Qualcomm buys two chip businesses
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Wireless technology firm Qualcomm Inc.  said on Monday it was buying two micro-chip businesses to boost its core wireless technology product offerings.
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Qualcomm is betting on its Code Division Multiple Access cellular technology.
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FAB-LESS CHIP SUPPLIER, Qualcomm, has gained a useful toe-up into the European/GSM market through its acquisition of Cambridge, UK based Trigenix - formerly known as 3G Lab.
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Purchase of equipment-monitoring specialist intended to broaden Qualcomm's range of "machine intelligence" services.
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Broadcom Corp. and Verizon Wireless Inc. have reached a deal that will allow Verizon to continue importing and selling mobile handsets that are at the center of an ongoing legal battle between Broadcom and Qualcomm Inc.
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In another indication that one of the most heated intellectual property disputes in the history of telecommunications could end up a near-wash for both sides, a US District Court ruled late last week that two major handset manufacturers will be allowed to export devices with Broadcom chips to the US, despite a pending patent infringement lawsuit from Qualcomm.
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Cell phone chip maker Qualcomm and  memory chip maker Spansion Inc. announced a partnership on  Tuesday to make cheaper sets of semiconductors that will help  reduce the cost of affordable phones for CDMA networks for  emerging markets by as much as 25 percent in 2007.
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A federal jury found Qualcomm Inc.  guilty of infringing three patents owned by smaller rival Broadcom Corp.  and it awarded Broadcom $19.6 million in damages on Tuesday, the companies said.
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Qualcomm is acquiring leading WiFi engineering firm Airgo Networks, and will be marketing Airgo's upcoming "802.11n Draft 2.0-compliant" chipset. Airgo was striking out on its own; now it has a huge backer behind it, in what promises to be a fierce battle with Intel for the mobile wireless broadband platform turf.
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Qualcomm made a clear statement about its vision for future mobile devices on Monday by buying SoftMax, a provider of noise-reduction algorithms.SoftMax&#39;s technology works with multiple microphones to suppress background noise, separate the speaker&#39;s voice from that noise, and cancel echoes, all to make voice calls more intelligible. The battle for better sound was stepped up recently when Motorola delivered a system called CrystalTalk, with a similar aim, in its Razr2 line of phones.The SoftMax Signal Separation technology broadens Qualcomm&#39;s toolset for devices, including mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, VoIP phones, and notebooks, according to a company statement. It consumes less battery life, processing power, and memory than alternatives, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Qualcomm was not immediately able to provide more details of its plans for SoftMax.SoftMax already has deals with mobile operator SK Telecom and with communications chipmaker Broadcom, which is&#160;embroiled in a fierce legal battle with Qualcomm over various patents. Qualcomm may have acquired SoftMax as much for its engineers and intellectual property as for its current products, said analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts.Similarly,&#160;Qualcomm acquired wireless broadband vendor Flarion&#160;last year just for its team and OFDMA (orthogonal frequency-division multiplex access) technology, Strauss said. That company&#39;s intellectual property is expected to be valuable as OFDMA technologies including WiMax and&#160;LTE (Long-Term Evolution)&#160;become widely adopted. In addition, it would have been hard to simply recruit top-notch talent in a field as obscure as noise reduction, Strauss said. Qualcomm is probably looking both to integrate SoftMax&#39;s algorithms in its own single-chip systems for devices and to license them to other hardware vendors, Strauss said.Privately held SoftMax is based in Qualcomm&#39;s hometown of San Diego and was founded in 1998 by scientists from The Salk Institute and from the University of California at San Diego, where Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs is a former professor and endowed the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1997.
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SAN DIEGO -- Qualcomm Inc. boosted its earnings guidance for the first quarter and sees revenue at the high end of its prior estimate based on higher shipments of MSM phone chips.
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(InfoWorld) - Qimonda, one of the world's largest DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip makers, plans to invest â¬400 million ($525.3 million) on two chip factories in Asia, the company said Thursday. The German chip maker plans to double the capacity of a memory chip assembly plant in Suzhou, China by adding a second building on its site, at a total investment of â¬250 million over the next three years. Construction will begin this month. The company will hire about 1,300 more people to staff the new factory building. Qimonda will also invest â¬150 million over five years on a DRAM module assembly plant in Johor, Malaysia, near the border to Singapore, the company said in a statement. Construction is planned for the middle of this year, with production expected to commence in 2008. The new site will require 3,000 employees.
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Broadcom Corp and Verizon Wireless  said on Thursday they had reached a licensing deal to allow  Verizon to continue to import and sell mobile phones that are  the subject of a patent dispute with Qualcomm.
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A federal jury found Qualcomm Inc.   guilty of infringing three patents owned by smaller  rival Broadcom Corp.  and it awarded Broadcom $19.6  million in damages on Tuesday, the companies said.
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LONDON - Qualcomm Inc. has bought Trigenix, a British startup specializing in software that lets mobile network operators adjust the menus on handsets, for $36 million in cash.
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Qualcomm is buying SoftMax, a provider of noise-reduction technology.
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Qualcomm (Quote, Chart) is in talks to acquire a semiconductor design firm to help satisfy demand for its third-generation CDMA (define) wireless devices, the company said Thursday.