All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Hardware

Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, Nextwave Wireless, Ericsson, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Sony Ericsson have all signed a pact agreeing to cross licensing of intellectual property they collectively own in Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Missing are some dominant players in wireless technology.

It remains to be seen what role mobile operators will play in knocking together the heads of their equipment and device suppliers as well as chipset vendors and technology developers so they can deploy next generation wireless technologies when they want/need to at reasonable cost. 

Sometimes we're so close to something that we can't see what's going on.  Videogames are now tipping the scales in the entertainment industry.

By opening store locations, Microsoft realizes that being a player in the mobile space requires retail presence in order to get closer to the customer experience.

The semiconductor market (excluding NAND and DRAM) tends to behave relatively well, with mild soft spots and less remarkable highs.  Add the schizophrenia endemic to memories and the whole complexion of the market changes to one of wild mood swings. Objective Analysis finds that the semiconductor...

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a very predictable down cycle based upon excessive capital spending in 2006.  As it always does, demand will catch up to this spending in 2009, and the market should see another upswing similar to those in the past. In the mean time, all semiconductor...

Another consolidation in the mobile & wireless has happened again, this time ST & NXP. The combination of ST and NXP's mobile & wireless division creates a company which sits at the 3rd position just after Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.   What matters in the mobile & wireless...

If this rumor is true it would be a total waste of resources for Microsoft unless they were going to come out with a full line of products.

Solid-State Drives (SSDs) may be ahead of their time, but they are certainly generating a lot of press!  Companies who don't want to get left in the dust need both to understand this technology, and to understand why their customers would or would not like to purchase it.

There are several sales team approaches by the companies in the analog IC business-some are more succesful than others.    You have to balance cost of sales with a successful sales effort. National has too few "feet on the street" to compete for new designs with Analog Devices, On,...