Sitting in the Digitimes office last week, GPS IC design house Sirf founder Kanwar Chadha took out an idea book that he had commissioned back in 1995 when Sirf was just getting started...

MediaTek is expected to introduce a lineup of new chip solutions for WCDMA handsets and digital still cameras (DSCs) soon, with volume production slated for the latter half of 2009,...

Taiwan's Skymedi, a memory controller IC maker, has recently cut into the supply chains of High Tech Computer (HTC), Nokia and Garmin with its eMMC products, according to industry...

SiRF Technology has introduced the SiRFatlasIV multifunction location system processor targeting an emerging class of location-centric devices.

While GPS has become a standard feature in smartphones driven by the popularity of mapping, navigation and LBS applications, GPS penetration in feature phones remains low outside...

MediaTek has announced that its single-chip all-in-one GPS solution MT3329 is in mass production and has been integrated with a wide range of Garmin outdoor navigators, the Garmin...

The number of subscribers to handset-hosted location based services (LBS) increased in 2008 to more than 18 million. North America continued to be the dominant region, accounting...

Mio Technology, the brand division of Mitac International, has unveiled three PND products, the Moov S505, S555 and V765.

Although cellular handsets will continue to dominate shipments of devices with integrated GPS, the next growth spurt will come from mobile consumer electronics (CE) and mobile computing...

While Garmin and TomTom together occupied 67% of the global shipments of portable navigation devices (PNDs) in the fourth quarter of 2008, their combined share in the Asia market...

Providers of GPS navigation services around the world are expected to focus their operations in 2009 on combining location-based services (LBS) with advertising, according to Partner...

The once booming PND market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions, according to ABI Research. With the European PND market forecast to decline...

Shipments of GPS semiconductors will increase 15% on a unit basis in 2009 compared to the previous year, according to a new analysis by ABI Research. This growth rate is lower than...

Taiwan-based Mitac International's Mio- and Navman-branded PND devices held 6% of the global GPS PND market in the fourth quarter of 2008, much lower than the 37% of Garmin and 30%...

North America overtook EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as the largest regional market for PNDs in the final quarter of 2008, according to research firm Canalys. In fourth-quarter...