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RF Micro Devices Announces Discontinuation of WLAN Chipset Development Efforts

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2005--RF Micro Devices(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: RFMD), a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, today announced it will discontinue its internal wireless local area network (WLAN) chipset development efforts. The Company will continue to support its WLAN component business, which includes its transceivers for gaming and other applications as well as its WLAN power amplifiers and front-end modules for all WLAN markets.

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=RFMD&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=679818

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[Drensch]

This is a pretty deceptive thread imho.

The company has stopped development efforts into wlan chips. It says nothing about the ds.

 

[Saki]

Err, it means they'll stop developing new chips.
This will have no effect on the DS

 

[Kon Tiki]

This is a pretty deceptive thread imho.

The company has stopped development efforts into wlan chips. It says nothing about the ds.

Isn't that chip in NDS? I am sure RF Micro Devices makes chips for NDS.

 

[aoi tsuki]

They won't be developing newer chips. Current tech will continue to be supported.

 

[Saki]

This is a pretty deceptive thread imho.

Society is a PSP fanboy you know...

 

[Kon Tiki]

Oh ok. Thought this was relevant to NDS. Did not mean to steal any honey from the hive.

Society is a PSP fanboy you know...

Nah, I only pretend to be on the interent.

 

[Priz]

You forgot the amendment to the Press Release about how they're going to retroactively discontinue all hardware by activating the self destruct command wirelessly to all chips, causing all sorts of mini explosions and pops around the country.

:lol

"I was playing the DS and the damnedest thing happened today. There was a loud pop and now there's this gaping hole on the bottom of the system and it won't power on anymore."

 

[Kon Tiki]

You forgot the amendment to the Press Release about how they're going to retroactively discontinue all hardware by activating the self destruct command wirelessly to all chips, causing all sorts of mini explosions and pops around the country.

Come on now. It is not a sony.

 

[Alcibiades]

The article says it's going to (FUTURE TENSE) discontinue chipset development efforts.

The artile DOES NOT mention that it will discontinue supplying whatever it is they supply to current WLAN-technology customers (Nintendo among them)

 

[Azure Dream]

It directly says "The Company will continue to support its WLAN component business, which includes its transceivers for gaming and other applications", so I'm pretty sure that means they'll continue to produce the DS' WiFi chipset.

 

[DarienA]

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=RFMD&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=679818

Bad?

....you didn't really think before you created this thread did you?

 

[Enigma]

....you didn't really think before you created this thread did you?

Well he certainly didn't continue reading as far as the second sentence. I mean, hello, it specifically mentions continued support for it's existing gaming products.

 

[Kon Tiki]

....you didn't really think before you created this thread did you?

No. That is why I asked a one word question, I did not read the article.

 

[Odnetnin]

so the purpose of the post was for us to pick up on the fact that

a) you didn't bother reading it but linked it here for use to read it for you?

b) the faint suggestion that NDS is doomed?

 

[Kon Tiki]

so the purpose of the post was for us to pick up on the fact that

a) you didn't bother reading it but linked it here for use to read it for you?

b) the faint suggestion that NDS is doomed?

I never read any of the news I post, just the titles. Too time consuming.

 

[Odnetnin]

:lol @ title change

 

[EviLore]

I never read any of the news I post, just the titles. Too time consuming.

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