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

August 2011

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Report: Android Dominating, Apple Holding Steady, RIM Dropping in U.S.

August 31, 2011

Market share-wise Android continues to dominate, Samsung also does well

29 Aug 2011 – Freescale rolls out first products in QorIQ Qonverge wireless base station processor portfolio

August 30, 2011

SHENZHEN, China, Aug 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) is now sampling the first "base station-on-chip" products built on its innovative QorIQ Qonverge multimode platform. The new QorIQ Qonverge PSC9132 system-on-chip (SoC...

Huawei’s LTE TDD Wireless Router Goes to 100

August 28, 2011

Huawei has announced commercial availability of the world’s first LTE TDD wireless broadband router, the Huawei B593, through Saudi Arabian operator Mobily in October this year, in conjunction with their large-scale LTE TDD network. The Huawei B593 ...

Tensilica DSP core does 100 GMACs at 1W

August 19, 2011

Tensilica described a new DSP core for next-generation cellular applications that when made in a 28nm process can compute 100 GMACs/second at less than a Watt.View the full article HERE.

MediaTek to Trial 4G LTE TDD Phone in China Soon

August 16, 2011

Taiwanese chipset vendor MediaTek has developed a handset for use on China's upcoming fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology known as LTE TDD, according to a company spokeswoman.

Altair Semiconductor Breaks TD-LTE Speed Record, Achieving More Than 100Mbps …

August 15, 2011

Altair's FourGee™ chipset is based on a proprietary high-performance, low power consumption SDR architecture - as opposed to standard DSP (Digital Signal Processor) architectures which are more common. In order to achieve such high throughputs, ....

Google to Buy Struggling Motorola Mobility

August 15, 2011

​Google agreeing today to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion gives the search giant a more significant direct involvement in the design and production of mobile phone hardware and shores up a valuable intellectual property portfoli...

mimoOn Integrates LTE PHY Software on Texas Instruments' New System-on-Chips …

August 6, 2011

DUISBURG, Germany, Aug 01, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software licensing for Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms, today announced its collaboration with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) for 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software. ....

Qualcomm renames SoCs, quad-core on track

August 6, 2011

Qualcomm rebranded its Snapdragon mobile applications processors and indicated some of its 28nm chips are now sampling.View the full article HERE.