Qualcomm acquires Spike Tech for $19 m
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California-based Qualcomm Inc, the worldâs largest provider of code division multiple access (CDMA) technology, has acquired Spike Technologies Inc for $19 million.
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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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InfoWorld - Qualcomm made a clear statement about its vision for future mobile devices on Monday by buying SoftMax, a provider of noise-reduction algorithms.
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Qualcomm , the world's top mobile chip designer, said on Wednesday China recently passed Japan to become its second largest Asian market, as it unveiled a major tie-up with leading smartphone maker HTC .
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French telecommunications equipment vendor Alcatel on Friday snapped up two US technology firms in acquisitions that will add wireless switching and IP conferencing technology to its portfolio.
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Alcatel plans to acquire US-based mobile infrastructure company Spatial Wireless in a deal valued at $250 million. The agreement gives Alcatel an avenue to expand in the US gear market.
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Sprint Nextel said yesterday it will acquire affiliate Northern PCS in a deal worth $312.5 million, the seventh such purchase for the wireless company in the past two years.
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The chip company makes a major deal to reach a new market.
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Alamosa Holdings Inc. APCS.O will  acquire AirGate PCS Inc. PCSA.O for $392 million in stock  creating the largest Sprint Corp. FON.N wireless affiliate,  the companies said on Wednesday.
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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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Qualcomm Inc  posted a  quarterly profit that rose 24 percent on Wednesday, handily  beating Wall Street estimates on strong demand for high-end  mobile phones using its chips and technology licenses.
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Alcatel has expanded its foothold in the  key North American market with the acquisition of a mobile  software provider and a conference technology business for $277  million.
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(InfoWorld) - Despite attacks on its business model, including a particularly rancorous battle with Nokia, Qualcomm said its revenue will be higher than expected for its fiscal second quarter. Instead of pro forma revenue of $2 billion to $2.1 billion, Qualcomm expects to report $2.1 billion to $2.2 billion for its second quarter, which ends April 1. The new estimate is based on better-than-expected shipments of Qualcomm's Mobile Station Modem chips as well as CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access) and WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) chips. Despite growing mobile phone penetration in Europe and North America, sales of CDMA2000 and WCDMA were particularly strong in those regions, Qualcomm said. Qualcomm competitor Texas InstrumentsÂ (TI) doesn't expect to have done quite as well in the quarter. On Monday, TI revised its expectations for revenue in the first quarter of this year to be potentially lower. Instead of $3.01 billion to $3.28 billion, TI said revenue will likely fall between $3.07 billion and $3.22 billion. Qualcomm's raised expectations come amid attacks on its business. A group of vendors, including Nokia, filed a complaint with the European Commission in late 2005 charging Qualcomm with anticompetitive behavior. Nokia and others claim that Qualcomm isn't licensing its technology that contributes to certain industry standards on a fair basis, as promised. Qualcomm is also involved in renegotiations with Nokia regarding their contract, which expires April 7. That renegotiation process has been marred by patent infringement lawsuits that Qualcomm has filed against Nokia in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, as well as with the International Trade Commission. Qualcomm has also been at battle with chipmaker Broadcom. The two settled some of their patent claims against each other recently but are still arguing over others. Qualcomm expects additional solid growth in the future in part due to a couple of developments. The GSM Association chose an LG Electronics handset that uses a Qualcomm chipset in a contest to supply a low-cost 3G phone to participating operators around the globe. In addition, Verizon WirelessÂ and AT&T have said they'll use Qualcomm's mobile TV platform.
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The wireless service provider offered more than $5 billion in stock for rival Leap.
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Filling in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi integration Qualcomm has spent well in excess of $40m readying itself for a world beyond CDMA.â¦
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Regional cell phone operator MetroPCS said Tuesday it wants to buy rival Leap Wireless in a stock deal valued at over $5 billion.
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In the wake of a patent battle between Broadcom and Qualcomm, a Verizon deal with Broadcom enables it to continue to import certain devices work with its 3G EV-DO network.