February 20, 2012 Intel will show progress in research efforts to deliver more power efficient processors and digital RF capabilities at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. It will also give one of the first in-depth public disclosures of a next-generation Ivy Bridge processor. Read more

February 14, 2012 Intel tipped plans for a communications systems SoC, aiming to compete with the likes of Cavium, Freescale and OEM ASICs for high-end packet processing. Crystal Forest will have up to 16 x86 cores and be capable of handling up to 160 million packets per second of Layer 3 traffic. Read more

February 1, 2012 Standards for 3-D chip stacks need to be in place within six months to stay ahead of chips rolling out in 2013, said a Qualcomm executive driving some of the efforts. Read more

January 16, 2012 While CES has previously been a show filled with big announcements and brand new technologies, this year’s show was a little different, with more incremental advancements centered on refining devices people already own. Read more

January 11, 2012 Intel has provided details of its Medfield 32-nm platform for smartphones claiming that the main SoC consumes less than 800-mW worst case. It has also announced that it has deals in place with Lenovo and Motorola for products based on Medfield to appear in 2012. Read more

December 14, 2011 INSIDE Secure has announced it has entered into an agreement with Intel Corporation to provide its NFC products and technologies. The agreement marks a significant milestone for INSIDE Secure and the future of the NFC industry, helping move this emerging technology towards full-scale market adoption. Read more

October 12, 2011 Ultrawideband is back. The IMEC research institute will describe and demonstrate early next year a chip set using the technology that sunk a handful of startups a few years ago. UWB rode up and down the hype curve in the past decade as Intel and others tried to harness it as the transport for wireless USB, outfitted with the WiMedia air interface for 100 Mbit/second data rates. Read more

September 26, 2011 A new group aims to hammer out by March 2014 standards for running 100 Gbit/second Ethernet signals over backplanes and copper cables. The IEEE P802.3bj task force will plow a path for the next generation of data center and carrier systems that already are being outfitted with 40 and 100G Ethernet line interfaces. Read more

May 25, 2011 Ubiquisys has announced a strategic agreement with Intel to develop intelligent basestation (BTS) computing platforms based on Intel architecture. This emerging generation of intelligent small cells (small base stations) will offer new levels of processing power, creating a cloud of IP-enabled "compute engines" much closer to mobile users. Read more

May 25, 2011 Redpine Signals, Inc., is taking a new approach to providing robust high definition video over 802.11n Wi-Fi. Its Maxi-Fi Beam450 family can be configured in software to deliver physical-layer data streams on a single band at 450 Mbits/s or over simultaneous 2.4 and 5 GHz links at 150 and 300 Mbits/s rates. Read more

April 12, 2011 The Oak Trail version of Intel's Atom processor is shipping and finding its way into netbooks and tablets. Intel plans a follow version, a 32-nm dual-core Atom processor called Cedar Trail that integrates all system I/O and will ship before the end of the year. Read more

April 4, 2011 Processor intellectual property licensor MIPS Technologies is fully involved in Android antifragmentation efforts and is one of many companies invited to participate by Google, according to Art Swift, vice president of business development and marketing at MIPS. Read more

March 22, 2011 Molex Incorporated has joined with other researchers to advance the goals of the Danish SAFE (Smart Antenna Front End) project. Scheduled to span four years, the $8.7 million project is being conducted by a consortium comprising: Aalborg University, Intel Mobile Communications, WiSpry and Molex. Read more

March 22, 2011 Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group (UMG) at Intel Corp., said that he will be leaving Intel ''to pursue other interests,'' according to the chip giant Read more

March 15, 2011 Intel Corp., has announced it has acquired most of the assets of Sysdsoft, a privately held software company based in Cairo and hired approximately 100 of the company's electrical engineers and computer scientists. Sysdsoft Ltd., (Cairo, Egypt), founded in 2002, develops software stacks and designs RF and analog circuits for the physical layer domain for use embedded in mobile platforms. Read more

