Articles tagged with: Texas and Infineon

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

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

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

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 iSuppli's final 2007 chip market share data. more

Competitiveness Separates Winners from Losers in 2007 Semiconductor Market

iSuppli's preliminary 2007 global semiconductor market-share estimate reveals performances by individual companies in specific market segments are varying widely, indicating that amid slowing growth for semiconductor sales, companies that have superior execution or that have been better able to capitalize on industry trends or events outperformed the market - and the competition. more

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

Nokia May Outsource Mobile TV Development Work

Nokia is reported to be considering canceling its in-house development of DVB-H chips for Mobile TV handsets and outsource its supply requirements. The local DigiTimes news publication said that "chipmakers, including texas Instruments (TI), DiBcom, Newport Media and Siano Mobile Silicon, are indicated as potential partners for the DVB-H chips with Nokia" citing unnamed sources in Taiwan. more

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Qualcomm Enters Semiconductor Top-10 in Q2

Qualcomm, a US-based fabless semiconductor supplier, rose to the ninth position among global semiconductor suppliers in the second quarter, up from 13th in the first quarter. The seller of communications chips in the second quarter achieved revenue $1.4 billion, up 8.6 percent from $1.3 billion in the first quarter. more

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

Return of the Payphone: Ultra Low Cost Handsets Getting Down to Business

The GSM Association recently announced that its Emerging Markets Handset program is exceeding expectations: mobile operators in Bangladesh, China, India, and Russia have already purchased 12 million of its Ultra Low Cost Handsets (ULCH). But will the initiative reach the rest of the three billion unconnected peoples in emerging markets? Under current cost models that is unlikely. more

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