Chris Druce

Mobile data “not exciting” for consumer users Melanie ReynoldsMobile data services based on the latest GPRS technology are failing to excite consumers. According to consultancy firm Analysys, only 31 per cent of those with GPRS phones are using data services. By the end of 2001, 50 of Western Europe’s 76 mobile operators had launched GPRS networks. Analysys estimated that around ...

Chris Druce

Chris Druce

Chris Druce

Infineon sells GaAs business in partnership dealRichard WilsonInfineon Technologies has sold its gallium arsenide semiconductor business to US firm TriQuint Semiconductor.The deal includes development and marketing activities but not the manufacturing operations. As part of the deal the two firms will collaborate on future GaAs products for the wireless comms market. An initial step of this cooperation is the acquisition ...

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Chris Druce

MIPS designs hundreds of CPU cores in one deviceSteve BushMIPS had produced a synthesisable version of its processor core for multi-processor system chips which could implement hundreds of CPU cores in the one device.“It is not unusual to cluster four or eight CPUs around a piece of memory,” said Mike Thompson, product marketing manage at MIPS. “We are talking to ...