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

August 2010

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30 Ways to Rate a College

August 31, 2010

With two of my kids in college and another one headed there this year I was delighted to find an article on how colleges are rated by the various magazines.

Finally Official? – Intel to buy Infineon Wireless for $1.4B

August 30, 2010

VentureBeat is reporting that Intel has agreed to purchase Infineon’s mobile chip business for $1.4 billion, the companies said late Sunday. The move by the world’s largest chip maker will help boost the company’s presence in smartphones, which have begun to dominate the computing landscape. Rumors of the deal have been around for a while.

Analyst: Infineon, TI are second tier in mobile chips

August 18, 2010

EE Times reports Infineon, Marvell, Renesas and Texas Instruments are forming the second tier of chip suppliers to the mobile phone industry and the mobile business units of these companies are potentially liable to merger and acquisition activity, according to Mike Bryant, an analyst with Future Horizons. Companies with even less [...]

CTIA claims SF phone radiation law unconstitutional

August 17, 2010

The Register reports Cellular trade body The CTIA is challenging a San Francisco ordinance that requires radiation labels on every mobile phone sold, claiming that such a rule breaches the US constitution. The ordinance, passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in June, requires buyers to be informed “at the point of [...]

LTE Patent Battle

August 16, 2010

DailyWireless reports The dream of driving down LTE royalty levels dramatically is fading, says Caroline Gabriel at Rethink Research. Intel and Samsung have sought to spearhead an open, transparent and low royalty structure for WiMAX patents and formed the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) in June 2008. That doesn’t seem to be the case with LTE. Qualcomm [...]

Smartphone Comparison Chart

August 15, 2010

Lifehacker has a nice features chart here. If you’re in the market for a current generation smartphone all the new features and specs can be confusing at best. This extensive—but easy to read!—chart will help you navigate the world of smartphone features and specifications.

Octasic Introduces New Multi-Core DSP Device for Wireless Baseband

August 14, 2010

MONTREAL, Canada – June 21, 2010 – Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing and wireless solutions, today announced the industry’s most efficient multi-core DSP devices for basestation PHY and MAC. The OCT2224W is part of Octasic’s latest family of multi-core DSP solutions (see related announcement). Delivering three times [...]

CEA-Leti Unveils Low-Power Reconfigurable Multicore Chip for Software-Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio

August 13, 2010

GRENOBLE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CEA-Leti announced today that it has developed a digital baseband circuit for software-defined-radio and cognitive-radio applications that features less than 50 microseconds (µs) for full reconfiguration and [...]

Cognovo launches Software Defined Modem solution for LTE handsets

August 12, 2010

Cambridge, UK – 17 June 2010 – Cognovo today announces its Software Defined Modem (SDM) platform designed to significantly reduce cost, size and design complexity for developers of cellular handsets and other wireless enabled consumer electronic products.  The SDM platform is already under evaluation at leading handset OEMs who are seeing for themselves how Cognovo’s software centric design flow [...]

Imec’s cognitive baseband radio to support 4G and broadband access to multiple services

August 11, 2010

Leuven, Belgium – June 8, 2010 – Imec introduces a cognitive baseband radio (COBRA) architecture targeting 4G requirements at up to 1Gbit/s throughput and multiple asynchronous concurrent streams (for instance simultaneous digital broadcasting reception and high-speed internet access). The low-cost, flexible architecture answers a new trend in wireless communication where [...]

Renesas Electronics to acquire Nokia’s wireless modem business

August 10, 2010

Espoo, Finland and Tokyo, Japan – Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Nokia Corporation, the world leader in mobile communications, today announced that they are deepening their collaboration by forming a strategic business alliance to develop modem technologies for HSPA+/LTE (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access / Long-Term Evolution) and its evolution. As [...]

More than 321 Million Handsets Shipped Globally in 2Q-2010

August 9, 2010

ABI reports Nokia continued to shed market share, declining to 34.5% Samsung was #2 LG notched up an increase in share to 9.5% RIM, with a 3.5% share Apple with a 2.6% share Motorola with a 2.6% share