A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Nokia and Qualcomm burying the legal axe and Infineon facing job cuts, to TI outlining low power DSP moves and Cardiff solar cell plant investment...

Friday 25 July 2008

Infineon may cut 3,000 Jobs
Infineon is reported to be preparing to cut 3,000 jobs after losing $930m in Q2, principally due to losses at its DRAM manufacturing subsidiary Qimonda.

Bozotti forecasts 5 per cent growth, Penn says ten
Although Carlo Bozotti, CEO of STMicroelectronics, has cut his forecast for semiconductor industry growth this year to between four and five per cent, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons reckons: "We can't make it much less than 7 per cent growth this year, and the balance of probability is in the 10 per cent region."

Thursday 24 July 2008

Nokia, Qualcomm settle all wireless legal battles, enter 15-year agreement
Ending a bitter legal battle that spanned several continents, Nokia and Qualcomm have announced that they have entered into a 15-year agreement covering various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, and LTE.

No end in sight for Transputer architecture
The 30 year-old Transputer architecture is showing no sign of running out of steam, according to STMicroelectronics which took over Transputer development after buying Inmos from Thorn-EMI in 1989.

Sheffield-based chip firm gets boost from RapidIO design-ins
Jennic has reported a five-fold increase in sales of its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) licenses in the first half of the year.

Wednesday 23 July 2008

ATEEDA raises £750,000 investment
ATEEDA, the Edinburgh mixed signal test company with a tool which allows digital testers to test mixed signal chips, has got another £750,000 from backers Archangel Informal Investment and the Scottish Co-Investment Fund.

TI outlines low power DSP moves
Texas Instruments hopes to lay out its low power credentials with a number of new low power devices in its four main DSP product families.

German court invalidates Qualcomm patent
As the Nokia vs Qualcomm shoot-out opens later today in a Delaware courtroom, a German court has ruled that a Qualcomm’s GSM patent is invalid.

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Cardiff solar cell plant gets further $30m
Cardiff-based roll-to-roll solar cell maker G24 Innovations (G24) has raised a further $30m.

Agilent and picoChip in LTE femtocell tests
PicoChip and mimoOn have successfully tested a 3GPP LTE femtocell reference design using Agilent Technology's MXA signal analyser and vector signal analyser.

Monday 21 June 2008

SEMI Cold-Shoulders 450mm
The semiconductor industry cannot afford the R&D costs for both shrinking transistors and moving to 450mm wafers according to a report from Equipment Productivity Working Group (EPWG) of SEMI, the trade body of the semiconductor production equipment manufacturing industry.

PlayStation processor dominates green supercomputing
Computers based on the PlayStation's Cell processor dominate the world ranking for energy efficient supercomputers, according to the just-published Green500 list.

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