Motorola is unveiling a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS satellite sensor small enough and hence cheap enough for practical use in consumer-electronics devices such as cell ...

A patent dispute between Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. and CSR PLC is set to resume after an appeals court ruled against the British chipmaker in an ongoing case involving global positioning system ...

Silicon vendor Atheros Communications has agreed to acquire u-Nav Microelectronics, a GPS chip maker, for approximately $54 million in cash and stock, the companies announced after the close of ...

The MAX2745 complete single-chip global positioning system (GPS) RF front-end downconverter utilizes many innovative and leading-edge RF CMOS design techniques. This high-performance, state-of-the-art ...

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Irvine startup u-Nav Microelectronics Inc., a maker of GPS chips and software, is set to be bought by Santa Clara-based Atheros Communications Inc. for $54 million. The cash and stock deal is expected ...

A UK chip manufacturer is promising low-cost GPS for mobile phones in the near future, following its acquisition of two firms in the GPS field. On Monday, Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) announced it ...

When the Enhanced 911 (E911) mandate was put into place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), both carriers and device makers fought to cost effectively implement a service that seemed to ...

Atmel Corp. and Magellan introduced a GPS chip set that integrates the latest GPS correlation technology with an ARM926EJ-S-based microprocessor. Atmel Corp. and Magellan introduced a GPS chip set ...

No. A Global Positioning System (GPS) chip is a microchip that is used in a GPS receiver, which receives signals from four or more of the 27 GPS satellites currently orbiting Earth. A GPS device can ...