April 4, 2012 Anritsu has entered into a factory test technology licensing agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated for Qualcomm’s factory test solutions. Read more

March 16, 2012 Mobile systems are driving toward better graphics, better voice quality and quad-core processors, according to veteran market watcher. Read more

February 28, 2012 The mobile industry took a few small but significant steps toward the holy grail of a unified technology at the Mobile World Congress 2012. Read more

February 21, 2012 Avago, Broadcom and Qualcomm have been awarded three-year chip deals by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., worth $6 billion. Read more

February 17, 2012 The global smartphone applications processor market registered a robust 70 percent year-on-year growth to reach USD 7.9 billion in calendar year 2011, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report, “Smartphone Apps Processor Market Share: Rising Star Broadcom Storms into Top-Five in 2011.” Read more

February 3, 2012 Qualcomm has announced that, working with Ericsson AB, it has completed a voice call handover from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA network using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) technology. 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

November 9, 2011 Qualcomm Incorporated has acquired substantially all of the technology and other assets of HaloIPT, a leading provider of wireless charging technology for electric road vehicles. All members of the HaloIPT team have joined Qualcomm's European Innovation Development group based in the UK. Read more

October 12, 2011 Silex's latest Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi radio modules and security supplicant software offerings are now integrated and available for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY real-time operating system – the foundation for its Platform for Secure Wireless Devices. Read more

October 10, 2011 Qualcomm has released a white paper on its next-generation Snapdragon S4 mobile applications processor, giving a few additional details of the 28nm chip expected to ship before June 2012. The S4, designed for 28-nm process technology, includes up to four custom Krait cores based on Qualcomm extensions to the ARM Cortex A9. Read more

September 21, 2011 According to a report from Strategy Analytics, Qualcomm took 51.5% revenue share in the smart phone applications processor market in Q2 of this year. Qualcomm, Samsung, TI, Marvell and Nvidia featured in the top 5 in both shipment and revenue, and despite TI’s strong OMAP family it fell to number three in the rankings overall. Read more

September 21, 2011 Nvidia will pack five cores into its next-generation mobile CPUs using a novel technique it describes as Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP) to claim a power efficiency edge over rivals Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. Read more

September 14, 2011 Qualcomm have expanded availability of their Femtocell Station Modem™ (FSM™) FSM9216, FSM9816 and FSM9832 enterprise chipsets. These fully integrated system-on-chip (SoC) systems for femtocell development offer an extended user capacity of up to 32 active users, and complement the currently available FSM 3G femtocell chipsets that feature eight user versions targeting the residential market with hardware and software compatibility. Read more

August 4, 2011 Qualcomm rebranded its Snapdragon processors and indicated some of its 28nm chips are now sampling. The company now places its integrated applications processors with names like the MSM7225 into four broad buckets, organized by performance and feature sets. Read more

July 12, 2011 Through its integration with select Qualcomm chipsets such as the MSM8xxx Mobile Station Modem series and the Snapdragon family, OK Labs says it virtualisation technology, OKL4, can now be found in mobile devices from Apple, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung and others. Read more

June 28, 2011 Qualcomm, Inc., has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Broadcom Corp., and Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) claimed the second and third spots in the company's most recent evaluation of worldwide GPS IC vendors. Read more

June 20, 2011 Global revenue from smartphone applications processors reached $1.68 billion in the first quarter, up a whopping 108 percent compared to the first quarter of 2010, while cellular baseband sales grew 20 percent year-to-year, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics Inc. Read more

June 15, 2011 Qualcomm Incorporated has announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Read more

June 6, 2011 Qualcomm will release over the next nine months what amounts to a set of applications programming interfaces geared to give Web-based applications deeper links into hardware. The plan is part of the company's effort to enable a shift away from today's fragmented set of native mobile environments. 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 20, 2011 Silicon integration will be the key differentiator in smartphones which could grow to 600 million units in 2014, driven by expansion in low-cost handsets, according to a presentation at the inaugural Linley Tech Mobile Conference. Read more

