Chips – Semiconductor

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. introduced a new chip last week designed to bring paging capability to personal digital assistants and other devices not traditionally used for paging. The MMC2080 chip can …

WANDEL & GOLTERMANN RadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values …

Chances are slim to none that U.S. mobile phone operators will agree on one standard for the next generation of mobile phone services. Already fragmented with three different digital standards-cdmaOne, …

TOKYO-In reaction to the Japanese government’s announcement it will limit to three in each district the number of carriers providing IMT-2000 services, cellular carriers here have started playing musical chairs, …

While satellite news of late primarily has focused on voice and data services, broadband satellite communications services are expected to play an increasingly important role in the next 10 years, …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-U.S. semiconductor companies maintained their share of the Japanese chip market during the first quarter of 1998 despite the economic slowdown there, said the Semiconductor Industry Association. The …

L.M. Ericsson head Sven-Christer Nilsson told the Japanese press late last week his company will continue negotiations with Qualcomm Inc. and said it is ready to reach some form of …

IBM Corp. last week introduced a new process for building high-speed transistors that could translate into smaller wireless phones. The process, called silicon-on-insulator, places a thin layer of silicon on …

Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM2310 Mobile Station Modem, a single-chip, tri-mode vocoder solution supporting Enhanced Variable Rate Vocoder is available in production quantities. A derivative of Qualcomm’s MSM2300, the …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-For a while it looked as if the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) original vision of a single global standard for third-generation mobile networks could be possible. Everyone was …

SINGAPORE-The International Telecommunication Union has some difficult work ahead of it to harmonize the various third-generation proposals standards bodies around the world will submit by tomorrow. While most of the …

Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the competitive landscape. IBM Corp.’s Microelectronics division …

An indoor solution to wireless electronic asset tracking that uses digital radio-frequency technology to locate personnel and property has been developed by PinPoint Corp., a fledgling company based in Bedford, …

VLSI Technology Inc. today announced it is shipping samples of its new Code Division Multiple Access chip solution, which it is calling the first real alternative to Qualcomm Inc.’s CDMA …

Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to jump-start third-generation mobile phone technology. Motorola’s …

WASHINGTON-Telecom mergers, traditionally seen as threatening by organized labor, have become major platforms for unions and civil-rights groups to push their agendas and try to leverage concessions. As the Communications …

Wideband cdmaOne will play a small part in the proposal Japan’s standards body will submit to the International Telecommunications Union as a third-generation technology choice. The Association of Radio Businesses …

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute may be at a crossroads now that Qualcomm Inc. has outlined the terms under which it will grant intellectual property rights to wideband Code Division …

Several leading telecommunications and computer industry companies last week announced a technology platform that would allow all types of mobile devices to communicate with each other without cable connections. Companies …

For the cellular industry, it’s the morning after. Sort of. The industry was deregulated significantly in 1993, a high mark for the powerful cellular lobby in Washington, D.C. Life was …

Becker/Jani Inc. A log periodic dipole antenna, the Celwave Maximizer model APL 926513, was introduced for Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications systems. The antenna offers a …

As standards bodies around the world study the possibility of harmonizing third-generation technology, the prospect has taken an ugly turn in the United States. While GSM-based wideband Code Division Multiple …

Motorola Inc.’s Semiconductor Products Sector will make its DSP56652 chip available to the open market, representing the first generally available product based on Motorola’s dual-core architecture, said the company. The …

SnapTrack Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is attracting attention from some industry heavyweights with its Global Positioning System-based method for providing location-based services, including enhanced 911 service. Seven Code …