Mediatek plans to acquire 40% to 48% of MStar through the offer Taiwanese semiconductor giant MediaTek has agreed to acquire smaller rival MStar Semiconductor in a combination of stock and cash deal worth $3.8bn. MediaTek is offering ...
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About 792 million flash memory units will be shipped for smartphones compared to 703 million units shipped for feature phones The number of NAND flash memory shipment for smartphones will overtake feature phones by 2013 with rising ...
RF component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched has introduced the AWB7129 small-cell power amplifier (PA), which is optimized for Band 8 WCDMA and LTE applications, including picocells, enterprise-class femtocells, and ...
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Nokia continues to expand its line-up of advanced feature phones with the Asha 205,with a dedicated Facebook button allowing users to more easily access the social networking site. While Nokia is trying to revive its fortunes in the ...
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AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
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Nokia's Nearby location app has exited beta testing, and is now available in the phone maker's app store, as it continues to push location services across its range of phones. Nearby is a free Web-based application for finding the nearest ...
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Google has admitted it will incur costs of $300m as "severance-related charges" following its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Google revealed in August it would be slashing 20% of the Motorola workforce, as it planned to move away from ...
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Samsung will announce a 5-in.Galaxy S4 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February,according to company officials and executives at parts suppliers quoted in The Korea Times. While an S4 announcement early next year was long ...
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Apple has won its high-stakes intellectual property infringement suit against Samsung. The court in the US state of California,where Apple is based,found that Samsung infringed six out of seven Apple patents,while backing Apple's claim ...
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RFMD starts shipping power amplifiers for LTE version of Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA has begun production shipments of power amplifiers(PAs)to Samsung in support of its next-generation Galaxy ...
Google is to lay off 20%of the Motorola Mobility workforce with 4,000 redundancies worldwide,two-thirds of that number coming from outside the US. The company said it intends to ditch its standard phones as part of the move."Motorola ...
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Google is to cut Motorola Mobility's global workforce by about 4,000,or 20 per cent,and will look to close about a third of its 94 worldwide offices. A Motorola spokesperson confirmed the job cuts in a statement and stated that the ...
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Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
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20 June 2012 NXP's 0.65mm x 0.44mm x 0.2mm SiGe:C GPS LNAs offer 0.60dB noise figure NXP Semiconductors N.V.of Eindhoven,The Netherlands,which provides mixed-signal and standard product solutions,has unveiled the BGU8006 low-noise ...
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Revenues for high-brightness Leds grew by a remarkable 108% to $11.2 billion in 2010, according to new market report “High-Brightness LED Market Review and Forecast-2011” by Strategies Unlimited. The growth was propelled by ...