EW Daily News 27/02/2004 10:55:20 – Power firm acquires UK-based design team Power firm acquires UK-based design team Richard Wilson Power group XP has taken full control of a UK-based design and manufacturing business to support its plans for new product development. XP has acquired the remaining 80 per cent of the issued share capital of XP Electronics, an industrial ...

EW Daily News 27/02/2004 10:32:28 – 3GSM: Metrowerks upgrades CodeWarrior for Symbian v.83GSM: Metrowerks upgrades CodeWarrior for Symbian v.8 Richard Wilson Metrowerks is supporting the development of next generation mobi9le handsets with a software tool suite for Symbian OS version 8.0. The aim, said the company, is to provide the tools necessary to complete operating system base ports, develop peripheral ...

EW Daily News 27/02/2004 09:54:09 – Chip firm sees sales leap due to Ethernet and wireless Chip firm sees sales leap due to Ethernet and wireless Richard Ball Communications chip maker Marvell has announced yearly revenues up 62 per cent to $820m, and a move into profit. The US firm, which makes ICs for broadband comms and storage systems, declared ...

EW Daily News 26/02/2004 16:53:05 – Power-One puts control in to distributed power design Power-One puts control in to distributed power design Richard Wilson Power-One has unveiled an intermediate bus power architecture which allows for up to 32 point-of-load (POL) voltage converters to be controlled by a dedicated onboard power management system. Called the Z-One the design will offer a ...

EW Daily News 26/02/2004 13:12:00 – Bluetooth float attracts global interestBluetooth float attracts global interest Richard Wilson CSR saw its share price rise sharply by around 20 per cent when it commenced conditional trading on the London Stock Exchange this morning. The Cambridge-based Bluetooth chipset developer made its initial public offering at 200p and by mid-day the price had risen ...

EW Daily News 26/02/2004 10:12:56 – Proton polymer battery lasts for 100,000 cyclesProton polymer battery lasts for 100,000 cycles Steve Bush NEC is to make further prototypes of its proton polymer battery, and is still searching for an application almost four years after it was first revealed. We will make samples of a coin-type battery, Shu Hattori of the firm’s ...

EW Daily News 26/02/2004 10:03:47 – Industry looks to integrate litho supply chainIndustry looks to integrate litho supply chain Jeff Chappell at ElectronicNews Online Cost has become an integral part of the lithography equation, and will influence the adoption of immersion and any potential next generation lithography (NGL) successor. Evidence of this is abundant at this year’s SPIE Microlithography Conference. ...

EW Daily News 25/02/2004 10:05:19 – 3GSM: Operators looking for HSDPA technology3GSM: Operators looking for HSDPA technology Harry Yeates The development status of HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) technology has been the subject of many conversations at 3GSM, variously for the network capacity benefits it promises, or for the increased bandwidth available to each user. “Most of the interest is ...

EW Daily News 25/02/2004 10:02:26 – 3GSM: Qualcomm chip aimed at Chinese market3GSM: Qualcomm chip aimed at Chinese market Harry Yeates Qualcomm has announced a reduced feature set, quad-band GSM/W-CDMA baseband chip, aimed specifically at handsets for the Chinese market, at 3GSM. The MSM6225 device loses the support for assisted GPS (A-GPS), video telephony and Bluetooth included in the MSM6550 ...

EW Daily News 25/02/2004 09:58:28 – 3GSM: Intel unsure on UWB, united on WiMAX3GSM: Intel unsure on UWB, united on WiMAX Harry Yeates Intel executives at the 3GSM World Congress were not exactly united in their vision for ultra wideband (UWB) technology. This morning Paul Otellini, Intel’s president and COO, told delegates during his keynote address that UWB technology, he ...