Having doubled the money it sets aside for legal issues-from $100 million last year to $200 million for the year ahead-Qualcomm Inc. announced that it will hire Carol Lam, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.Lam will serve as a senior...
Texas Instruments Inc., established in 1930 to develop oil exploration technology, has grown into a predominantly wireless-based powerhouse with $14.3 billion in annual revenue last year. Its main customer for its digital signal processors is Nokia Corp., the world's largest cellphone vendor. By revenue,...
After declaring a strategy of diversity in semiconductor suppliers and signing deals with Texas Instruments Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. for W-CDMA and other chips, Motorola Inc. declared yesterday that it still cherishes its relationship with its spinoff, Freescale Semiconductor.If in fact the two companies,...
German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG crowed yesterday that it will supply Nokia Corp. with baseband and RF chips for the handset vendor's entry-level phones in GSM markets.Details of the deal were not disclosed, so the relative impact of the move to Texas Instruments...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News the chance to rant and rave about whatever rubs...
Beceem Communications, a WiMAX chipset vendor, announced it raised more than $40 million in its latest round of venture financing to expand on its position in the mobile WiMAX market.The WiMAX chip manufacturer said the investment will largely be used to develop and launch...
Motorola Inc.'s recent, sobering earnings report came with a number of explanations of how the American vendor would turn things around. Motorola executives mentioned, among several factors, their portfolio mix-and the role of 3G in a higher-average selling price, higher-margin mix of handsets. Ed...
A U.S. District Court jury on Friday found that Broadcom Corp. did not infringe on two Qualcomm Inc. patents for digital video compression used in high-definition set-top cable and satellite television boxes, as the latter had claimed. The jury also cited Qualcomm, in an...
The art of the "announcement" appears to couple specific news with vague hints at future products. Announcements can reassure investors and analysts and seek to intimidate competitors while keeping one's own product plans under wraps.Thus Motorola Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. said they would...
Competitive intelligence in the handset business is, in a sense, an open secret. Everyone is engaged in it to some degree, yet it is rarely discussed publicly. Industry players not only keep their own work secret, they don't want to tip their hand on...
Texas Instruments Inc. last week reported modest gains in the fourth quarter-revenue up 4 percent, profit up 2 percent from the year-ago quarter-but said it will cut 500 jobs to reduce costs as it hunkers down for a period of weak demand by the...
Qualcomm Inc.'s shares jumped briefly after the company reported increases in both its net income and revenues during its first fiscal quarter of 2007, but its stock price quickly dropped down to a steady $38.46 per share after the news.Analysts largely hailed the company's...
Texas Instruments Inc. reported modest gains in the fourth quarter-revenue up 4 percent, profit up 2 percent over the year-ago quarter-but it will cut 500 jobs as it prepares to hunker down for a period of weak chip demand by the mobile phone industry....
Sprint Nextel Corp. has chosen the Chicago and Washington, D.C., metro areas for the first deployment of its WiMAX network, with a rollout that it expected to cover at least 100 million people by the end of 2008. The initial WiMAX markets are supposed...
Thinner, more power, less drain on a handset-no, it's not a supermodel whose New Year' resolution is giving up mobile communications. It's a new mobile memory chip produced by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The South Korean conglomerate announced today that its new, 1 gigabyte, mobile...
News junkies can now use their cell phones to access the latest video reports from Reuters following the company's launch of a free, ad-supported video service. The service is available at mobile.reuters.com and works on smart phones from Nokia Corp., Palm Inc., Research In...
DALLAS-A slowdown in wireless chip sales forced Texas Instruments Inc. to trim its fourth-quarter revenue outlook from between $3.46 billion and $3.75 billion to between $3.35 billion and $3.5 billion The company said semiconductor revenues are expected in the range of $3.28 billion and...
YAKUM, Israel-Silicon developer Metalink Ltd. unveiled its updated draft-compliant 802.11n dual-band chipset for wireless home entertainment networks.The company said its WLANPlus chip features Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output technology and operates in both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The chipset enables multi-room networking of multiple high-definition...
Nortel Networks Ltd. landed a mobile WiMAX network supply deal in Taiwan, a trial in Japan, and a chip contract in Israel.
The company-which launched its WiMAX portfolio in October at the WiMAX World trade show and was hawking its new offering as 4G mobile...
First OFDMA and now MIMO. Qualcomm Inc.'s acquisition of Airgo Networks and its Multiple-Input, Multiple-Out technology, as well as the company's previous purchase of Flarion Technologies Inc., position Qualcomm to play big in future wireless broadband.The behemoth San Diego-based chipmaker last week announced it...
Qualcomm Inc. plans to profit from in-house Bluetooth intellectual property to drive down the cost, power consumption and footprint of chip-based functionality in mobile handsets and consumer electronic devices, the company said last week in the wake of its acquisition of much of RF...
Wireless entrepreneurs looking to scrape up venture capital would do well to recall a college radio hit from a few years ago: it's all about chemistry.There's been no shortage of investment cash in wireless lately. More than 40 mobile players raked in a total...
SAN DIEGO-Now that Qualcomm Inc.'s acquisition of Airgo Networks Inc. is out of the bag, the companies announced the availability of an 802.11n Draft 2.0 Wi-Fi chipset featuring Airgo's TrueMIMO Gen-N Technology.The companies said the AGN400 is Airgo's fourth-generation 802.11n-compliant chipset and noted that...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported plans to acquire RF Micro Devices Inc.'s Bluetooth-related assets for $39 million in cash. Qualcomm said that the acquisition, which focuses on Greensboro, N.C.-based RF Micro Device's Bluetooth-related intellectual property and team in San Diego, would enhance its ability to...
