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Compaq, Intel Team Up On Wireless
News Compaq on Wednesday said it will support Intel's Personal Internet Client Architecture (PCA), the chip giant's blueprint for making wireless phones and handhelds with Intel chips. Compaq also plans to build a mobile phone based on "Stinger...
[August 22, 2001, 16:56]
TI Shrinks Its Wi-Fi Chips
News Texas Instruments next week will unveil its first Wi-Fi chips specifically designed for mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs. Recent moves by Nokia to sell Wi-Fi phones and by cell phone service providers such as T-Mobile to add access to...
[September 2, 2002, 8:37]
Intel, Symbian Team Up On Wireless Devices
News Under the pact, Symbian, which markets the Symbian operating system for wireless devices, and chip giant Intel will work with software companies to develop applications for mobile phones and handheld computers that depend on Symbian's OS and chips...
[August 22, 2001, 9:54]
Qualcomm Adds Wi-Fi To Mobile Phones
News Qualcomm, which licenses mobile phone designs to manufacturers and makes chipsets, is the latest company to begin merging cell phones with the Wi-Fi wireless networks, which create a wireless network extending about 300 feet.
[July 30, 2002, 8:07]
Chipmakers To Debut Low-power Wi-Fi
News The new chips are based on the 802.11b wireless networking standard and will target manufacturers of portable devices, such as cell phones, handhelds and digital cameras, according to sources close to the companies' plans.
[September 8, 2003, 12:15]
Bluetooth Set For Takeoff
News Although the wireless connection technology failed to live up to the earlier hype, demand for Bluetooth -- which lets mobile phones, notebooks and other devices speak to each other within a 30-foot radius -- is starting to pick up, thanks to...
[July 11, 2002, 11:57]
TI Chief: Keep It Simple
News TI builds a wide range of digital signal processors (DSPs), the chips used behind the scenes to help refine signals, such as voice, for cell phones, handheld computers, digital-audio players and other devices.
[May 1, 2001, 9:15]
IBM Gives Silicon Germanium Chips A Speed Boost
News Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce the power consumption of chips that go into cellular phones and other wireless devices. The new chips will enable longer battery life and increased functionality in cellular...
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
Intel Touts Month-long Battery Life For Mobiles
News Ron Smith, vice president and general manager of Intel's Wireless Computing and Communications Group, predicted the process would enable such futuristic form factors as wearable computers and video watch phones.
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
Agere Chips Ring Up Wi-Fi Internet Phones
News Agere, formerly the microelectronics division of Lucent Technologies, claimed the chips improve the talk and standby times of wireless IP phones currently on the market. Wireless IP phones allow users to make cheap phone calls over a Wi-Fi-enabled...
[July 15, 2003, 11:50]
Programmable Chip Set To Cut Smartphone Costs
News This new processor, which has been in the works for several years, differs from other chips used in mobile phones because it's completely software-based and reprogrammable. They'll not only be able to support multiple connection technologies on...
[November 11, 2008, 8:05]
Broadcom, Verizon Wireless Agree 3G Phone Deal
News The ban, which still hasn't gone into effect, could have caused huge problems for Verizon Wireless, which sells phones that use Qualcomm's 3G chips. Specifically, Broadcom and Verizon Wireless said on Thursday they have agreed to a deal by which...
[July 20, 2007, 11:39]
Intel Crams More Memory Into Mobiles
News The StrataFlash Wireless Memory System essentially lets phone makers insert four memory chips into the same confined space where only one or two chips now fit, said Curt Nichols, vice president and general manager of the flash products group at...
[October 14, 2003, 8:45]
PC Industry To Revive In 2003
News In 2003, large companies will begin to buy PCs again, and consumers will be increasingly eager to snap up mobile phones, according to financial analysts WR Hambrecht and Co. This is due to sustained demand from China, as well Nokia's introduction...
[January 6, 2003, 15:30]
ARM Hands New Chip Design To Intel, TI
News Although video on cell phones is already in its infancy, TI wireless executive Gilles Delfassy said architectures like the v6 are needed to make the quality sufficiently clear and the battery life long enough to make such uses gain widespread...
[July 31, 2001, 9:18]
Intel Ups Stakes For Wi-Fi Chips
News Chipmakers Atheros, Broadcom and Royal Philips Electronics are also working on Wi-Fi chips for portable devices, including mobile phones. The move into new areas comes as Intel, which according to Otellini is the market leader in shipments of Wi-Fi...
[November 21, 2003, 9:55]
TI Waves Its Wireless Wanda
News Texas Instruments has introduced a new chipset and related design for making cell phones that can connect with three different kinds of wireless networks. Many phone makers, including Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson, already make phones that can...
[March 17, 2003, 13:48]
Combo Chips To Upsize Wi-Fi
News The growing multiplicity of wireless frequencies is prompting carriers to look harder at multifunction phones and multiband services. The company said chips that combine different cell phone and wireless standards are in the works.
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
Intel Chip Speeds Mobile Devices
News As part of its push into wireless, Intel on Wednesday unveiled a flash memory chip that promises to reduce the time it takes to get information from cell phones and handhelds. Flash is used inside devices such as handhelds and cell phones to store...
[September 27, 2001, 9:22]
Start-up Crams Single Chip With Phone, GPS And Bluetooth
News The company is also considering adding 802.11a/b and other wireless functionality next year, but sees location services as a more important market -- phones that can inform the network where they are will become a legal requirement in many...
[March 22, 2002, 13:25]
