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GaAs wafer foundry Win Semiconductors has revealed plans to ramp up capacity in 2011 in anticipation for brisk power amplifier (PA) demand coming from the smartphone sector. The company expects to boost its mon    

HTC has reportedly informed its suppliers that it will eventually need parts and components for the production of up to 60 million handsets in 2011 compared to shipments of 20 million units projected for 2010,    

Cast your mind back to the ancient time that was this August and you'll recall Eric Schmidt telling you, with no lack of pride, that 200,000 Android phones were being sold each and every day. Skip past Ste    

Taiwan-based handset maker Inventec Appliances expects to ship 10 million handsets in 2011 thanks to strong ODM orders and own-brand sales. The company's overall shipments should double to about 37-38 mill    

IC design house MediaTek will focus on smartphones, and has introduced Android and Windows Phone chipset solutions to grab a share of the global brand vendor market, according to company chairman Tsai Ming-Kai,    

Sometimes, you have to wonder if these CEO types are being paid the big bucks just because they can believe their own outlandish claims. Latest to try and push the boundaries of credulity is Verizon's Ivan    

No iPhone? No problem. If you'll recall, we heard back in May that Visa was in cahoots with DeviceFidelity, with the two trumpeting a not-exactly-svelte In2Pay case that would add contactless payment suppo    

China Unicom, currently the only sales agent of iPhone 4 in the China market, plans to lock iPhone 4s to its SIM cards in a bid to prevent contract-bundled purchasers' reselling iPhone 4 at high prices, ac    

MediaTek is expected to ship a total of 10 million units of its Android 2.1-enabled MT6516 smartphone solutions in December 2010 and January 2011, buoyed by strong demand from branded as well as white-box hands    

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