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TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. released details about its Mobile Videophone Middleware Package software. The new product adds video conferencing capability to the company's SH-Mobile series of application processors. The software, which includes echo-canceller and noise-suppression functions, conforms to the 3G-324M third-generation mobile-phone audiovisual communications standard.The...

TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. announced it formed a new design company, Renesas Design France S.A.S in Rennes, France, which the company said will develop and design baseband LSIs for phones. Renesas has been supplying system LSIs for mobile phones since the company's establishment. The company...

TOKYO-UbiNetics and Renesas Technology Corp. said they have signed an agreement to develop what they describe as the first radio-frequency solution supporting W-CDMA and High Speed Downlink Packet Access in the frequency bands used in Japan, Europe and the United States.This marks the second...

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-High Speed Download Packet Access technology stands to create a major shift in the cellular handset memory market when the technology is deployed in networks and handsets beginning next year, according to research from Allied Business Intelligence.The technology will put pressure on...

TOKYO-In its second such announcement in as many days, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it will invest $50.3 million in Texas Instruments Inc. over two years to jointly develop a single-chip LSI, making FOMA 3G handsets compatible with both W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS networks.Currently,...

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The CellularRAM specification co-development team has welcomed Renesas technology to its fold of chipmakers in the Asian market. Other members include Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Infineon and Micron Technology Inc.The team works in markets such as China, Japan, India, Singapore and the Philippines....

ATLANTA-Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. signed a cooperation and co-marketing agreement with Renesas Technology Corp. that will allow Renesas' SH-Mobile Consortium to offer ART's speech and handwriting recognition solutions to its customers.Renesas was formed by the merger of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.'s semiconductor...

TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. announced it will incorporate Microsoft Corp.'s digital audio and video codec technology and RealNetworks Inc.'s digital audio and video codec technologies into its SH-Mobile Series of application processors for next-generation mobile-phone systems.Through this partnership, the codec technologies, which are currently used...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-MontaVista's Linux consumer electronic edition will support Renesas Technology Corp.'s multimedia application processor for mobile phones, according to both Renesas and MontaVista Software Inc.The product is known as SH-Mobile platform."The mobile-phone market has been rapidly gravitating toward Linux away from proprietary platforms in...

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., with the goal of turning a profit in its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said...

TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., whose goal is to turn on profit its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said they...

BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Union has given its nod to the semiconductor joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp, making the world's second largest chipmaker.According to the JV, which will be known as Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi will own 55 percent while Mitsubishi...

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said they have decided to bring their semiconductor units together to form a new company called Renesas Technology Corp. The new company, which should begin operations in April, is intended to combine the system Large Scale Integration (LSI)...