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Oh Lord,
We are truly thankful that you keep a watchful eye over the starving, the poor, the meek, that one day they shall inherit the earth. However, we would be most thankful if you would give a little attention to Interdigital Communications. It is a small company that trades on the Nasdaq. Lord, the ticker symbol is IDCC. Anyway, if you are not too busy with addressing the problems of war, turmoil starvation, sickness, poverty, and the like, please have mercy on IDCC investors, recognize their suffering and plight, and by your grace, they may one day become rich. Amen
Interesting PR on Infineon's technology partnerships.
Infineon Announcements of Business and Technology Partnerships, New Products and Research and Development Activities
Monday January 27, 10:53 am ET
MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003--This Infineon News Alert provides summaries of business and technology partnerships to support development of new microcontroller and custom chip solutions as well as new products and a leading edge application at Infineon's R&D labs. For further information, please refer to the web URLs, or contact the Media Relations department contact named in each summary.
Collaboration with Nazomi Communications for Java(TM)Platform - Acceleration of TriCore(TM)Processor Systems
Infineon Brings Bluetooth Easily to Cars
Infineon First to Install Compact Discharge EUV-Source for EUV Resist Development Major Milestone in Process Development for Next Generation Lithography
Sultanate of Oman to Use Infineon's Chip Card Microcontrollers in Its Smart Identification Card Project
Collaboration with Nazomi Communications for Java(TM) Platform Acceleration Of TriCore(TM) Processor Systems
A collaboration with Nazomi Communications, Inc., the inventor of universal and scalable solutions for boosting the performance of software running on the Java Platform, integrates Nazomi's JA108 Universal Accelerator chip for multimedia applications and the Java(TM) Platform with a reference evaluation board for TriCore(TM) Unified Processor Architecture designs. The resulting platform for system and software design will help speed the development of new electronic systems with multimedia capability, such as automotive infotainment and wireless communications devices based on Infineon's TriCore processor.
"Tests of the JA108 with our TriCore evaluation platform show a 24X improvement in Java code performance using the ECM benchmark," said Steve Burns, Director of Marketing for 32bit MCU IP Cores at Infineon.
Infineon will make a Java-accelerated TriCore reference platform available as a version of its existing TriCore Starter Kit development system. The TriCore-based platform will be enhanced with a Java Mezzanine Board that includes Nazomi's JA108 chip as a dedicated co-processor to execute Java bytecode instructions quickly and power-efficiently, accelerating Java software execution by up to 200X depending on application, and a development version of a Nazomi-adapted Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
For further information please contact: core.licensing@infineon.com.
Contact: reiner.schoenrock@infineon.com
Infineon Brings Bluetooth Easily to Cars
Infineon is introducing a complete and easy-to-integrate Bluetooth Communication Gateway (BCG), a solution comprising hardware and software specifically designed for automotive infotainment systems. Integrated into a car radio, for example, the BCG enables hands-free calling without car kit and additional wiring. Priced at about US$40 in quantities of 100,000, the just 30 x 50 mm2 measuring BCG meets the requirements of infotainment system manufacturers worldwide for an easy-to-integrate and cost-effective solution offering the flexibility to adapt new Bluetooth applications. The board offers microcontroller and Digital Signal Processor functionality to perform voice processing such as acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction. The Bluetooth functionality is implemented using Infineon's BlueMoon Single, a single-chip Bluetooth baseband and RF transceiver. The BCG hardware was designed in close cooperation with SMART Modular, a Solectron Corporation, and will be manufactured in Solectron facilities. Mecel AB provides the fully qualified Bluetooth wireless technology protocol stack. Philips PSP, a business unit assigned to be acquired by ScanSoft, supplies the voice processing software that supports Infineon's TriCore(TM) processor architecture used in the TC1910 controller.
