A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Qualcomm being bullish over strong 3G sales and TI buying an analogue specialist, to Intel facing a US probe over microprocessors and IBM increasing solar power with cool chips...

Friday 13 June 2008

Jaltek gets wireless body monitor with Hidalgo buy
Jaltek completes the acquisition of Cambridgeshire-based Hidalgo, a design services company specialising in RF comms and physiological monitoring systems.

MID IC demand to hit $2.6B in 2012
TI and Qualcomm are in the best positions to supply standalone applications processors for all classes of mobile Internet devices, according to Forward Concepts. It also estimates Intel has a better shot at ultra-portable PCs.

Thursday 12 June 2008

Qualcomm ups forecast with strong 3G sales
Qualcomm gave another boost to the semiconductor and wireless markets by increasing its forecast for revenues and profit in the third quarter and for the whole of the year.

TI buys analogue specialist
Texas Instruments has announced that it has acquired Innovative Design Solutions (IDS), an analogue chip specialist and longtime TI supplier.

LTE wireless modules smaller, less power-hungry than UMTS - NXP
LTE wireless modules will be smaller, lighter and less power-hungry than UMTS modules, according to NXP, which today launched its LTE chip-set capable of data transfer rates of 150 Mbits downlink and 50 Mbits uplink, and supporting LTE, HSPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM.

Wednesday 11 June 2008

IBM increases solar power with cool chips
IBM has used chip cooling techniques to gain more solar power from optical concentrating structures.

Agilent selects RS for distribution sales
Agilent Technologies has named RS Components as distribution partner for its test and measurement products in Europe.

Tuesday 10 June 2008

We ask ARM CEO: Is Intel catching up on low power?
With ARM shaping up to take on Intel for the mobile Internet device (MID) market, the smartphone market, the server market and, maybe further out, the laptop and desktop PC market, how is the battle shaping up?

Carclo reveals 10 and 20mm optical collimators for Lumileds and Cree LEDs
Berkshire-based Carclo revealed 10mm optical collimators for Lumileds' tiny Rebel power LEDs as well as 20 and 26.5mm forms for Cree's recently released four chip MC-E device.

Monday 9 June 2008

Intel faces US probe over microprocessors
Intel is maintaining that its business practices are "well within US law" after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launches an official probe into the leading chip maker.

Altera FPGAs get ColdFire soft core
Altera has added Freescale’s 32bit V1 ColdFire core to its library of FPGA soft cores.

Wolfson cuts power consumption of battery headphone amplifiers
Edinburgh-based Wolfson Microelectronics has significantly cut the typical power consumption of battery headphone amplifiers using variable voltage rails, claims company CTO Peter Frith.

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