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Chartered's Waite regains health--now for the stock price
News Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd chief executive Barry Waite wasted little time getting back on track after surgery in early March. A week after doctors removed a lump from his heart, the 52-year-old was on the treadmill, trying to whip himself back into shape.
STMicroelectronics may overtake Motorola in chips
News STMicroelectronics NV may overtake Motorola Inc to become the world's sixth-largest chipmaker as its focus on digital products allows it to outperform rivals relying on computer chip sales, analysts say.
IBM to sell advanced chips to Chinese Internet builder Huawei
News International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer maker, said it will be the prime supplier of advanced chips and components to the main builder of China's Internet system.
Skyhook teams up with Texas Instruments
News Skyhook's hybrid Wi-Fi/GPS location technology will soon be used in Texas Instruments chips for mobile devices to get more accurate location information.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Mobile processors, Apple Inc., Satellite, Texas Instruments Inc., Positioning, GPS, Skyhook Wireless, phone, Wi-Fi
Qualcomm, Freescale bet on 'smartbooks'
News The rival chipmakers are attacking the Intel-Microsoft dominance in netbooks by marketing small laptops with a name that suggests a smartphone.
Tags: Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Smart Phone, Chip Company, Sales, netbook sale, marketing
Texas Instruments to launch energy-efficient chips
News The chipmaker says the Piccolo line of microcontrollers can reduce power consumption in home appliances, hybrid cars, LED lighting and solar panels.
Tags: Processors, Texas Instruments Inc., Chip, Air Conditioner, solar panel, energy efficiency, LED lighting, hybrid car, pollution, marketing
Sun, TI predict revenue drop as credit crunch bites
News The companies have both predicted a decline in revenue year-on-year, and cite current economic difficulties as the cause.
Tags: Processors, Servers, Hardware, Sales/revenue, Earning reports/forecasts, IBM Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., EMEA, Wireless, GAAP
USB 3.0 is ready to go
News The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB has been published by the USB Implementers Forum.
Tags: Components, Hardware, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Specification, USB Flash Drive, USB
TI, Broadcom add to warnings chorus
News Chipmakers Texas Instruments and Broadcom are the latest companies to dramatically cut current quarter estimates amid the global economic slowdown.
Tags: Mobile processors, Earning reports/forecasts, Digital Television, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Broadcom Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Electronics, Chip Company, revenue
Texas Instruments sheds 3,400 jobs
News The job cuts follow a 95 percent year-on-year drop in quarterly profits, largely attributable to declining sales of chips for mobile phones.
Tags: Layoffs, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Handhelds, Texas Instruments Inc., Semiconductor, Wireless, digital signal processor, processor, job, revenue
Philippine semicon on way up after 'hitting bottom'
News Philippine semiconductor market--country's top export earner--on road to recovery with exports climbing from 0.76 percent to 9 percent in first quarter of 2009.
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Integrated Circuit, Texas Instruments Inc., Electronics, Philippines, Electronics Industry, Semiconductor, Pacific, SEIPI
Lucent, Motorola, Texas Instruments win China phone contracts
News Lucent Technologies Inc, Motorola Inc and Texas Instruments Inc have won separate tenders from China's Ministry of Information Industry to make a new generation of cellular phones for the country's phone market.
