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Articles tagged with: Stmicroelectronics
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
Related Tags: broadcom, semiconductor, texas-instruments, qualcomm, infineon-technologies, gartner, texas, credit-suisse, nxp, freescale-semiconductor, infineon, freescale
Nokia Says Single-chip Plan Not Hit by Infineon Delay
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia said Thursday its plan to use one chip for radio technology in its mobile handsets is still on track, despite news from supplier Infineon Technologies of delays. more
Related Tags: broadcom, texas-instruments, infineon-technologies, texas, edge, infineon, helsinki, chipset
French Researchers Create Hydrogen Fuel Cell for Mobile Phone
PARIS (AFP)--French researchers said Wednesday they had invented a hydrogen fuel cell as a backup power source for mobile phones, thus easing dependence on an electricity supply to charge the gadget. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, battery, fuel-cell, France
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
Related Tags: semiconductor, texas-instruments, wcdma, qualcomm, isuppli, hspa, texas, compete, semiconductors, memory
STMicroelectronics and NXP Merge their Wireless Businesses
NXP Semiconductor and stmicroelectronics have announced plans to combine their wireless operations to form a joint-venture company. The new organization will combine key design, sales and marketing, and back-end manufacturing assets from both companies into a streamlined worldwide joint venture that will rely on its parent companies and foundries for wafer fabrication services. The JV will also integrate the Silicon Laboratories' wireless and GloNav's GPS operations recently acquired by NXP. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, gps, nxp
Day One, Numonyx Emerges as Number One in Mobile Memory
A new number-one supplier of memory chips for mobile handsets was born today with the announcement of Numonyx, but can this semiconductor spin-off find success in a business where no one has posted a profit in three years? more
Related Tags: semiconductor, flash-memory, isuppli, memory-chips, spansion, memory, hynix, foundry, nand, numonyx, flash, hynix-semiconductor, dram
Copper's Not Coping: New Chips Call on Light Speed
The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor microlasers with silicon wave guides for novel, power-efficient optical connections. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, laser, nanoscale, trains, underground
Consolidation Strikes the Mobile Phone Baseband Semiconductor Market
As the mobile-handset market goes, so goes the mobile-handset semiconductor market - and right now both areas are going through a period of consolidation that may lead to a significant winnowing of baseband chip suppliers, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: broadcom, ptc, semiconductor, beceem-communications, isuppli, bankruptcy, texas, infineon, oem, analog, freescale, chipset, mediatek
Single Standard for Mobile Phone Memory Cards Proposed
Micron Technology, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, Spansion, stmicroelectronics and Texas Instruments have jointly announced that they are supporting the creation of a far-ranging industry specification for removable memory cards and embedded memory solutions being standardized by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (JEDEC), an open-standards organization in the semiconductor industry. more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, texas, memory, flash
Nokia Cuts Back on Mobile Chipset Development
Nokia has announced that it is shutting down parts of its own mobile chipset development and will expand its use of commercially available chipsets from 3rd party suppliers. more
Related Tags: broadcom, texas-instruments, infineon-technologies, texas, infineon, chipsets, modem, chipset
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