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

January 2010

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Network Performance – or when is a hub better than a switch?

January 21, 2010

Today is one of those crazy days where my network can not even seem to sustain a voip call. Frankly this really annoys me so I decided to debug my network. Recently I upgraded my home office to a business class cable modem with 5/22Mbps service. Simultaneously with that (yes, unadvised in any network deployment) [...]

2010 Economic Outlook

January 11, 2010

Goldman Sachs predicts:

2G/3G Patent IP Ownership

January 11, 2010

Interesting charts on who owns what 2G/3G IP and what they collect in royalties for that IP. The same report states that Apple pays significantly less royalty for the iPhone. It is suspected to be in the 5.5% range.

Spectral Efficiency

January 11, 2010

There are no easy or inexpensive solutions to increasing wireless capacity. Like Moore’s Law in semiconductors, Wireless has its own rule of thumb governing the number of bits that can be transmitted over a given amount of wireless spectrum. Mobile phone pioneer Martin Cooper has posited that the number of “conversations” that can be simultaneously [...]

The iHog iPhone

January 11, 2010

The average iPhone user consumes 5-7x the monthly bandwidth of an average wireless voice subscriber, and 2x+ the amount of an average 3G/smartphone phone user, or 250 – 350 MB. Despite notable usage differences, 3G pricing plans for smartphones in the US have remained relatively fixed price, in contrast to usage based pricing offerings in [...]

Handset industry recovers from a trough, but who would benefit going forward?

January 8, 2010

During its 3Q09 results release, Nokia raised its 2009 global handset shipment forecast from -10% to -7% yoy. Goldman Sachs believes this signals that the worst is over for the global handset market; although this seemed to be widely expected by the market, handsetrelated stocks reacted positively post Nokia results (23% /55% share price appreciation for [...]

The Future of Content Without Walls

January 8, 2010

“Even as the landscape evolves, the market for portable electronics is growing unabated,” said Noah Elkin, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “Always-On Devices and Networks: New Opportunities to Reach Consumers.”

Marketing, Not Ads, Fuels Social Spending Growth

January 8, 2010

“In 2010 and beyond, a substantial portion of marketers’ expenses will go toward creating and maintaining a fan page, managing promotions or public relations outreach within a social network, and measuring the impact of a social network presence on brand health and sales,” wrote eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson in the report, “Social Network [...]

German Forces Trust in Thales for Software Defined Radio

January 8, 2010

Thales Deutschland has been awarded contracts to develop VHF/UHF radio module and national waveforms SEM and IdZ for the German Software Defined Radio programme, SVFuA. Stuttgart / Pforzheim, 16 December 2009 – SVFuA is the German Software Defined Radio (SDR) programme that will bring next generation radio technology to the Bundeswehr, the German Federal Armed Forces. [...]

Microtune Introduces Breakthrough Receiver Chip Delivering Superior Performance, Cost and Sizeto Worldwide Digital TV Market

January 8, 2010

New RF-to-Baseband IC Delivers Uncompromised TV Receiver Performanceat Compelling Price Point New Chip Enables Manufacturers to Deploy a Smaller, Higher-Performance and More Cost-Effective Receiver in Global Designs for the Next Generation of Thinner, Lighter, Multi-Functional TVs PLANO, Texas, Dec 10, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Microtune(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: TUNE) [...]

ONR Awards $9.5M SDR Contract to Raytheon

January 8, 2010

The award is to Conduct a base study effort in FY 2010 on the development of an open architecture software defined radio system. Further information is available here.