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The unthinkable has happened: Qualcomm and MediaTek enter into a patent agreement

MediaTek makes chips for various devices including DVD players and televisions, but they’re most known for their mobile phone chips that go into the millions of Chinese made handsets that never leave the country. The Nokla clones we make fun … Continue reading

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Mediatek and Qualcomm play nice

Patent sharing agreement MOBILE CHIP DESIGNERS Qualcomm and Mediatek have inked a broad patent sharing deal. The agreement will give both firms access to a range of each others wireless communication technologies, including CDMA and WCDMA patents and products. Although … Continue reading

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Qualcomm, MediaTek ink patent cross-licensing deal

SAN FRANCISCO — Fabless chip vendors Qualcomm Inc. and MediaTek Inc. have agreed to let each other utilize technology covered by their respective patent portfolios, the companies said Thursday (Nov. 19). Under the terms of the arrangement, Qualcomm (San Diego) … Continue reading

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MediaTek, Qualcomm Reach Agreement On W-CDMA, CDMA Patents

TAIPEI (Dow Jones) — Chip designer MediaTek Inc. (2454.TW) and U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) said Friday they had agreed on a patent arrangement covering chips used in Wideband Code Division Multiple Access and Code Division Multiple Access networks. Because the … Continue reading

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MediaTek and Qualcomm Enter Into Patent Arrangement

SAN DIEGO AND HSINCHU — November 19, 2009 — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, and MediaTek, Inc., (TPE: 2454), a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital … Continue reading

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MediaTek rallies as Vodafone picks chips for phones

Shares of MediaTek Inc (聯發科) rallied to nearly a two-year high yesterday after the nation’s biggest mobile phone chipmaker said European telecom operator Vodafone would use its chips for two new phones. That may take MediaTek one step closer to … Continue reading

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MediaTek: Vodafone To Use Co’s Chips In Own Brand Handsets

TAIPEI (Dow Jones) — MediaTek Inc. (2454.TW), Taiwan’s largest chip designer, said Thursday Vodafone Group PLC (VOD.LN) will use its chips in several models of the U.K. telecom operator’s own brand handsets. The first model of Vodafone‘s handset using MediaTek‘s … Continue reading

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Taiwan government fund to invest in HT mMobile (formerly Sunplus mMobile)

Sunplus Technology has said that the Taiwan government’s National Development Fund will take a 20% stake of its subsidiary Sunplus mMobile, which expects to introduce 3G handset chips by the end of this year. Sunplus Technology will see month-by-month revenue … Continue reading

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Nokia’s Handset Test Laboratory in Farnborough

這部影片可以讓你知道一支 world class 水準的手機要能上市販售,要經過多少試驗。(這裡頭還不包括我熟悉的 Conformance, IOT 與 Field Trial 喔!) 現在你應該知道為什麼我總愛用 Nokia 的手機了吧。     Original from Nokia’s Handset Test Laboratory in Farnborough | Mobile Industry Review

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Nokia: BenQ, Siemens ‘turkeys will not make an eagle’

Gobble, gobble  The folks at Nokia certainly know how to give good quote. Here’s the mobile phone giant’s take on Siemens‘ sale of its handset division to Taiwan’s BenQ: “Two turkeys won’t make an eagle,” the company believes. So sayeth … Continue reading

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