| Analysis: SiRF's ticket to survival
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2009-06-17 |
| SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. is not in a good place. The GPS chip supplier faces a declining market for PNDs; increasingly tougher competition for design-wins in mobile handsets; and on-going legal entanglements with Global Locate |
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| ST-Ericsson, Samsung boost China mobile broadband
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2009-06-15 |
| ST-Ericsson and its China subsidiary T3G have strengthened their strategic partnership with Samsung Mobile by providing the first TD-HSDPA and Edge platform for Samsung's high-end devices. |
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| u-blox gets China handsets GPS-enabled
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2009-06-11 |
| China mobile phone solutions provider Gionee Communications has selected u-blox's GPS receiver chip for their new series of GPS-enabled feature phones |
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| Analysts, execs, editors see double-digit drop in '09
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2009-06-09 |
| The Semiconductor Industry Association and World Semiconductor Trade Statistics association both issued revised forecasts calling for 2009 chip revenue to drop more than 21 percent. |
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| MEMS find place GPS, mobile apps
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2009-06-04 |
| MEMS sensors are increasingly being integrated into phones, MP3 players, GPS units, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), portable medical scanners and all sorts of greentech products |
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| AnalogicTech stays 'fabless without foundries'
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2009-05-21 |
| To explain the current issues in analog, EE Times caught up with Richard Williams, president, CEO and chief technology officer of Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc., a fabless analog chip vendor. |
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| ST revenues up in flat car infotainment market
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2009-05-20 |
| Defying a flat year for the global automotive infotainment semiconductor market, STMicroelectronics NV achieved double-digit revenue growth in 2008 due in part to the success of its Cartesio product, a combined media processor and GPS baseband chip, according to iSuppli Corp |
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| Mobile computing, CE apps propel GPS growth
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2009-05-04 |
| Although mobile handset are set continue to dominate shipments of devices with integrated GPS, the next growth spurt will come from mobile consumer electronics (CE) and mobile computing applications, according to a new In-Stat report |
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| Bluetooth 3.0 rides 24Mbit/s over 802.11
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2009-04-23 |
| The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released the Bluetooth 3.0 specification supporting data rates up to 24Mbit/s over a shared 802.11 radio. |
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| Google's Android gets an upgrade
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2009-04-20 |
| Developers got their first look at an upgrade to the Android environment as the Open Handset Alliance made available for download what it called an early version of a software developer kit for Android 1.5 sporting a host of generally small but significant new features. |
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| Report: Another China GPS satellite takes off
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2009-04-17 |
| China's space administration has announced the launch of its navigational satellite, the second in a series of up to 30 orbiters to comprise a GPS network, according to the AFP report |
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| New JEDEC standard doubles memory interface performance
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2009-04-17 |
| JEDEC Solid State Technology Association announced the publication of JESD84-A44 MMC ver. 4.4 standard. The new standard offers designers a doubling of the memory interface performance, flexible partition management and improved security options. |
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| MEMS fire up component revolution
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2009-04-16 |
| Semiconductor vendors are in either in the MEMS sector or will be out of business; that was the stark assertion that came out of a panel session at the recent Globalpress Electronics Summit. |
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| New standard to reduce handhelds' power consumption
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2009-04-09 |
| JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced the publication of JESD209-2 LPDDR2 Low Power Memory Device Standard. The standard will enhance the design of mobile devices by enabling increased memory density, improved performance, smaller size, overall reduction in power consumption as well as a longer battery life. |
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| GPS IC year-on-year growth rate slackens
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2009-03-20 |
| Shipments of GPS semiconductors will increase 15 percent on a unit basis in 2009 compared with the previous year. This growth rate is lower than the year-on-year growth experienced in 2007 and 2008, according to ABI Research |
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| Broadcom hailed as top GPS IC vendor
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2009-03-16 |
| Broadcom Corp. has been ranked at the top of the latest GPS IC Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research |
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| Handset-based navigation gains momentum
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2009-03-04 |
| While sales of high-end personal navigation devices (PNDs) and expensive in-dash navigation solutions are being hit hard by the economic recession, handset-based navigation is enjoying renewed momentum, with PND vendors hoping to take a piece of this fast-growing navigation segment. |
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| IP shipments to see double by 2012
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2009-03-02 |
| The Linley Group notes that the chip designers will continue to reduce cost and time-to-market by purchasing third-party IP instead of developing the technology in-house. |
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| The greatest mobile device design challenge: power management
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2009-02-24 |
| As we rely on mobile devices each day, the need for power efficiency increases. |
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| Notebooks to feature 3G Internet connectivity
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2009-02-24 |
| Sony Electronics Inc. has selected Qualcomm Inc.'s Gobi mobile Internet technology for use in Sony's Vaio notebook PC lines, thus enabling users to experience high-speed wireless Internet via 3G cellular connectivity. |
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| LG handset taps TrueTouch solution
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2009-02-24 |
| LG Electronics has selected Cypress Semiconductor Corp.'s TrueTouch touchscreen solution to implement a capacitive touchscreen interface in its new KS360 mobile handset. |
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| Industry welcomes ST-Ericsson JV
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2009-02-16 |
| The 50/50 joint venture that united the wireless semiconductor division of STMicroelectronics and the mobile platform division of Ericsson will move forward as ST-Ericsson, which has a combined pro-forma revenues of about $3.6 billion in 2008. |
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| MEMS accelerometers find place in CE
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2009-02-13 |
| Though MEMS accelerometer sales are likely to decrease to $846 million in 2009 due to a slump in automotive demand, ABI Research estimates that the market will recover to be worth $1.6 billion by 2012, fuelled by a boom in consumer applications. |
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| GPS module zooms into auto industry
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2009-02-04 |
| SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. and M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. have partnered to help create the networked GPS module that provides location information to the new generation vehicle-based communications and entertainment systems |
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| Virtus to push Hong Kong as logistics hub
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2009-02-02 |
| Virtus Asia Ltd and GS1 Hong Kong Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding where Virtus will team up with the Hong Kong RFID Centre, which was established to promote Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Region of China as a regional center for accelerated adoption of EPC/RFID technologies and other complementary technologies. |
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| ZTE picks Apexone's amplifiers for advanced handsets
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2009-01-27 |
| ZTE Corp., one of China's top handsets OEMs/ODMs providing mobile solutions to customers around the world, has selected Apexone Microelectronics' A7013 Class D audio amplifier. |
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| Power amplifiers on the hot seat
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2009-01-23 |
| A virtual "sit down" with some leaders in the industry discussed where power amplifier technology is, and where they think it is going. |
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| CES 2009 take-aways
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2009-01-22 |
| CES 2009 showcased many of the next generation consumer products that use IP blocks that we are developing. |
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| Programmable broadband heightens PC TV hype
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2009-01-21 |
| After searching many years for the yet-to-blossom mobile TV handset market, vendors are increasingly shifting their focus to the PC-TV market. |
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| ITC: SiRF infringed 6 GPS-related patents
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2009-01-19 |
| The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has affirmed an ITC administrative law judge's initial determination that SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. infringes three additional GPS-related patents held by Global Locate Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom Corp |
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