Motorola will pay $39 million for Tut Systems, a provider of carrier-class end-to-end digital video encoding, processing and distribution products, in a move to beef up its IPTV market presence.

A long running disagreement ends, as Genesis Microchip and Silicon Image put their differences aside and settle matters associated with DVI and HDMI.

As the last sales of the holiday shopping season begin, two analysts look toward 2007 as a year of growth and new opportunities for consumer electronics as older, more mature technologies start to see significant price declines and concluding replacement cycles.

With the growth of these markets comes new opportunity for the electronics industry as toys become increasingly dependent on technology to provide key functionality and features, writes Neil Bullock of LSI Logic.

Agere Systems announces the BluOnyx, a credit card-sized mobile content server.

The company, best known for its Panasonic brand, enters a mass-production system for a lithium-ion battery that incorporates a heat resistance layer consisting of an insulating metal oxide on the surface of the electrodes.

STMicroelectronics expands its Grenoble-based Innovation and Systems Integration Center to accommodate another 600 employees and two more facilitates at the SoC-dedicated, consumer electronics-focused location.

The $4 billion purchase may prove to be hard to swallow, according to iSuppli’s Jordan Selburn.

Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor sounds off on the new trends in consumer electronics, and what’s happening behind the scenes in the semiconductor business.

NXP unveils two PC TV processors aimed at desktop and notebook multimedia PCs.

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Artimi raises a total of $45 million in equity funding for the development of its high data throughput wireless USB chips.

Metalink announces the second generation of its WLANPlus technology, targeting the consumer electronics market with the 802.11n-draft-compliant dual-band chipset and aiming to double network coverage in a home environment.

Agere Systems is touting its chip packaging technology as the enabler for Samsung’s ultra-thin cell phone.

From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, Apple aficionados everywhere are buzzing about the company's rumored iPhone.

The technical trial, conducted over two months in Cambridge, England, featured 11 channels from the BSkyB content menu delivered to test devices running Qualcomm’s MediaFLO system in both laboratory and mixed field test environments.