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

March 2011

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MIPS plans 64-bit multithreaded cores

March 29, 2011

Hoping to get a jump on archrival ARM, MIPS will launch this fall 64-bit synthesizable cores that support multithreading and issue multiple instructions per clock cycle.

Tensilica adds DSP in cellular battle

March 29, 2011

Tensilica ratcheted up its battle with rival Ceva for the cellular baseband market with the release of the Xtensa LX4 which supports 128-bit VLIW instructions.

ZTE to Deliver World's First LTE TDD/FDD Dual-Mode Infrastructure Equipment to …

March 29, 2011

In the deal, the delivered base stations will be based on ZTE's Uni-RAN SDR (Software Defined Radio) technology, which enables Hi3G to support all viable mobile standards and frequency bands, housing both the upgraded 3G network and the two version...

Nokia Confirms Symbian to Fade Away

March 28, 2011

Introduces new typeface and branding in effort to move forward

Open Source Wireless Mesh Networking Energy Meter

March 28, 2011

[Jay Kickliter] writes in to tell us about his open source energy/power meter. With his buddy [Frank Lynam] they designed a small device that crams into existing power boxes and uses and 8 core propeller (P8X32A) microcontroller to perform true RMS vo...

Overcoming the challenges of multicore software development

March 24, 2011

Multicore processors are increasingly getting deployed in a vast majority of applications, making it important that developers realize the challenges associated with designing, developing, debugging and deploying the software on such devices.

Altair, Alcatel-Lucent okay LTE chipset

March 24, 2011

Mobile communications chip company Altair Semiconductor Ltd. has announced that a combination of its FourGee 4G-LTE chipset and Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure has completed a three-month field trial with a U.S. wireless carrier and is now commercially a...

Altair Semiconductor's LTE Band Class 12 Solution Completes Trial

March 24, 2011

FourGee-3100, a 3GPP LTE baseband processor offered by Altair Semiconductor (News - Alert) is powered by a proprietary O2P Software Defined Radio (SDR) processor to deliver enhanced performance in comparison to usual communications DSP cores at a much ...

Sequans files for IPO

March 24, 2011

Sequans Communications S.A., a fabless supplier of 4G semiconductors, has filed an initial public offering in the U.S.

Multicore programmers must ‘think different’

March 21, 2011

Engineers need to think differently to be successful in the transition to multicore programming, according to UT professor Yale Pratt in online conference this week.

Emerging Wireless Technologies Innovation Leader: 4G LTE, M2M, Cognitive Radio

March 20, 2011

As an indicator of innovation status for emerging wireless communications technologies, patents among US market leadrs are researched. To find the key IPR holders, a keyword search of the USPTO patent data base has been performed as of Feb. 28, 2011.Fo...

Android Overtakes BlackBerry As the Top U.S. Smartphone Platform [REPORT]

March 8, 2011

The trend was obvious for quite some time, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers.According to comScore’s data, Google’s Android rose from 23.5% market share in October 2010 to 31.2% i...

Why Silicon Valley trumps Boston (data)

March 7, 2011

I love Boston. I lived there for five of the best years of my life, when I was working at D. E. Shaw & Co., and then when I attended Harvard Business School. If anyone asks, I always tell them, “if Boston had the same weather and career opportuni...

Android tops RIM in US smartphone market share, Apple’s iPhone third

March 7, 2011

Google's Android surpassed Research in Motion's BlackBerry to become the largest mobile platform at the start of 2011, while Apple's iOS and iPhone took third before the Verizon iPhone 4 was released.

CUDA 4.0 aims to ease parallel programming

March 2, 2011

Version 4.0 of Nvidia's CUDA toolkit for developing parallel applications using the company's graphics processors includes new features designed to make parallel programming easier and enable more developers to port their applications to graphics proce...

Xilinx provides details on ARM-based devices

March 2, 2011

Xilinx Inc. released deails for the first products in its Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) at Embedded World today. The Zynq-7000 family integrates a complete ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based system with 28nm, low-power programmable logic for s...

TI adds HD accelerators to DaVinci

March 2, 2011

Texas Instruments is unveiling two new DaVinci media processors featuring what the company proclaims the industry’s highest performing video engine.