Further information: http://www.infineon.com/bcg; http://www.drivinginnovations.com
Contact: monika.sonntag@infineon.com
A picture is available at http://www.infineon.com/news
Infineon First to Install Compact Discharge EUV-Source for EUV Resist Development - Major Milestone in Process Development for Next Generation Lithography
Infineon has installed a prototype system of the first commercially available compact EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) laboratory exposure system into a cleanroom at a research facility in Erlangen. The tool has been jointly developed with AIXUV - a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Lasertechnology - and is based on AIXUV's compact EUV-Discharge Lamp. This lamp generates a plasma in a patented gas discharge geometry (hollow cathode triggered Pinch plasma) and emits EUV radiation in the spectral range of 9 to 20 nm in pulses of about 30 ns. The typical source size is approximately 500 micron in diameter and a few mm in length. This is accomplished by heating the working gas (e.g. Xenon, air, oxygen, fluorine etc.) with a current of about 10,000 ampere to temperatures of about 20-30 eV (200,000 - 300,000 K). The EUV-source has an uptime of 100,000,000 pulses (i.e. greater than 500 hours at 50 Hz).
Laboratory exposure systems like this are essential in the development cycle of a new lithographic technology to enable photoresist material and process development in time. Photoresists are light-sensitive materials that are needed to define the small patterns on the various layers of an integrated circuit. To write these small patterns, different lithography technologies have been used through the last decades. Material and process related issues to be investigated with such a laboratory exposure tool are for example resist sensitivity and contrast, surface and line-edge roughness and resist behaviour at high doses, i. e. unwanted outgassing or crosslinking.
Lithography tools needed for manufacturing chip generations with feature sizes of 50 nm and below are under intensive development throughout the entire semiconductor industry. EUV lithography is the main stream candidate for these dimensions. The EUV technology uses extreme ultraviolet wavelengths as small as 13.5 nm, far below the wavelengths of traditional optical light sources. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) which extends to 2016 and describes the technological and material demands of future chip generations predicts this technology node to be in volume-production from 2007 on.
Further information: http://www.infineon.com/
Contact: reiner.schoenroc@infineon.com
Sultanate of Oman to Use Infineon's Chip Card Microcontrollers in Its Smart Identification Card Project
Infineon Technologies is sole supplier of secure microcontroller chips for use in smart identification (ID) cards being issued by the Government of Sultanate of Oman to about 1.2 million citizens and inhabitants starting in the end of 2003. The ID card will be used for personal identification and authentication, as a drivers license, as a passport and later as emergency health card. The microcontroller chip incorporated into the card securely stores an individual name, address, and data on the digital characteristics of the card holder's thumbprint. This data only includes the relative position of the fingerprint characteristics and not the fingerprint as a whole. This technique eliminates the possibility of reconstructing the original fingerprint from this data. Infineon's chip card controller is certified according to the evaluation assurance level EAL5+ in the Common Criteria testing scheme which is highest certification level in existence today.
Further information: www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/prod_cat.jsp?oid=-8232
Contact: monika.sonntag@infineon.com
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions for the automotive and industrial sectors, for applications in the wired communications markets, secure mobile solutions as well as memory products. With a global presence, Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from Tokyo. In fiscal year 2002 (ending September), the company achieved sales of Euro 5.21 billion with about 30,400 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX). Further information is available at http://www.infineon.com
This news alert is available at http://www.infineon.com/news
Bluetooth and Java are trademarks owned by its proprietor and used by Infineon Technologies under license.
For the Trade Press: INFXX200301.039e
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Reiner Schoenrock +49 89 234 29593
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reiner.schoenrock@infineon.com
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matt.schmidt@infineon.com
Kaye Lim +65 8400 689 (Asia)
kaye.lim@infineon.com
Hirotaka Shiroguchi, +81 3 5449 6795 (Japan)
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Investor Relations, +49 89 234 26655
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A ridiculous comment that serves no purpose other than to create strife.
"If IDCC had a substantial chance of prevailing they would have requested and recieved an injunction for the infringing products to be removed from the market years ago. Since this didn't happen we know their case is not very strong."
Why risk carpal tunnel syndrome with your years of relentless negative bent posts, when you could just simply say "IDCC is bad"? There's Mickey, there's you, and rational thought in between.
Louis,
I agree.
Goldberg's remarks should serve to temper the most optimistic IMO
Goldberg concedes that "a favorable outcome (in it) … would be a very positive upside for the company."
Still, he said, neither InterDigital, its institutional investors, nor the analysts who follow the company are counting on that upside.
"I think the market has appropriately not taken into account a full upside scenario," Goldberg said.
For InterDigital, R&D may finally pay off (Here's the link)
http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2003/01/20/story4.html
sorry if already posted
From the January 17, 2003 print edition
For InterDigital, R&D may finally pay off
Peter Key Staff Writer
KING OF PRUSSIA — Executives of InterDigital Communications Corp. think the company is poised to cash in on years of investment in research and development once third-generation, or 3G, wireless products become widely accepted.
