Mobile technology firm Qualcomm has issued a strong rebuttal to news that six of the world’s leading telecoms equipment and chip suppliers have filed complaints with the European Commission. Last week, Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Texas Instruments asked the EC to investigate Qualcomm’s licensing of essential patents for 3G mobile technology. Qualcomm, the firms said, is ...

Despite good third quarter growth in the chip market, analyst Forward Concepts is halving its forecast for the digital signal processing sector from ten to five per cent

Altera and Wi-LAN have announced a partnership to deliver what they said will be the first programmable, low-cost, WiMax-compliant BTS (base transceiver station) modem. The IEEE 802.16-2004-compliant modem will allow basestation developers to deliver WiMax products that can be upgraded in the field to meet changing customer requirements and market conditions, the companies said. The partnership will combine WiLAN’s 802.16-2004 ...

Belgian chip research organisation IMEC has set-up a joint venture in The Netherlands with research institute TNO, which specialises in industrialising microsystems and polymer electronics

WiMAX is being seen in the US as both a potential 3G-killer and as a competitor to DSL. “All the manufacturers of wireless basestations are specifying WiMAX,” Babak Samimi, product marketing manager for communications products at PMC-Sierra, told Electronics Weekly. That is in addition to supporting GSM, W-CDMA, CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA. At Linear Technology, James Wong, product marketing manager for ...

Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) claims its Matrix location technology will be able to improve the location capabilities which will be offered by the European Galileo satellite system. “Here we have another satellite system and yet because of specific technical issues there’s still a need for a backup system – a helping hand from a cellular-based network – just to make ...

RF Engines claims to be the first intellectual property firm to offer a digital down-conversion (DDC) core for radio receivers with as many as 64-channels running on an FPGA

A DMB service will provide mobile TV in Korea by the end of the year, according to Frontier Silicon. The firm’s v-p of sales and marketing, Steve Evans, told Electronics Weekly the roll out had been delayed due to discussions over which standard to use. “There was discussion and disagreement about implementing a form of conditional access,” said Evans. Seven ...

Six of the world’s leading telecoms equipment and chip suppliers have filed complaints with the European Commission alleging anti-competitive conduct by Qualcomm. Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Texas Instruments have asked the EC to investigate Qualcomm’s licensing of essential patents for 3G mobile technology. “Major telecommunications equipment companies on three continents are standing up and saying that ...

Francois Fortun from Freescale Semiconductor sees ultra wideband as an important wireless comms opportunity