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Infineon Technologies AG will purchase LSI Corp.’s mobile products unit for $450 million in cash, the companies announced.LSI merged with Agere Systems in April and cut the deal with Infineon …

Mosaid Technologies Inc. announced it will pay around $70 million to chipmaker Agere Systems for patents covering Wi-Fi and WiMAX technology.“Agere invited more than 70 companies to bid on this …

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 …

Time was when the wireless industry’s major, marketshaping impact in the telecom sphere was defined by the number of mobile phones that became substitutes for landline telephones, which historically consumers …

The oft-repeated statement-“thin is in”-like many obvious axioms, tends to mask nuance. What exactly is this quality that appears to rule the current landscape for fashion phones? Ask a variety …

MILPITAS, Calif.-Chipmaker LSI Logic Corp. jumped into the wireless arena by scooping up Agere Systems Inc., a mobile phone chip producer. LSI develops chips for hard drives and DVD recorders, …

Trying to form a sense of the sprawling chip market for mobile phones is akin to getting a tape measure around an elephant’s waist. With dozens of players and product …

AUSTIN, Texas-StarCore L.L.C. is closing up shop due to a lack of success in licensing its early digital signal processor family of chips. The company had hoped to challenge Texas …

AUSTIN, Texas—StarCore L.L.C. is closing up shop due to a lack of success in licensing its early digital signal processor family of chips. The company had hoped to eventually challenge …

CHICAGO-Agere Systems launched a suite of chips and software called TrueONE during the Globalcomm trade show last week, saying the new solutions are designed to deliver voice, data, and both …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Chip vendor Agere Systems today released its new TrueAdvantage line of products, which the company said would save carriers millions of dollars by combining second- and third-generation network technology …

Signal Reach National Cellular and Signal Reach introduced a new antenna coupler the companies said can attach to any mobile phone and improve the phone’s signal reception. The coupler attaches …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said it has acquired Modern-Art Ltd., a privately held maker of processor technology for UMTS devices. The purchase cost Agere $145.1 million in cash and stock. …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said its Sceptre HPU solution is now generally available. The chipset and software solution for dual-mode UMTS/EDGE multimedia mobile handsets enables seamless handovers between third-generation/UMTS and …

LiveBridge Mark Irwin has been promoted to vice president of finance at contact center services company LiveBridge Inc. Irwin joined LiveBridge in 1999 as corporate controller. He directed the company’s …

Wi-Fi is quickly taking the place of integrated cameras and push-to-talk functions as the new hot technology for the handset market. As a result, chipmakers, carriers and handset suppliers are …

ROK Entertainment Group said its ROK Player allows multimedia memory card-capable mobile phones to play content-loaded multimedia chips on the full screen of their handsets rather than in letterbox formats. …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said it has introduced a technology framework that will allow mobile handset vendors to rapidly develop wireless phones for multimedia applications such as audio and video …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-Berkana Wireless Inc. introduced its BKW9000-based radio reference design kits. The kits are designed to speed development of cellular handsets and handhelds based on the BKW9000 line of single-chip …

DALLAS-Two victors, two vanquished. Broadcom Inc. agreed to take a charge of $27.5 million in settling all outstanding litigation with Agere Systems Inc. In another development, The Delaware Court of …

A year ago, the semiconductor sector seemed on cruise control, while other sectors of telecom had just begun to rev up their economic recovery engines. Quarter after quarter companies reported …

CHICAGO-Chipmaker Agere Systems Inc. said it plans to lay off 500 workers, reflecting a slowdown in the semiconductor market that has hit companies such as Intel Corp. and Philips Semiconductors. …

Both the mobile infrastructure space and wireless local area network arena are heading toward sunnier times, according to reports by the Dell’Oro Group. WLAN is enjoying a big boost with …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems said it plans to submit a proposal to IEEE this summer for a baseline wireless networking specification that establishes ultra-fast data streams for wireless high-definition TV transmissions …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Voice-over-Wi-Fi holds potential for both wireless local area network switch vendors and chip makers, according to new research from ABI Research. WLAN switch vendors have promoted their solutions …