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"We've kept the accelerator pushed all the way to the floor in development of the patent portfolio and know-how," said Howard E. Goldberg, president and chief executive officer of InterDigital, whose technology has been used in wireless equipment since the early 1980s.
Investors who post on Internet message boards devoted to InterDigital stock think the company's payday could come in a Dallas courtroom. That's where the 10-year-old patent dispute between InterDigital and Ericsson Inc., the Plano, Texas-based subsidiary of Stockholm, Sweden-based Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, is scheduled to go to trial on Feb. 10 in U.S. District Court.
Neither InterDigital nor Ericsson will comment on the dispute, which includes lawsuits filed by both sides and has been in mediation since the last quarter of 2001.
InterDigital investors, however, are free to post messages about it all over the Internet, and they have been doing just that with exuberance bordering on the irrational since the end of October. That's when a jury in the same court that's the site of the InterDigital-Ericsson dispute awarded Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris Corp. $61 million in a patent-infringement case it had brought against Ericsson.
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Ericsson has asked the judge in the case to throw out the verdict and likely will appeal if that move is unsuccessful. But that hasn't stopped InterDigital investors from interpreting the verdict as a good sign for the company's case.
Among the facts they cite:
The jury found Ericsson's conduct willful, which they say InterDigital could use to establish that Ericsson has a history of knowingly infringing on patents;
Evidence in the Harris trial, including internal Ericsson memos, appears to bolster that point;
InterDigital's co-counsel is the Houston-based Fulbright & Jaworski, which represents Harris.
Still, some are warning InterDigital investors not to count their chips until they're tested, packaged and connected.
"I think a big settlement is the least likely scenario," said Tom Carpenter, senior technology analyst for Louisville brokerage J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons Inc., which makes a market in InterDigital stock.
The most likely scenario, according to Carpenter, is that Ericsson lets the trial begin and sees how it progresses. If the trial goes well, it lets it continue. If it doesn't, it works out an agreement that involves a relatively small settlement for past infringement on InterDigital patents and an agreement for future payments to InterDigital for licenses or engineering development work.
Memos introduced in the Harris trial don't excite Carpenter because, he said, it's unclear who they refer to, and, as a result, unclear whether they can be introduced in the InterDigital trial, much less be effective evidence.
Also, he pointed out, InterDigital has never disclosed the size of the damages it's seeking from Ericsson and there's no guarantee it will get close to what it's asking for.
For proof of that, consider InterDigital's dispute with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. In a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, InterDigital said it had filed a complaint against Samsung with the International Chamber of Commerce, alleging that Samsung owed it royalties that "could be in excess of $100 million." Last month, the chamber's International Court of Arbitration ruled that Samsung owed InterDigital $500,000 in royalties.
The message boards went crazy, and not with glee. Goldberg, who once was InterDigital's chief counsel, said "it is a common practice in litigation to take different positions, including positions on the outer edge," and that InterDigital's position was what it disclosed to the SEC.
"I think experienced investors understand what regulations require and don't construe that as a prediction," he said.
Despite the resolution of the Samsung complaint and InterDigital's reluctance to say much about the Ericsson litigation, Goldberg concedes that "a favorable outcome (in it) … would be a very positive upside for the company."
Still, he said, neither InterDigital, its institutional investors, nor the analysts who follow the company are counting on that upside.
"I think the market has appropriately not taken into account a full upside scenario," Goldberg said.
Even so, the company has attracted a few big betters.
The level of institutional ownership in InterDigital increased significantly last year, Goldberg said, and, as of Jan. 15, accounted for 22.2 percent of the company's outstanding shares, according to Nasdaq. What's more, the institutions are still buying, according to Nasdaq's analysis of their third-quarter SEC filings. Those show that 42 increased their positions in InterDigital stock, buying about 2.3 million shares, while only 26 decreased their positions, selling about 846,000 shares. Among the buyers was Credit Suisse Asset Management LLC, which took an initial position in InterDigital by buying about 1.1 million shares, according to its third-quarter filing.
Analyst recommendations are equally enthusiastic, if fewer in number. Only three analysts follow InterDigital, according to First Call/Thomson Financial, but two give the stock their second-highest rating (out of five) and one (Carpenter) gives it his highest rating.
