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Samsung Galaxy S4 carries $236 bill of materials
March 20, 2013
The HSPA+ version of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S4 smartphone carries a $236 bill of materials (BOM), up significantly from last year’s model—the Galaxy S III—due to major upgrades in the display, sensors and application processor and supporting memory, according to a virtual teardown conducted by the IHS iSuppli Mobile Handset Cost Model Service at information and analytics provider IHS.
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Intel says no LTE integration until 2014
February 3, 2013
Intel Corp., is making progress with its development of LTE modems but does not expect to have an integrated LTE modem and application processor until 2014, according to CEO Paul Otellini.
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Samsung drops Qualcomm for own chipset in Galaxy SIII E210s
November 21, 2012
The Galaxy SIII E210s was released in Korea recently and with its launch, Samsung sent a message to the chipset giant Qualcomm by dropping the Qualcomm modem in favor of its home grown solution.
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Intel gains toe hold in smartphone apps processor market
October 10, 2012
Intel recorded a 0.2 percent share by unit shipments of the global smartphone applications processor market in the first half of 2012, up from zero previously, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. Meanwhile, Qualcomm maintained market dominance with 48 percent revenue share.
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Intel looks to beat ARM on power consumption beyond 20 nm
September 25, 2012
Though ARM may currently have an advantage in low power processing, Intel believes it could eventually take the lead if it maintains its current pace of advancement in process technology.
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Intel energizes wireless charging effort
September 5, 2012
Intel Corp., has selected mixed-signal fabless chip company Integrated Device Technology Inc., to make transmitter and receiver ICs to implement Intel's resonant wireless energy transfer technology.
Read more Jaguar processor from AMD boasts four cores for mobile applications
August 29, 2012
Advanced Micro Devices will describe Jaguar, a low-power x86 core for notebooks, tablets and embedded systems at Hot Chips. Jaguar packs four x86 cores into one unit with a large shared L2 cache to compete both with Intel’s Core and Atom chips.
Read more RF/IF rackmount recorder offers dual channels for ultra wideband signals
August 22, 2012
Pentek's ultra wide-band RF/IF rackmount recorder, the Talon RTS 2709, uses 12-bit, 3.6 GHz A/D converters and state-of-the-art solid state drive storage technology to sustain recording rates up to 3.2 Gbytes per second.
Read more Intel adds power amplifiers to 3G RF chip
August 1, 2012
Intel Corporation has announced the integration of a 3G HSPA radio frequency transceiver with power amplifiers on a single 65-nm die.
Read more Ubiquisys demonstrates smart cells based on Intel architecture in mobile network
June 25, 2012
Ubiquisys will demonstrate smart cells running on a live mobile network at Small Cells World Summit in London on 26 to 28 June. These smart cells represent a new class of device: a small cell base station with a fully integrated cloud computing platform.
Read more Automotive cellular M2M communications module claims to be smallest on the market
June 15, 2012
Cinterion claims to offer the smallest surface mount automotive M2M module available, providing global voice and data communications for vehicle telematics.
Read more Huawei to give Intel LTE development support in China
May 1, 2012
Intel's aspirations selling chips for mobile equipment have received a boost with the news that Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has agreed to work with Intel on the testing and rapid deployment of the time division duplex format applied to Long Term Evolution standard.
Read more Intel grabs 15% of cellular baseband market
April 20, 2012
Qualcomm and Intel were the two market leaders in the 2011 cellular baseband market according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.
Read more Digi International and Wind River cooperate on cloud-connected wireless M2M solutions
March 28, 2012
Digi International and Wind River will jointly deliver a new family of cloud-connected wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, the M2M Solution Builder kits, including a combination of hardware, software, cloud connectivity and access to tailored M2M development services.
Read more Intel's new partnerships and processors for the mobile space
February 29, 2012
Intel’s foray into the smartphone space is a “marathon, not a sprint,” according to the firm’s CEO Paul Otellini. Speaking at a company press conference on Monday, where the firm announced new partnerships with Orange, Lava International Ltd., ZTE and Visa, Otellini reminded attendees that Intel was no stranger to the mobile market, having been involved in RF for many years.
Read more Path to optical links still dark
February 21, 2012
Experts agree printed circuit boards and processors will eventually need optical interconnects. But just when and how the industry will get there is still unclear.
Read more Intel focuses on low power, digital RF
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 Intel targets data plane with new comms SoC
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 3-D IC standards needed within six months
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 Analyst claims Windows on ARM will not be much of a success
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 Intel details Medfield for smartphones and announces Lenovo, Motorola deals
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 Inside Secure agrees technology transfer and services agreements with Intel
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 IMEC brings back ultrawideband
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 Group will define 100G backplanes, cables
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 Ubiquisys collaborates with Intel to develop intelligent small cells
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 Redpine rolls flexible Wi-Fi chip set
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 At mobile impasse, Intel tips Atom progress
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 MIPS: Android remains processor neutral
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 Molex antenna business unit joins Danish SAFE (Smart Antenna Front End) consortium
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 Intel's mobile chief resigns
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 Intel buys Egyptian communications startup
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 Report: Microsoft to pay Nokia $1 billion for support
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 Baseband mania hits Mobile World
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 Nokia/Microsoft alliance carries downside for cell phone giant
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 IEEE drafts hybrid home net standard
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 Intel licenses DSP
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 Intel to acquire Dresden LTE firm
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 Nvidia: ARM smartphones will bury x86 PCs
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 Analyst: iPhone to sole source Qualcomm chip
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 Intel taps junctionless transistor research
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 Intel will run wireless as separate business
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 Intel to acquire Infineon’s Wireless Solutions business
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 MeeGo in-vehicle win gives embedded Intel a boost
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 WiMax shrinking, LTE has issues
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 Intel's 32-nm process ready for RF
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 PicoChip raises $20 million for femto push
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 CSR and Intel to collaborate on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combination solution for PCs
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 60 GHz groups face off in Beijing over Wi-Fi's future
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.
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