Infineon: Financials

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the first part of this series, I presented an overview of the company’s various business segments. With that as the background, let us look into the company’s recent financials.

Infineon: Company Overview

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We have, over the past year, presented detailed valuation theses for various mobile chipset vendors namely Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, InterDigital, Marvell and STMicroelectronics. This matrix will not be complete without Infineon – the German Chipmaker.

Catching Up on Readings: Hydro Alchemy

Since the last catching up list on April 26, you may have accumulated more backlog. What’s with the Yahoo-Microsoft frenzy? Here’s a quick cache of the articles since then that you may want to make sure you read:

3G iPhone and Qualcomm

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The 3G iPhone rumors are getting more frequent by the day. We all know it will hit the market. It is just a question of when. I have, in the past, looked at the likely component vendors for the impending iPhone including Infineon and InterDigital. As requested by one of

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Marvell: Storage Market Leadership

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the prequel, I looked at Marvell’s fiscal 2008 financials focusing especially on the company’s expenses. As we move ahead, let me dissect its position in the storage industry in general and the hard disk drive market in particular.

TI+InterDigital = 3G Consolidation?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the previous article, I discussed what an acquisition of InterDigital can do to TI. What then will happen to the cellular industry and the 3G value chain?

Interdigital: Qualcomm Can Acquire

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Will Qualcomm acquire Interdigital? This was the question I raised in my last article. I will try to take a quick look at the feasibility of such an event in this part of my series. Interdigital has a market cap of about $1 billion today. The stock closed on Thursday,

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Interdigital: A Qualcomm Acquisition Target?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The genesis of my question is perhaps the synergies that I found hard to ignore between the two companies – The complementary intellectual property (IP) portfolios: The two companies are often in the news due to their legal wranglings. Interdigital recently won a English High Court ruling against Nokia that

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