| IDC: Worldwide market for handhelds continues decline
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2005-11-02 |
| The global market for handheld devices continues its year-over-year decline in Q3 of 2005, according to the latest report from IDC. The Worldwide Handheld QView report shows that handheld shipments declined by 16.9% year-over-year and dropped sequentially to 1.6 million units in Q3. |
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| Qualcomm to roll 65-nm chips in 2006
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2005-10-19 |
| Hoping to keep up with Texas Instruments Inc. and others in the wireless-baseband market, Qualcomm Inc. said it plans to implement 65nm process technology for its cellphone chipsets starting in the first half of 2006. |
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| RF renaissance in Taiwan
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2005-10-17 |
| Now that the stakes in the RF realm are getting higher every day as it moves beyond high-end military applications right into the heart of commercial gadgetry, Taiwan firms are preparing to have another go at it. |
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| Mobile phone users demand decent batteries
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2005-09-26 |
| Forget 3G, mobile TV, GPS and MP3 capability. What users really want in their mobile phones and PDAs is two days' worth of battery life for active use |
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| Amkor to test RF tuners using Agilent's 93000 system
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2005-09-22 |
| Amkor Technology Inc. has obtained a 93000 RF system from Agilent Technologies Inc. to be installed at its IC test facility in Singapore. |
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| Silicon germanium process heralds fast RF
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2005-09-16 |
| Commodity RF ICs may ride to unheard-of frequencies on the strength of a new SiGe BiCMOS process. |
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| Indian design group seeks funds for ramp
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2005-09-08 |
| Mistral Software, an eight-year old firm based here and into embedded software and hardware development for the consumer electronics, telecoms, defense and automotive applications plans to make decisions on a merger, acquisition or infusion of venture funds by the year-end. |
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| RF ICs can be quite complex
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2005-09-08 |
| According to one industry analyst, the worldwide handset RF semiconductor market is expected to grow from $5.3 billion in 2004 to $8.26 billion in 2008 |
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| Infineon defends memory stance
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2005-09-02 |
| Allaying recent rumors about plans to spin off its memory unit, Infineon Technologies AG defended the business despite a lackluster outllook for the sector. |
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| eRide offers IC design services with NewLogic support
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2005-09-02 |
| eRide Inc. has selected NewLogic Technologies for complex digital, mixed-signal and RF chip developments. |
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| Four GB drive protects head from fall
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2005-09-01 |
| Cornice's hard-disk drive has head-retraction features that protect storage media when the drive is dropped. |
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| CEC Telecom Co. forms partnership for GPS/GSM phones in China
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2005-08-18 |
| China telecom product supplier CEC Telecom Co. Ltd has joined with the telecommunications operator China Communication Co. Ltd and technology supplier Shenzhen Rongine Technology Ltd to manufacture satellite navigation terminal products, including GPS/GSM mobile phones, for the China market |
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| MEMS work uses polysilicon-germanium over CMOS
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2005-08-11 |
| A gyroscope developed under a European Commission supported project, is intended to serve as a demonstrator of a combined MEMS sensor and signal conditioning circuit. |
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| Fujitsu to ship structured ASIC built using Cadence
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2005-08-03 |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. (FMA) will ship initial production volumes of structured ASIC using Cadence Encounter digital IC implementation this month. |
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| O2Micro receives U.S. patent for inverter circuits
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2005-07-11 |
| O2Micro Int. Ltd was granted 4 claims under U.S. patent number 6,897,698 for its phase shifting and pulse width modulation (PWM) driving circuits and methods |
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