As school begins across much of the country, we are approaching the two-year anniversary of the acquisition of Xtreme Spectrum by Freescale Semiconductor. At the time of the acquisition, Freescale predicted they had at least a two-year lead on the WiMedia Alliance, had a plethora of customers ready to ship products and had a […]

Last week at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Intel’s VP of Digital Home, Don MacDonald, introduced the VIIV processor family which is targeted at the living room for consumer electronics applications. The VIIV family (sounds like “five”) of products has gotten more write-ups on the name so far on the web then […]

Very often I am asked by various industry analysts about my thoughts regarding Freescale’s UWB plans and whether or not Motorola will commit to Freescale’s DS-UWB solution. Given Freescale was spun out from Motorola only one year ago, the question is very logical.

There are reports in the business press that Cisco is considering a merger with Nokia. Three interesting questions to ponder are (a) why? and (b) what is the likely result? To me the answer to the first one is pretty clear – Cisco is looking to acquire Nokia as a defensive measure against […]