Infineon to develop 3G chip for Motorola
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German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon  said on Tuesday it signed an agreement to develop a new multi-mode, single-chip 3G radio frequency (RF) transceiver based on its own SMARTi UE chip.
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T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest US mobile carrier, is expected to announce plans on Friday to deploy a nationwide 3G wireless network.
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Communications giant Motorola Inc. said Thursday it received a three-year contract extension from Nextel Communications Inc. to continue supplying telecommunications infrastructure for Nextel&#39;s iDEN walkie-talkie phones through 2007.
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A group of mobile phone operators and handset vendors is developing a 3G (third-generation) mobile phone platform that combines many standard hardware and software components in an effort to reduce phone development time and costs.
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan&#39;s top mobile-phone carrier, and Motorola Inc., the world&#39;s No. 2 cell-phone maker, plan to develop a next-generation mobile phone that subscribers in Japan can also use while traveling in
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InfoWorld - Motorola&#39;s venture capital arm has invested in Amimon, an Israeli company that designs chips for wirelessly transmitting high-definition video.
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IBM and Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek on Monday announced a three-year pact to develop wireless chip sets for a new technology to transmit large volumes of information, such as full-length high definition (HD) movies, between DVD players, HD-TVs, hand-held devices, or other gadgets around the home or office.The chip sets will use IBM Labs&#39; mmWave (millimeter wave) radio technology as a faster wireless networking alternative to Wi-Fi.The companies will promote mmWave as a way to eliminate wires between HD-TVs, set-top boxes, DVD players, and PCs.They will focus their efforts on improving the range of mmWave technology, and developing a manufacturing technique for the chip sets, said David Faircloth, vice-president of sales and distribution for global engineering solutions at IBM Asia Pacific.IBM has spent the past four years developing mmWave technology. Last year, the company demonstrated prototype chip sets the size of a U.S. dime able to wirelessly transmit uncompressed HD video.The U.S. technology giant will work with MediaTek to further develop the chip sets. IBM will put its mmWave radio chips, antenna, and package technology and patents into the venture, while MediaTek will bring its expertise in digital baseband and video processing chips to the table, the companies said in a joint statement.Once the chip sets are ready, IBM and MediaTek will both work with global electronics partners to adopt mmWave technology in their products. MediaTek has had great success in selling mobile phone and baseband chips in China, a market most companies globally are itching to take advantage of. The Taiwanese company is estimated to be the largest mobile chip set provider in the country by some analysts.Over the course of the development project, IBM and MediaTek expect to move the chip set from the existing 130-nanometer manufacturing process on silicon germanium, to a 65 nm manufacturing process on the most widely used chip manufacturing technology, CMOS (Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor).The companies face hurdles with mmWave. They will have to develop an entire ecosystem for the technology, including gaining acceptance for its use in products, possible industry standards and radio spectrum space. They will also have to pit it against potent rivals, including WiMax wireless broadband, which is also faster than Wi-Fi. WiMax is backed by a number of heavy hitters, including Intel and Motorola.Faircloth said IBM&#39;s market influence can help with building an ecosystem around the technology, and pointed out that both IBM and MediaTek can turn to global partners to help with adoption of the technology as well.IBM was not immediately able to answer questions about the performance of mmWave transmitting data wirelessly through walls or other barriers inside a home or office.Most of the work on the mmWave chip sets will take place in three locations, at IBM&#39;s TJ Watson Research Center, IBM&#39;s Tokyo Research Lab, and MediaTek&#39;s Hsinchu facility, and involve engineers from both companies.
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Texas Instruments reported Thursday that it is developing a single chip for digital TV that will bring broadcast signals to cell phones.
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Texas Instruments Inc.  has begun developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile phone screens in three years.
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Wireless speeds of 300 Mbps downstream. That&#39;s the goal of &quot;Super 3G&quot; experiments that Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo will begin this month.
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TOKYO Motorola and NTT DoCoMo said on Wednesday that they would jointly develop third-generation cellphones, giving the American company an important foothold in the Japanese market.
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Motorola Inc (MOT.N), the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it would explore strategic alternatives including a possible separation of its mobile devices business from its other units.
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Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has begun developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile phone screens in three years.
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Japan&#39;s NTT DoCoMo will join hands with Cingular Wireless of the United States, aiming to unify technical specifications for third-generation (3G) cellphones and services.
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NTT DoCoMo, top mobile phone carrier in Japan, and Motorola Inc., worldâs number two cell-phone maker, plans to develop third-generation cell phones that allow subscribers in Japan to use services in other parts of Asia and Europe.
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The quad-band Motorola (NYSE: MOT) RAZR V3 from Cingular Wireless is an ultra-slim, GSM/GPRS messaging phone with an internal antenna that features a 2.2-inch, high-resolution color screen, a 3D graphics engine, a push-to-talk radio and global roaming capabilities courtesy of the onboard SIM card.
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Motorola Inc , the world&#039;s  second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it had  agreed to buy Britain&#039;s TTP Communications , which  develops software for 3G applications, for 103 million pounds  (&#36;193.5 million).