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Friday 1 April 2011
MediaTek expected to cut MT6252 solution price in April
MediaTek is expected to cut the price of its single chip MT6252 handset solution in April when China-based Spreadtrum is scheduled to launch its new 6610 chip, according to industry...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Integrated mobile processors to challenge standalone application processors, says Petrov Group (part 2)
Recently several handset IC companies have announced integrated mobile processors – products that integrate baseband processor and application processor together with graphics...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
Thursday 27 January 2011
Spreadtrum and TSMC achieve 3G TD-SCDMA baseband processor milestone
Spreadtrum Communications and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have unveiled their achievement on the first commercialized 40nm TD-SCDMA baseband processor. First...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
IC vendors set to cut prices as notebook, DRAM and PCB makers mull hikes
While the entire electronics industry supply chain is currently set in a price spiral with notebook makers already successfully raising their OEM quotes for the first quarter of 2011,...
Monday 1 November 2010
Winbond launches serial flash MCP memory solutions
Winbond Electronics has delivered its serial flash multi-chip packaging (MCP) memory products to MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications for verification, and the company will also...
Monday 25 October 2010
Spreadtrum and MediaTek set in pricing competition
China-based handset solution vendor Spreadtrum Communications has followed the step of rival MediaTek to cut its solution prices, intensifying the pricing competition between the...
Wednesday 20 October 2010
MediaTek executive VP to resign
Hsu Ji-Chang, executive vice-president of MediaTek, has reportedly handed in his resignation but the request has not been approved, according to industry sources. Hsu vacated his...
Friday 15 October 2010
TSMC to get 60% more orders from Spreadtrum in 4Q10
Spreadtrum Communications is likely to boost its orders to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to about 80,000 wafers in the fourth quarter of 2010, up from 50,000 units...
Friday 17 September 2010
Spreadtrum launches single-chip solution for triple-SIM handsets
China-based chip design house Spreadtrum Communications has announced its new SC6600L7 single-chip solution designed for handsets that feature support for three GSM SIM cards.
Tuesday 31 August 2010
China white-box vendors to tap overseas markets with triple-SIM handsets
China-based white-box handset vendors are planning to adopt SoC (system-on-a-chip) solutions from Spreadtrum Communications to offer triple-SIM card/triple stand-by handsets, according...
Friday 6 August 2010
Spreadtrum, MStar and Infineon gaining ground in China white-box handset market
Handset solutions vendors, including Spreadtrum Communications, MStar Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies, have gained ground in the white-box handset market at the expense of...
Thursday 8 July 2010
Baseband chip sales growth driven by 2.5G solutions in 1Q10, says iSuppli
Momentarily defying the conventional wisdom that 3G technology is driving growth in the cell phone business, it turns out that suppliers focusing on 2.5G were the best performers...
Friday 26 March 2010
Silver Lake takes stake in Spreadtrum
US-based private equity investment firm Silver Lake Partners has acquired a minority stake in China-based Spreadtrum Communications, the handset solution vendor announced on Tuesda...
Thursday 25 February 2010
Sales of dual-SIM handsets to double in 2010, sources say
Sales of handsets with dual-SIM cards in the global market are expected to double in 2010 after the segment registered a strong growth of 74% in 2009, according to industry sources...