Sony Ericsson Sounds the Alarm

When Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) warned on Q1 earnings last week, market watchers recalled Nokia, and the cell-phone-making joint venture between Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Ericsson's (Nasdaq: ERIC) (appropriately named "Sony Ericsson"). Last year, both companies announced that they planned to diversify their supply lines and buy more cell-phone chips from ABTI ("anybody but TI").

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