A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from the appointment of Alain Dutheil as the head of the jv ST-NXP Wireless, and mapping the UK radio environment, to MIPS moving on wireless handsets and rising fabless semi revenues...
Friday 27 June 2008
STMicroelectronics and NXP detail ST-NXP Wireless
The joint venture in wireless between STMicroelectronics and NXP in which ST has an 80 per cent share, will be headed up by Alain Dutheil, currently COO of ST. The company will be called ST-NXP Wireless.
Fabless semi revenue up 16% y/y in Q1 - GSA
The top 10 fabless companies by Q1 revenue combined to $7.8 billion, or 58% of total fabless revenue.
Thursday 26 June 2008
CRFS maps UK radio environment for Ofcom
Ofcom has hired Cambridge Radio Frequency Services to map the radio environment across the UK.
MIPS moves on wireless handsets
MIPS, the microprocessor IP licensing company, sees last year's acquisition of Portuguese IC design house, ChipIdea, as a route into the wireless handset market, and it sees video-to-the-handset as the opportunity for it to get its cores into mobile phones.
Scottish start-up Elonics backed by Wolfson founder
Elonics has secured a further $1m of series-A funding and amongst the new investors in the Scottish CMOS RF chip developer is David Milne, co-founder and former CEO of Wolfson Microelectronics.
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Intel Atom rounds off strong year for Imagination
Imagination Technologies has reported a strong year with revenues up 25% at £60m compared with 2007.
Applied defends SunFab thin film solar technology from patent threat
The semiconductor, display and solar panel manufacturing equipment giant Applied Materials says that it believes its SunFab thin film solar tandem junction technology does not infringe European Patent No. EP 0 871 979 issued to the University of Neuchatel.
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Spansion positions EcoRAM Mirrorbit NOR flash memory for servers
Spansion, the NOR flash manufacturer, has come up with a Mirrorbit NOR flash memory for servers, dubbed EcoRAM, which it claims can substantially cut the amount of energy used in Internet data centres.
Flexible bistable reflective LCDs shape up for production
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have demonstrated a flexible bistable reflective LCD suitable for mass production.
Nokia and Vodafone lead move for single mobile standard
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo have laid down a challenge to software giant Microsoft by creating an open mobile software platform which they hope will become the leading mobile phone operating system.
Monday 23 June 2008
Toshiba puts the Cell in laptops
The Cell microprocessor is going into laptops. Toshiba will use it in versions of its Qosmio laptops which start selling next month in Japan.
NEC, Elpida plan display driver IC joint venture
NEC Electronics and Elpida Memory have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company in the field of display driver ICs.
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