March 9, 2011 Software giant Microsoft will pay mobile phone company Nokia more than $1 billion to promote and develop handsets that run the Windows operating system, according to a Bloomberg report that cites two un-named sources. Read more

February 15, 2011 Intel, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm and others have rolled out baseband devices-or cell-phone chipsets-for handsets and other products. Read more

February 15, 2011 Nokia's agreement with Microsoft to make Windows Phone 7 its principal operating system is likely to have a negative near-term impact on the mobile handset leader's smart phone shipments. Read more

December 14, 2010 A handful of companies are have agreed to draft a standard that could help unify fragmented wireless and wired home networks. The IEEE 1905.1 group has backing from Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Intel, Marvell, Toshiba and others. Read more

November 9, 2010 Is Intel Corp. re-entering the DSP business? In a major move, Intel has licensed Ceva Inc.'s digital signal processor (DSP) intellectual property (IP). Read more

November 4, 2010 Infineon's wireless business unit, which is in the process of being acquired by Intel Corp., is taking over Blue Wonder Communications GmbH, a specialist in LTE communications. Read more

September 24, 2010 ARM will triumph over Intel as smartphones and tablets disrupt the x86 PC industry, said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, speaking at the company's annual conference. "It's a foregone conclusion that the personal computer of the future is this size," said Huang, holding up his smartphone. "You could add wireless HDMI to it someday, and it could also be your set-top box," he added. Read more

September 22, 2010 Qualcomm could displace cell-phone chipsets from Intel/Infineon in all iPhones from Apple by next year, according to an analyst. At present, Apple's iPhone line uses a cell-phone chipset from Infineon Technologies AG. The carrier for the phone is AT&T. Recently, Intel Corp. acquired Infineon's wireless chip business, thereby grabbing the Apple iPhone account. Read more

September 22, 2010 Intel Corp. has announced that it has signed a three-year, $1.5 million research collaboration with the Tyndall National Institute at the University of Cork in Ireland. The research collaboration while broad, covering materials and devices, specifically includes work on a recent development at Tyndall, the junctionless transistor. Read more

September 1, 2010 Intel Corp. will operate the wireless business it is set to acquire from Infineon Technologies AG as a separate business, according to executives speaking at a press conference called to discuss the deal. Read more

August 30, 2010 Infineon Technologies AG and Intel Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Infineon's Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel in a cash transaction valued at approximately USD 1.4 billion. Read more

July 27, 2010 In a move that should provide encouragement for Intel and a warning to embedded electronics rival ARM, the Linux Foundation has announced the Genivi Alliance has chosen MeeGo as the basis of its next reference release for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI). Read more

July 23, 2010 The battle between WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the leading supplier of mobile broadband communications is over. WiMax is shrinking, according to Mike Bryant, an analyst with market research company Future Horizons. He pointed out that WiMax operators in the U.K. and The Netherlands are closing and that U.S. operators are considering re-applying their spectrum to other technologies. Read more

June 17, 2010 At this week's 2010 Symposium on VLSI Circuits in Hawaii, Intel Corp. has put a new twist on its previously-announced 32-nm process: It claims the technology is suitable for radio-frequency (RF) and system-on-a-chip (SOC) integration. Read more

June 16, 2010 Baseband chip supplier PicoChip Design Ltd. has secured an additional $20 million of equity funding to support expansion plans in the femtocell market. The ten-year-old company said it is on track to achieve 50 percent quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth in the second quarter. Read more

June 8, 2010 CSR is collaborating with Intel Corporation to jointly develop a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combination solution for the PC market, as part of CSR's ongoing selective partnership strategy. Read more

May 19, 2010 In meetings in Beijing this week engineers are hammering out the future of Wi-Fi. The IEEE 802.11ad group is essentially a replay of a long standing conflict between two opposing camps in 60 GHz wireless technology. Read more