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Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.

October 2009

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Wireless Infrastructure Market Share

October 26, 2009

Note ZTE and Huawei are gaining share.

Global Smartphone Market Breakdown

October 26, 2009

From October 2009

Latest Handset and Smartphone Market Share

October 26, 2009

From an October 2009 report.

Frequency Band and Communications Systems Trends

October 26, 2009

A nice chart showing frequency band allocations by year and corresponding 3GPP releases.

Average Number of Frequency Bands per Cell Phone

October 26, 2009

Multiband UMTS is driving the number of frequency bands in cellular handsets.

M&A Cycles

October 21, 2009

Over the past 27 years M&A has followed a relatively predictable boom and  bust pattern – at least 5 years of accelerating volumes followed by 2 to 3 years of decline.

Shark Tank

October 21, 2009

Other than soccer I don’t watch much TV. Tonight though I caught the finale of Shark Tank. The Examiner gives a rundown. It was an interesting dynamic watching entrepreneurs and investors negotiate on TV. I couldn’t help but notice one even looks like fellow blogger (and original investor in my company) Mike Feinstein. I’m not sure I [...]

US Venture Capital Fundraising

October 14, 2009

Sobering parabolic statistics.

iPhone Tops in Smartphone Satisfaction

October 14, 2009

The iPhone continues to top all other smartphones in measures of consumer satisfaction. In May–June 2009, Crowd Science found it well ahead of the BlackBerry and other smartphones in measures of satisfaction and brand loyalty—and content usage too.

IMEC’s multi-threaded ADRES processor architecture ready for licensing

October 14, 2009

Leuven, Belgium – October 5, 2009 – Today, IMEC unveils the second generation of its ADRES processor architecture (architecture for dynamically reconfigurable embedded systems). ADRES now supports multithreading, and has doubled its performance and energy efficiency compared to the first ADRES generation. This positions ADRES as a building block for future 4G devices. ADRES can [...]

Cisco Predicts Huge Data Growth

October 14, 2009

Source: Cisco

Finland to enable field tests in Cognitive Radio

October 14, 2009

Finland wants to ensure that its legislation poses no difficulties for the development of Cognitive Radio and thus efficient use of spectrum. The Finnish legislation concerning radio spectrum will be amended accordingly during this autumn. Testing in Cognitive Radio is meant to be started in the beginning of next year.

Chinese Basestation Deployments

October 4, 2009

Broadcom Wireless Baseband Revenue by Customer

October 4, 2009

Published by Barclay’s.

2009 Prepaid Operator Satisfaction Survey

October 4, 2009

JD Power published their customer satisfaction ratings for prepaid service providers.

Free SCA Book for Download

October 4, 2009

Software Defined Radio: The Software Communications Architecture John Wiley & Sons | ISBN: 0470865180 | 2007 | PDF | 462 pages | 6.13 MB “ The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) establishes an implementation-independent framework for the development of Joint Tactical Radio System software configurable radios. It specifies the Operating Environment, services and interfaces that applications use. Software Defined Radio: The Software [...]

End-to-end Software Defined Radio Introduced by Element CXI

October 4, 2009

Element CXI introduced their nGEN Elemental Computing array for multi-mode, multi-band, multi-functional 4G wireless applications. “The nGEN ECA is the first truly dynamically reconfigurable solution capable of providing a single platform for applications ranging from 4G mobile handsets to macro-basestations,” said John Watson, Founder and Vice President of Marketing at Element CXI. “Until now designers had to [...]

Venture-Backed Exit Market Continues to Face Challenges Despite Largest IPO in 2.5 Years

October 1, 2009

Venture-backed company exit activity showed little signs of life during the third quarter of 2009 and fell far short of historical norms, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).