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"...Gartner said orders for new equipment are entering a lull, in large part because makers of memory chips...Next year capital expending expected to rise 4.8% but that is down from prior growth predictions for 2008 that started at 16.1% and were later trimmed to 10.7%... "

Ericsson and Samsung Electronics have signed a mobile telecommunication cross-licence deal and agreed to drop ongoing patent suits between the two companies.

In May Broadcom won a major US patent infringement case against Qualcomm for the design of its 3G mobile-phone chips and the ITC banned the import of phones using the Qualcomm chips.Broadcom subsequently offered Qualcomm a deal whereby a $6 royalty would be paid to Broadcom on each Qualcomm handset sold using the technology, which extends the battery life of phones. Qualcomm rejected the offer and has since sought a presidential veto on the ban.