Joint venture brings “top three” mobile chipset player
Friday, April 11th, 2008Silicon vendors NXP and STMicroelectronics are to spin out their respective mobile chip businesses to create a new joint venture company worth US$3 billion. The companies say combining operations will create a top three industry player that will have strong relationships with all the major handset manufacturers and able to exploit economies of scale at [...]
Global mobile phone platform industry report, 2007-2008
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Research and Markets announced the new Global Mobile Phone Platform (Baseband) Industry Report, 2007-2008. At present, the main global mobile phone baseband manufacturers include Texas Instruments or TI, Ericsson Mobile Platform, Qualcomm, MTK, NXP, Freescale, Infineon, Broadcom and Spreadtrum. Depending on the cooperation with Nokia in 2G Era, TI created a win-win situation for the [...]
First Sub-$100 3G Linux mobile phone
Thursday, January 31st, 2008NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, and Purple Labs, a leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones, jointly announced today the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsingand video streaming at a transfer price below US$100. The new Purple Magic phone [...]