RTX Securities Corp., a San Francisco-based brokerage, initiated coverage of InterDigital last month, giving it a buy rating and a 12-month target price of $25. The reason, according to analyst Jason Tsai, was its patent portfolios, which cover technologies widely used now in wireless communications as well as technologies that will be widely used in the future. Those portfolios include 5,000 patents and patent applications worldwide, according to InterDigital.
Just having a lot of patents isn't enough, however. InterDigital has to make money off them, something it has not always been successful in doing.
Back in the 1980s, InterDigital was product-driven with its Ultraphone system, which initially was used to provide fixed-wireless local phone service to rural areas of the United States and later to developing countries.
By the mid-1990s, InterDigital had shifted into developing second-generation, or 2G, wireless communications technology, which is digital, and 3G technology, which is broadband digital. (First generation wireless technology was analog.)
It since has done well enough to survive, which, as Goldberg points out, is more than can be said for a lot of telecom firms, but until recently, its revenue and income have come in spurts as it signs deals.
By continuing to concentrate on R&D, Goldberg thinks InterDigital has forfeited short-term profits, but has put itself in a position to begin realizing a stream of revenue and income from both products (chips used in wireless equipment) and by licensing its technology to others.
Carpenter thinks the company has put itself in position to capitalize on the ongoing switch to 3G technology, but thinks that in order to take advantage of that position, it has to sign a licensing deal with a major handset manufacturer, such as Finnish Nokia Corp.
Tsai, meanwhile, wrote in early December that InterDigital "is well positioned to meet our estimates for 2003 with its existing licenses." He predicts the company will earn 19 cents per share on revenue of $103.2 million this year.
In the first three quarters of last year, InterDigital lost $3.4 million, or 6 cents per share, on revenue of $44.2 million.
The company’s CEO Terry Clontz argues that in order to meet the IDA deadline there will be a “Huge incremental 3G investment by all three operators”. This he believes will inevitably be passed onto the subscribers.
Clontz went on to say that his company had proposed a possible better way forward – launching intermediary technology solutions such as EDGE. According to him this would “ensure more affordable 3G services while also keeping Singapore relevant in the fast moving wireless industry.”
http://www.bwcs.com/marketing/index2.html
JimLur
Understandable.
What concerns me though, and is seldom discussed is products, technology transfer, and partnership development agreements. I have not the slightest idea whether this litigation has any impact over the timing of these matters. However if any partnership development agreements, product sales, technology transfer agreements are in any way influenced by the outcome of this litigation, then any significant delay in resolving this matter could be a factor.
I have always thought that a favorable 2G resolution with ERICY, would provide additional leverage to secure favorable 3G technology deals, in addition to IPR licensing. However, the timeline for development of 3G networks and handsets continues regardless. In February, I am hoping IDCC provides significant progress in their product and actual technology efforts. I see tremendous opportunity in IPR licensing, but will we ever be more than an IPR company? 2003 is a signficant year for 3G development, and I hope we can get beyond litigation, and join the 3G crowd in successful product marketing, on a timely basis.
Perhaps that smoking gun stuff could be forwarded to all of ERICY's analysts and institutional investors. Shake things up a tad.
InterDigital trial date pushed back
Peter Key
InterDigital is a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of wireless technology and products. It originally sued Ericsson in 1993. Ericsson is the Plano, Texas-based U.S. subsidiary of Swedish communications equipment manufacturer Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, one of the world's largest makers of wireless phones.
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The lawsuit has long been the subject of speculation among InterDigital investors who frequent Internet message boards, because they think it could bring InterDigital hundreds of millions of dollars. Speculation has become even more rampant since Harris Corp. was awarded $61 million this summer in a patent-infringement case it had brought against Ericsson. Harris is a Melbourne, Fla.-based developer of communications technology and equipment.
InterDigital executives say the company hasn't disclosed what it is seeking in the suit.
The Philadelphia and Dallas Business journals have reported that it is asking for about 5 percent of Ericsson's handset sales and 3.5 percent of its infrastructure sales going back to the early 1990s.
Why in the hell does it need to be delayed, unless it didn't square with Bab's calendar. IDCC investors have been tortured enough.
