BUSINESS BRIEFING / TRADE
Times Wire Reports
Broadcom Corp. won an order limiting U.S. imports of some navigation devices and personal digital assistants that run on chips made by SiRF Technology Holdings Inc.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said SiRF chips brought into the U.S. for testing purposes, and devices made by Pharos Science & Applications Inc., Mitac International Corp.’s Mio Technology and E-Ten Corp., should be barred.
Global Locate, a maker of chips for global positioning systems that Irvine-based Broadcom bought in 2007, is vying with SiRF to provide semiconductors to Garmin Ltd. and TomTom, the biggest makers of the navigation devices.
