Advanced Micro Devices buys ATI Technologies for $5.4 billion.
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NEC and Panasonic |
Texas Instruments, NEC Electronics and Matsushita |
Handset joint venture |
The companies will create a joint venture that will develop, design and license technology for hardware and software communications platforms for next-gen mobile handsets. |
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Motorola |
Huawei |
UMTS joint venture |
The two signed a joint-venture deal that will see the two developing UMTS and HSPA (high-speed packet access) infrastructure. |
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Verizon Wireless |
Cisco, Lucent, Motorola, Nortel and Qualcomm |
Creation of Advanced IMS (A-IMS) group |
A-IMS will develop enhancements to the IMS standard. |
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Advanced Micro Devices |
ATI Technologies |
AMD buys ATI for $5.4 billion |
A merged ATI and AMD would be self-sufficient in offering integrated solutions of their own to device manufacturers. |