| Analog soars in Asia
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2008-03-17 |
| There is no doubt that Asia will achieve greater heights with greater products for the connected world. |
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| Garmin embeds ST processors in navigation products
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2008-03-13 |
| STMicroelectronics' Cartesio automotive-grade application processor SoC with embedded GPS will be implemented inside several products from Garmin, including the company's new n?vi 205 navigation system. |
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| India manufacturing gets boost from NXP
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2008-03-11 |
| NXP Semiconductors India targets to boost the Indian manufacturing ecosystem for wireless handsets and is looking into alternative markets for its semiconductors. |
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| Survey: Americans find cellphones hardest to give up
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2008-03-11 |
| A survey by Pew Internet Project shows that Americans find cellphones hardest to give up, followed by the Internet, TV and landline phones |
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| Will mobile TV in China be in analog
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2008-03-07 |
| Telegent Systems claims that analog—not digital—will dominate the mobile TV market, especially in developing countries like China |
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| TI shifts focus to medical, energy, safety apps
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2008-03-04 |
| TI intends to go after the medical, energy and safety markets with a laser-sharp focus on low-power processing and advanced analog/mixed-signal building blocks. |
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| Optimism stirs in mobile TV market
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2008-02-19 |
| Calling 2007 'a rock-bottom year' for mobile TV, DiBcom CEO Yannick Levy said he is hoping that things will start to get a little better this year |
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| A/V, memory glitz and glam at IIC-China
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2008-02-19 |
| This year's IIC-China will gather over 240 international IC tycoons and local manufacturers to showcase their latest and offerings to satisfy the increasing demand for high-quality and high-definition consumer electronics. |
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| Renesas, Sharp, Powerchip enter LCD driver JV
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2008-02-15 |
| Renesas Technology, Sharp and Powerchip Semiconductor have agreed to establish a joint venture on Apr. 1, specializing in drivers and controllers for small- and mid-size LCDs. |
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| NXP steps up wireless business initiatives
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2008-02-15 |
| NXP Semiconductors targets to bring clarity to its once-sprawling wireless business strategy under a new wireless business management. |
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| Tech firms demo slew of Android prototypes
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2008-02-14 |
| Several versions of Google's Android platform-based cellphones were showcased at the Mobile World Congress, but few were impressed after seeing Nokia's fresh rollout of multimedia phones |
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| Analyst: Future bleak for mobile equipment vendors
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2008-02-13 |
| Reports from Analysys Research suggest that the lack of a compelling business case for 3G network enhancements, combined with an increase in network sharing, will have a profound impact on the cellular network infrastructure market. |
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| Media funds may soon shift to mobiles
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2008-02-13 |
| Pertti Kasanen, Nokia Siemens Networks manager of end user solutions, purported at the Mobile World Congress that when media services go mobile, they drain some or all of the associated revenue from older, fixed-line services |
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| SanDisk, SK Telecom team on card-based mobile TV solution
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2008-02-13 |
| SanDisk and SK Telecom have completed the development of a new solution for mobile TV and mobile personal video recorder capability |
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| Hitachi eyes healthy future for hard drives
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2008-02-13 |
| Overcoming stiff price wars and competitive upheavals from emerging storage technologies, the hard disk drive sector continues to rebound with renewed optimism. This bodes well for HDD makers such as Hitachi GST. |
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| SiRF enters multimedia market, eyes gPhone
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2008-02-12 |
| SiRF Technology is entering the competitive multimedia phone race with a new multifunction platform called SiRFprima, which the company hopes would find its way into Google's gPhone. |
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| Report: China handset shipments slowing down
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2008-02-12 |
| Mobile handset shipments from manufacturers headquartered in China will slow this year by 19.7 percent, dropping to 274 million units, reports iSuppli Corp |
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| ABI: DTV receiver market up for 32% growth by 2013
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2008-02-08 |
| The global terrestrial DTV receiver market will grow from 65 million units in 2007 to more than 350 million units in 2013, representing a CAGR of 32 percent. |
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| SIA: Chip sales hit new record with $255.6B in 2007
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2008-02-05 |
| Global sales of semiconductors grew for the sixth-consecutive year, reaching a record $255.6 billion in 2007, up 3.2 percent from the $247.7 billion reported in 2006, according to SIA. |
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| Motorola mulls separating mobile unit
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2008-02-04 |
| After its mobile devices business posted 38 percent decline in Q4 '07, Motorola said last week it is considering separating the unit from its other businesses, according to an Associated Press report |
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| ARC pushes mobile multimedia SoC design
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2008-02-01 |
| Configurable-core developer ARC International is refining a development platform that it says will change the way mobile multimedia systems are designed. ARC technologists described elements of the platform at the company's ConfigCon development conference held in California in December 2007 |
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| It's a full house for digital TV links
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2008-02-01 |
| Consumer electronics companies are asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to mandate that their products be given access to applications and services running on the headend systems of cable TV providers |
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| SK Telecom to bring Hollywood movies to handsets
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2008-01-31 |
| South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom has signed a deal Sony Pictures Television International to offer the latest movie content to its mobile subscribers |
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| Nokia Siemens bags mobile TV deal in Indonesia
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2008-01-29 |
| Nokia Siemens Networks has partnered with Global Mediacom to launch a commercial broadcast mobile TV service, based on DVB-H technology, in Indonesia in the first half of 2008 |
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| Infineon RFIC equips Panasonic car TV tuner
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2008-01-28 |
| An RF tuner IC from Infineon Technologies AG is being used by Panasonic Electronic Devices Co. Ltd for its digital car television tuner. |
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| AMD beefs up Xilleon chips with DivX video tech
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2008-01-22 |
| DivX and AMD have signed a licensing agreement that will allow AMD to include DivX video technology in its Xilleon processors to power next-generation DTVs worldwide. |
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| Infineon CEO: Chipmakers must build systems, not fabs
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2008-01-21 |
| To survive the wave of consolidation rolling over the semiconductor industry, companies must shift their focus from building fabs to building systems, and they must engage with customers at deep technical levels, according to Wolfgang Ziebart, Infineon CEO. |
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| France to tax 'new means of communication'
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2008-01-21 |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced advertising on public TV and radio would cease, and lost revenue would be compensated by an additional tax on new means of communication like Internet access or mobile telephony |
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| Digital living room challenge: Make devices talk wirelessly
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2008-01-17 |
| Since a full suite of HDTVs, DVD players and cameras are now being delivered by consumer electronics companies into the digital living room, the question of how best to connect them wirelessly arises. |
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| Comms, CE markets show great promise
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2008-01-16 |
| Taiwan's display, communications and CE industries delivered many surprises. With global TV digitalization approaching, the future looks bright for the entire display industry |
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