GSM Association pushes W-CDMA in ChinaMelanie ReynoldsThe GSM Association (GSMA) is to meet with Chinese government officials to persuade them that China should be adopting wideband-CDMA as its 3G mobile technology.According to the GSMA, W-CDMA would be the most obvious choice of technology, being the natural successor to GSM, which is used by 95.5 per cent of China’s 230 million ...

Radio design course: that’ll be NiceMelanie ReynoldsThe ‘Radio Design for Professionals’ one day course is to be held on October 14, during the Radio Solutions show in Nice, France, this year.The course emphasis has been expanded from designing ‘circuits that actually work’ to addressing the issues involved in making ‘systems that work every time’.The course is divided into six sessions, ...

Profits up 56% at BT, cuts debtMelanie ReynoldsBT has reported a profit before tax of £502m for the first quarter of its financial year, an increase of 56 per cent from £322m posted for the same quarter a year ago.The firm’s turnover remained constant for the quarter from a year ago at £4.59bn. Net debt was reduced from £13.397bn to ...

Scottish firm has colour, AM OLED displayHarry YeatesEdinburgh microdisplay developer MicroEmissive Displays has introduced what it claims is the world’s first full colour, active matrix, polymer OLED display.The ME3203 device is a QVGA (320 x 240) viewfinder display with a 0.3-inch diagonal. It is capable of showing 256,000 colours over a range of frame rates, and due to its top-emitting ...

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Semiconductor industry on ‘hair trigger for recovery’David MannersSemiconductor unit consumption increased 13 per cent in the second quarter, leading to a forecast of a return to solid growth trends over the next two and half years at Future Horizons’ IFS2003 mid-term semiconductor industry seminar in London yesterday.“It’s real, high quality growth – real unit consumption is going up,” said Future ...

Bookham to shut Milton ASOC facility with jobs to goDavid MannersBookham Technology is closing its facility in Milton with the loss of between 160 and 180 staff.The site produced the firm’s ASOC product line and the closure will leave the company with around 1,500 staff. A few years ago the application specific optical circuit (ASOC) technology was the firm’s key ...

ARC sees revenues fall despite royalty growthRichard BallARC has announced its interim results, with turnover of £5.3m down eight per cent from the £5.7m in the first half of 2002.The processor IP developer blamed the drop on currency exchange rates. At constant rates turnover would have grown three per cent, ARC said.The firm’s net loss for the six months was ...