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

April 2010

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Connectivity Attach Rates

April 30, 2010

Estimated attach rates by connectivity standard.

Smartphones to grow but with steep ASP declines

April 28, 2010

Goldman Sachs predicts despite the pricing pressure on smartphones, new capabilities such as broadband internet browsing and satellite navigation with turn-by-turn directions mean new connectivity options must be added.

Baseband Unit Market Share

April 27, 2010

Broadcom is expected to gain while TI declines.

Broadcom Baseband Customer Ramp Estimates

April 26, 2010

Goldman Sach’s expects Broadcom’s mobile and wireless segment to remain the company’s most critical growth driver through 2011, and the most critical swing factor for the stock as well. Following a series of recent checks, we believe we now have better visibility on the ramp of Broadcom’s cellular business, and we forecast Broadcom’s baseband revenue [...]

ZTE Bumps Motorola

April 9, 2010

Anyone remember Siemens handsets…? Researcher iSuppli says ZTE broke into the top five handset makers while Moto slipped to No. 6. In much of the world, ZTE is better known as a maker of telecom networking equipment and data cards than cellphones. But research firm iSuppli says the Shenzhen-based technology company shipped enough [...]

FCC Okays Terrestrial LTE for SkyTerra

April 6, 2010

Daily wireles reports Infineon, SkyTerra, and TerreStar Networks are jointly developing a multi-standard mobile platform based on Infineon’s software-defined-radio (SDR) technology. Infineon’s SDR mobile platform, called XMM SDR 200, requires only one single baseband device, the X-GOLD™ SDR 20 and one single RF transceiver.

T-Mobile’s LT-Max

April 5, 2010

Daily Wireless has a nice article on LT-Max. Similar to the FCC’s “White Space” initiative, where television band spectrum can be used by unlicensed devices, the T-Mobile proposal, called LT-MAX, would merge the technology of White Spaces (“listen before transmit” and transmitter mapping), with Software Defined Radios that can change frequency and [...]

ARM boosted startup with Belgian DSP

April 5, 2010

The EE Times has a nice article on Cognovo. In November 2009, shortly after ARM (Cambridge, England) said it would close its DSP development operation in Heverlee, Belgium, Cognovo took on approximately half ARM’s Belgian contigent, according to a local report. In addition, ARM provided the vector signal processing IP developed there [...]