Could poosibly mean settlement progress rather than delays. eom
New trial date. Damn!
sjratty
Most likely, IMO, any license agreement with MOT will be a package deal, including worldwide 2G and 3G, with the 2G rate being detemined by NOK/ERICY resolutions. If IDCC receives any consideration from MOT for any US 2G TDMA patents, we may not be able to determine what it is (miniscule or significant), as it will be bundled in with a worldwide 2G/3G agreement.
By the way, I think it was Jakayjones that just recently posted the litigated patents MOT and the litigated Patents in ERICY. There are patents in the ERICY litigation which were not involved in MOT. How would any of us on this board know what IDCC's position is with MOT with respect to the patents involved in the ERICY litigation which were not involved with the MOT litigation? Who knows if IDCC believes MOT began to infringe on IDCC's other TDMA patents not involved in the MOT litigation, after the mot litigation? Maybe maybe not.
I imagine we will know IDCC's position with repect to MOT not too long after the ERICY case is resolved.
sjratty
Just apologize, and say that there is nothing uncertain about IDCC, and you can be back in good graces.
Nokia Unveils World's First TDMA Handsets With Full-Color Displays
Thursday January 9, 11:00 am ET
- New Nokia 3560 and 3520 Phones Bring Color Displays and Java Technology To TDMA Customers -
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK - News) today announced the world's first TDMA handsets with full-color displays, continuing a tradition of Nokia firsts in the TDMA market, including the world's first dual mode IS-136 TDMA/AMPS handset, the Nokia 2160 phone, and the world's first GAIT compliant TDMA/GSM/AMPS phone, the Nokia 6340 handset. With features such as Java capability, custom color wallpapers, MIDI ring tunes and two-way text messaging with e-mail support, the color-screen Nokia 3560 and 3520 phones allow TDMA operators to offer many of today's most-wanted features on their existing networks. Shipments are expected to begin during the second quarter of 2003.
With support for MIDP 1.0 Java technology, the dual-mode Nokia 3520 phone (TDMA 800MHz/AMPS) and the tri-mode Nokia 3560 phone (TDMA 800MHz/1900MHz/AMPS) allow users to customize their phones by downloading new applications, such as games or productivity applications, to their phones using the built-in WAP 2.0 mobile Internet browser. Nokia 3520 and 3560 phone owners can also use the mobile Internet browser to further customize their handsets by downloading new multi-channel MIDI polyphonic ring tunes to personalize their call alerts and SMS notification sounds.
"The Nokia 3520 and 3560 phones gives TDMA operators the ability to offer fun and exciting new features that have previously not been available for their customers. Not only does this allow our customers to market a greater variety of cutting-edge handsets, but the ability to offer rich content like Java games and MIDI ring tunes also creates new sources of revenue," said Pekka Vartiainen, senior vice president of Nokia Mobile Phones, Americas. "Nokia has long brought the latest innovations to our TDMA customers, and these new color screen phones demonstrate our continuing commitment to the TDMA market."
For maximum control, the Nokia 3520 and 3560 phones include powerful voice functionality, with voice dialing for up to 20 numbers, up to 3 minutes of voice memo recording and voice commands to control up to 5 menu items. A built-in phone book holding up to 250 contacts, each with multiple entries, a full-view calendar, to-do list, and an alarm clock with snooze let the Nokia 3520 and 3560 phones keep busy lives organized. Also available are unique new optional Xpress-on(TM) Active covers, which include embedded lights that illuminate in synchronization to the user's favorite ring tune.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
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972-894-6182
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972-894-6331
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Went back to review the IDCC Hop-on agreement, and forgot that we do not have a 2G CDMA license with Hop-on
Hop-On, Fluent Wireless to sell disposable 800 MHz CDMA phones
Jan. 06, 2003 12:34 PM EST
IRVINE, Calif.—Hop-On, which makes disposable and fully recyclable mobile phones, announced it will begin selling its 800 MHz CDMA phones in the Midwest through a deal with Fluent Wireless L.L.C.
Hop-On said the phones will be available in 300 retail locations across Tennessee, Iowa and Wisconsin. The agreement follows the company’s launch in Southern California.
Good Morning Data Rox
Thanks for the article on 802.16. It's good to know the status of that standard, even if it's not good news. Hopefully IPwireless can gain traction on it's own, but it sure would be nice to see IDCC help the cause.