent from US$1.15 billion in the first quarter.  more

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3G Base Station Amplifiers That Can Reduce Waste Heat Nearly 50%

..sing the efficiencies available using either conventional laterally-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistors or more expensive gallium nitride (GaN) devices. The importance of this next-generation in a more

Related Tags: analytics, strategy-analytics, triquint, opex, triquint-semiconductor, tower, gallium-arsenide, power-amplifier, gallium-nitride


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