Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Intel has introduced its first NOR flash memory products aimed at the emerging low-cost cellphone segment.
Darin Billerbeck, vice president and general manager of Intel's Flash Products Group, said: "We view the low-cost handset market segment as an ongoing growth opportunity and we have a migration path in place to transition our products from 130nm and 90nm process technology to 65nm process technology in 2007.
The GSM Association estimates that only 20 percent of the world's population use cellphones, largely because of cellphone costs.
To accelerate design cycles, Intel offers a portable low-cost handset design kit, which includes a design guide, product datasheets and migration guides.
The devices are available in a range of capacities from 32MB to 1GB. An Intel press release said that the chips would be available in both single-chip and multi-cell packages, and were "sampling to customers now and will be in volume production in the third quarter this year."
However the release also claimed, confusingly, that "Major handset vendors are expected to start introducing low-cost cell phones based on Intel flash products this quarter."
Intel and Micron announced last month that their joint venture, IM Flash Technologies, set up to manufacture NAND flash memory products for the two companies was sampling its first devices built on 50nm technology.
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