March 22, 2011 With its purchase of T-Mobile USA, AT&T appears to be continuing to use acquisitions to gain control of more of the limited supply of wireless spectrum required to compete in the market for 4G services. AT&T announced it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG in a deal worth $39 billion. Read more

March 7, 2011 Agilent Technologies have signed a licensing agreement with Qualcomm covering factory test technology. Read more

February 15, 2011 Qualcomm has unveiled, at the Mobile World Congress, its road map for integrated and standalone LTE silicon—including an integrated quad-core processor — using 28-nm process technology. 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 1, 2011 TriQuint Semiconductor has announced its first Multi-Mode Power Amplifier (MMPA) module developed for Qualcomm's 3G/4G chipset solution. The TQM7M9023, a member of the TRIUMF Module™ family, combines with TriQuint's industry leading TRITIUM PA-Duplexer Module™ family to offer a complete RF system solution for smartphones and other mobile devices. Read more

February 1, 2011 DSP intellectual property supplier Ceva Inc. has claimed that is now the world's leading DSP architecture deployed in cellular baseband processors. Read more

January 7, 2011 Qualcomm Incorporated and Duracell have announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to explore the possibility of working together to develop an industry alliance that supports and promotes flexible coupling-based wireless power solutions to the consumer electronics industry. Read more

January 6, 2011 Qualcomm Inc.'s surprising move to acquire Atheros Communications Inc. for $3.1 billion will enable Qualcomm to accelerate its efforts in the ''combo'' or integrated cellular-chip platform arena. Read more

January 5, 2011 Qualcomm is closing in on a $3.5 billion deal to acquire fellow wireless chip maker Atheros Communications Inc., according to a New York Times report that cites two anonymous sources. Read more

December 21, 2010 DigitalAria claims its FXUI S3D plug-in offers the world's first commercialized vector graphics based engine supporting Flash content as a standalone player. The extended FXUI-3D engine has been designed to enable a rich multimedia user experience and includes Flash playback and graphics capabilities for mobile phones and other consumer electronics, with supports for multiple platforms including Android, Windows and Linux operating systems. Read more

October 19, 2010 Sierra Wireless has launched a suite of new products designed for LTE networks, claimed to provide users wireless access at download speeds of up to 100 Mbps and upload speeds up to 50 Mbps. It will support all major network technologies and offer compatibility with existing 2G and 3G services, to support national and international roaming worldwide. Read more

October 18, 2010 Baseband-integrated applications processors are gaining market share in the smartphone market, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. 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 14, 2010 Qualcomm has no immediate plans to bring near field communications (NFC) into its semiconductor offering for makers of mobile handsets. Even though Qualcomm has engineers working on NFC it is not offering its own silicon and steers handset makers to work with third-party suppliers of NFC chipsets. Read more

June 18, 2010 Mobile communications technology company Qualcomm Inc. could come under an investigation by the European Commission after allegations that it has used incentives to try and dissuade customers from dealing with U.K. company Icera Inc. Read more

June 1, 2010 Qualcomm Incorporated has sampled its first dual-CPU Snapdragon™ chipsets. The Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) MSM8260™ and MSM8660™ integrate two of the company's enhanced cores running at up to 1.2 GHz. Read more

March 18, 2010 AnyDATA Corporation has announced the DTW series of low cost embedded CDMA and GSM/HSPA modules designed for mobile Internet devices. The tiny broadband modules measure only 21-mm x 22-mm x 4.5-mm, which is smaller in size than a quarter and weighs only 4 grams. Read more

March 18, 2010 Qualcomm Incorporated has filed an application with the Indian Government to bid in India's upcoming auction for BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band to facilitate the deployment of TD-LTE. TD-LTE is compatible with 3G WCDMA/HSPA and EV-DO, and will enable a seamless broadband experience for consumers within India and while roaming globally. Read more