PMC, which makes communications chips, was the " Forbes Dog of the Day, " plunging 15% today.
Ten years later, unlimited bandwidth has yet to arrive and the market for high-speed communications chips is dominated by MicroUnity rival Broadcom.
Apple's new model is likely built around new, burlier communications chips from Infineon, says Will Strauss, a veteran communications chip watcher at Forward Concepts.
The communications processor business includes the IXP family of network and communications chips used in networking products and Intel's Xscale application chips are used in cell phones, handheld computers, and smart phones.
But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
Take a look at Motorola, National Semiconductor, TSMC, Applied Materials, Williams Communications and others in chips and telecom.
It leads in making the chips in communications gear, supplying rivals Cisco and Nortel.
Right now, important new products in chips, communications, computing and consumer goods are on the drawing board.
It uses near-field-communications (NFC) chips built into the phones or added to older Androids with a special sticker.
The San Diego-based communications chip vendor is shifting production of the wireless chips it sells to a new manufacturing technology that will allow it to build parts with features as small as 28 nanometers across.
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The EnterpriseMobility system uses software written by Norwood Systems, Bluetooth-enabled hardware from Axis Communications in its base stations, Cambridge Silicon Radio for chips, and L.M.
The computer maker on Wednesday is discussing its advances in making optical-communications components from silicon, the mainstay material used in conventional computer chips.
It will also support something called "near field communications, " which enables devices to read pricing or media information off chips costing 2 cents each.
Communications tricks that once required vast research staffs can be had ready-made in chips from Broadcom, Marvell and Intel.
Communications tricks that once required vast research staffs can be had ready-made in chips from Broadcom and Intel.
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