This year WiFi chip-set shipments will top two billion for the first time, continuing a five year run of annual double digit growth, reports IHSThere’s three more years of annual double digit growth to come with the shipments in 2016 reaching 3.7bn units up from this year…
Samsung’s claim that it has invented 5G – a technology that can deliver 1Gbps over 2km at 28GHz has come in for some wry comments.
Not least from Will Strauss, America’s foremost wireless analyst, who says: “At 28 GHz, precipitation in the form of fog, rain, snow or hail…
Chinese vendors took 20% of the tablet applications processor market last year, while Intel captured 0.2% of the smartphone applications processor market, reports Strategy Analytics.
Both Qualcomm and Intel did pretty badly in tablet apps processors snapping up only 5% of the market between them.
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We were never told why Intel wanted a change in CEO. But now were are told the new CEO got the job by a pitch to the Intel board showing how he would accelerate Intel’s move into mobile.
So it’s a fair bet that the whole six month…
Qualcomm Inside is said to be the current marketing strategy from the San Diego wireless supremo.
Apparently it is preparing films and advertising to spread the glories of Snapdragon to the mobile chattering classes.
All very well. Intel Inside did a fine job for the x86 architecture in PCs. Good…
The highest cellular chip growth rate last year was the multimode stand-alone (3G/LTE) baseband chip market at 892% for a total of $852 million, reports Forward Concepts.
That represented 50 million modems and another 20 million 3G/LTE digital basebands integrated with application processors (DBB Apps Processors) brought…
Swindon-based Ubiquisys, the small cell and femtocell specialist, has been bought by Cisco for $310m, a figure which includes employee retention costs.
Last August Ubiquisys raised $19m taking the amount of capital it has raised to $81m. It has shipped over 50,000 public small cells and its adaptive…
Qualcomm’s RF front end chip-set could trigger a big payday for a small UK company.
Last week Qualcomm announced its entry into the RF front end business with a chip-set using a technique called envelope tracking.
Envelope tracking was invented by the UK company Nujira of Cambridge…