Oldham chip manufacturer expands its workforceAlex Mayhew-SmithUK semiconductor manufacturing company Zetex is expanding its workforce by another 100 staff over the next year and a half.The firm, which is a subsidiary of Telemetrix and currently has 750 staff, is taking on staff to fill positions including design engineers, test, manufacturing and applications engineers, and process development roles. “Our recruitment plans ...

Qualcomm buys Tellit Comms and partners Symbian in European movesRichard WilsonTellit Communications, the Farnborough, UK-based mobile phone development company, has been acquired by US firm Qualcomm in a deal worth $20m.In a separate move Qualcomm has signed a partnership agreement with Symbian to ensure the Psion-led group’s mobile computing operating system is compatible with its own CDMA chipsets and software. ...

STMicroelectronics DSP core licence for AlcatelRoy RubensteinAlcatel has licensed STMicroelectronics’ ST100 DSP core for use in its network and wireless communications products. “Alcatel needed a powerful DSP,” said Johan Danneels, CEO of Alcatel Microelectronics. “With the ST100 Alcatel will be able to develop high performance embedded systems as required in GSM, xDSL and VoIP applications.” The ST100 core uses variable ...

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