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Articles tagged with: Texas Instruments and Sony
TI, Qualcomm, Sony, and Samsung Score Key Design Wins in New Palm Pre
Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Sony and Samsung Electronics are the leading component suppliers for Palm's new Pre, providing the key semiconductor and display technologies that give the smart phone its competitive differentiation, according to dissection conducted by iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Service. more
Related Tags: qualcomm, samsung-electronics, palm-pre, isuppli, cdma2000, memory, smart, hynix, csr, lcd, nand, displays, andrew, flash, ev-do, dram
Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008
Shakespeare'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. more
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A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers
For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenue to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results for the overall semiconductor industry, according to preliminary market-share figures from iSuppli. more
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Nine New Members for the Symbian Foundation
Following Nokia's proposal to buy out its fellow shareholders in the Symbian mobile OS company and release it as an open source platform - the company has now announced that nine more companies have joined the Symbian Foundation. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, semiconductor, samsung, docomo, texas, lg, symbian, open-source, symbian-foundation
UPDATE: Nokia, Mobile Cos to Create Symbian Foundation
Nokia, Tuesday said it will acquire the remaining stake in Symbian it doesn't already own and with a range of partners create the Symbian Foundation, an open source model for the Symbian wireless operating system. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, microsoft, samsung, smartphones, driving, docomo, texas, apple, motorola, lg, blackberry, panasonic, symbian, open-source, samsung-electronics, siemens, operating-system, license-fees, symbian-foundation
Symbian Components to be Offered as Open Source Software
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. more
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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
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, broadcom, ethernet, wcdma, qualcomm, texas, nxp, infineon, analog, freescale, mediatek
EARNINGS PREVIEW: Nokia 1Q Net Profit Seen Up 42% to EUR1.39 Billion
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia, the world's largest handset maker by sales, is expected Thursday to report a 42% increase in first-quarter net profit to EUR1.39 billion compared with EUR979 million in the year-earlier period, according to a Factset poll of 22 analysts. more
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Handset Market Growth Drops to 6% in 2008
The global handset market is forecast to see slowing growth for 2008, with year-on-year growth only achieving 5.7% according to the IMS Research Online Cellular Database. This is significantly lower than previous years, which enjoyed double digit growth. Shipments for new handsets are forecast to hit 1.19 billion for 2008, up from 1.12 billion in 2007. more
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Global Semiconductor Market Suffers Bad Memories of 2007
Surprising weakness 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 3.3 percent in 2007, based on the results from iSuppliĆ's final 2007 chip market share data. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, flash-memory, qualcomm, isuppli, infineon-technologies, toshiba, texas, samsung, semiconductors, infineon, playstation, memory, samsung-electronics, analog, hynix, nand, flash, hynix-semiconductor, dram