Semiconductor

A teardown of HTC Corp.’s (HTCFX) ThunderBolt highlights the expense behind LTE phones, according to the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. IHS said the ThunderBolt carries the highest bill of materials of any phone it has ever torn apart.With a …

Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has acquired Netarx, Michigan-based solution provider. Netarx provides IT professional services including managed services, data center, collaboration, and infrastructure design solutions to customers throughout the Great Lakes and Arizona. Read full …

Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) announced that its subsidiaries including Nortel Networks Limited (NNL), Nortel Networks Inc. and Nortel Networks U.K. Limited have completed a successful and final auction of all of Nortel’s remaining patents and patent applications. After an auction …

Huawei releases Honeycomb tablet Chinese vendor Huawei took the wraps off its mysterious HD MediaPad this week, giving CommunicAsia goers a hands on look at the 7-inch Android Honeycomb device, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. Stay tuned to …

CML Microsystems Plc , a mixed-signal semiconductor company headquartered close to London, England, has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder products from Spirit Corp, a Moscow based software company. CML originally licensed RALCWI from Spirit a …

Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) recently announced a new generation multi-core platform called the Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series and is billing it as the chip-maker’s biggest draw in several years.The new product platform aims to increase positioning in the networking field and …

GlobalFoundries has fired its top tier management this morning, effective immediately, replacing the CEO, COO and chairman of the board with appointees of the Abu Dhabi government investment arm ATIC.“The board of directors of GlobalFoundries – along with its majority …

Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge’s San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore …

Microelectronics is still seeing impressive growth according to the latest figures from Strategy Analytics. “The strong revenue reports which Strategy Analytics saw in April show continued compound semiconductor market expansion,” said Eric Higham, director of the Strategy Analytics GaAs and …

Apple has overtaken Hewlett-Packard Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to become the world’s largest semiconductor buyer according to iSuppli. The research outfit indicates that original equipment maker (OEM) Apple bought $17.5 billion worth of semiconductors in 2010, up 79.6% …

The telecommunications sector saw a 3,400 bump in jobs from April to May, but was still down 33,400 positions from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the wireless industry subsector, which lags a month behind …

Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share.According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 …

The greater Los Angeles metro area continues to lose jobs in the telecommunications sector, according to new data from the Department of Labor. The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area is the only area in greater Los Angeles that has been adding …

Telecom jobs nationwide continued to inch down, while jobs in the semiconductor space continued to ramp up in April, a consistency seen throughout 2011.Nationwide, nonfarm payroll employment increased by 244,000 positions in April, but the unemployment rate inched up to …

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate will launch a 30-day pilot in the New Orleans area in partnership with law enforcement and emergency management agencies in the region to test the latest portable, multi-band radio …

Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to build a robot or system design based on the firm’s latest sensor development kit. In other …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.2010 was a good year for start-ups seeking money. More than …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Forget about chutzpah … the tech sector in Israel has two …

British chip firm ARM Holdings has been granted a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its contributions to innovation as the world’s leading supplier of low power, high performance semiconductor IP. Affectionately known as the “British Chippie” by the U.K.’s …

April 18 2011 – 6:52 pm ET | Sylvie Barak | RCR Wireless News Texas Instruments Inc has blamed the Japanese earthquake for its disappointing financial results, which came in below analyst estimates. The chipmaker disclosed first-quarter revenue of $3.39 …

Texas Instruments Inc has blamed the Japanese earthquake for its disappointing financial results, which came in below analyst estimates. The chipmaker disclosed first-quarter revenue of $3.39 billion, down from $3.525 billion last quarter. It also posted net income of $666 …