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

September 2011

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Softband Mobile Goes TD-LTE

September 29, 2011

Delegates of 24 operators from Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa attended the 2nd Global TD-LTE Initiative in Munich, to focus on TD-LTE technology. Around 40 attendees used the commercial and pre-commercial TD-LTE USB dongles provided by Huawe...

Sequans Working with Huawei on TD-LTE Large Scale Trial in Shenzhen for China Mobile

September 28, 2011

Sequans Communications S.A. and Huawei today jointly announced that they would begin a large scale trial in Shenzhen. This trial will be conducted on China Mobile's TD-LTE network deployed by Huawei, using devices based on Sequans' TD-LTE chipset.

Sprint’s LTE Plans Leaked

September 27, 2011

Sprint is already installing LTE equipment and has been field testing the network in select areas, reports C/Net. The company hopes to launch commercial service by the end of the first quarter, although it’s unclear how many markets will get the serv...

ABI Research Teardown: Motorola Designs Own LTE Chip for Droid Bionic

September 27, 2011

​Motorola started shipping its highly anticipated Droid Bionic less than a couple weeks ago. As part of its Teardown research service, ABI Research has dismantled, analyzed, and tested the device down to the component level. The conclusion?  The sec...

CERN Physicists Observe First Faster-Than-Light Long-Distance Travel

September 26, 2011

Neutrinos are first ever observed example of faster-than-light travel in a non-medium, defy laws of physics

Does white space need to be Weightless?

September 25, 2011

A new protocol for a new wavelength Next week will see the formal launch of the Weightless radio protocol, designed for use in the soon-to-be-available white space frequencies. But can a protocol without weight really do it all?…

LTE sales overtake WiMax, says analyst

September 21, 2011

The market for mobile communications infrastructure is growing strongly, according to market research firm Infonetics Research Inc., which said that LTE infrastructure equipment spending greater than that of WiMax for the first time in 2Q11.View the fu...

Clearwire, China Mobile Partner Up To Expand LTE

September 17, 2011

It’s no secret that Clearwire is looking at rolling out an LTE network of their own here in the States, but a recently announced partnership could bring them some big support from overseas.

Lossy GCT files for $100 million IPO

September 16, 2011

GCT Semiconductor Inc., a loss-making fabless chip company that supplies chips for WiMax and LTE communications, has filed papers for an initial public offering of stock to be traded on NASDAQ that would raise up to $100 million.View the full article H...

RIM and the lamentation of the analyst

September 16, 2011

RIM shipped 10.6 million Blackberries and 200,000 PlayBooks in the last quarter. Management noted that their sell-through was significantly higher for Blackberry (13.7 million) but seems to be very weak for PlayBook as the prior quarter saw 500k units ...

Mobile Impossible

September 15, 2011

In yesterday’s post about the “biggest mobile loser” I covered the exodus of users from non-smart devices in the US and EU5. I also said that what happens in those regions tends to happen in other regions with a time shift. In some regions it hap...

Sequans LTE chip wins Chinese approval

September 14, 2011

Sequans Communications SA has announced that its LTE communications chip, the SQN3010, has been approved by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), a government entity responsible for the regulation and development of China's wi...

World’s First TD-LTE Service Launched by Mobily

September 14, 2011

Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) claims to have become the first operator in the world to launch commercial service using the emerging TDD version of LTE. TD-LTE coverage will exceed 32 cities and towns, representing 85 percent of the populated areas in Saudi...

20% of Asia-Pacific Mobile Handset IC Market Revenues Went to Taiwanese and Chinese IC Vendors in 2010

September 14, 2011

​Chinese and Taiwanese IC vendors were the source of almost 20% of market revenues from ICs shipped into the Asian market in 2010, benefitting vendors such as Hisilicon Technologies, Himax Semiconductor, Leadcore Technology, MediaTek, MStar Semicondu...

Biggest mobile loser? The non-smart phone

September 14, 2011

Yesterday comScore published survey results for EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) on smartphone use and installed base. The headline is very similar to what would be written about the US: Android had phenomenal growth over the last twelve months....

Intel Mandates Universities Receiving Funds Not File Patents

September 13, 2011

sproketboy writes "Since January, four U.S. universities have agreed to host Intel Science and Technology Centers that will be funded at the rate of $2.5 million a year for five years. But wait, there's a catch: the company has made it a condition that...

UT Austin's Yale Patt Wins New IEEE Award

September 12, 2011

Yale N. Patt, an electrical and computer engineering professor with the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the first recipient of the inaugural IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award.

Rogers Wireless applies to become bank

September 8, 2011

Canadian operator goes a step further than most cellcos in seeking pole position in mobile payments market

RIM for Sale? Amid Plunging Market Share Investors Say Make it Happen

September 7, 2011

Two separate proposals suggest sale of intellectual property and shakeup of executive ranks

Single Chip LTE from Marvell

September 7, 2011

Marvell has introduced a single-chip LTE world modem, the PXA1801, which combines FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE with R8 DC-HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA as well as plain vanilla EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution), allowing it to work in just about any given geog...

Report: 1.5M LTE base stations ship by 2015

September 3, 2011

Carriers will deploy 1.5 million LTE base stations by 2015 with Ericsson the leading supplier and Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei battling for second place, according to In-Stat.View the full article HERE.

Price of 4G LTE devices will drop dramatically next year

September 2, 2011

The cost of 4G LTE-enabled devices, including smartphones and tablets, will drop significantly in the second half of 2012, according to a Digitimes report. In the quest to provide faster data speeds, mobile carriers in the U.S. and around the world are...

Researchers aim for energy-harvesting CPUs

September 1, 2011

A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University was awarded two grants to create powerful, energy-efficient computer processors that can run an embedded system without requiring battery power. View the full article HERE.

First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer

September 1, 2011

holy_calamity writes "The first computers with a von Neumann architecture, where a processor has access to RAM, appeared in the 1940s. Now the first quantum computing system with a von Neumann design has been made, at University of California Santa Bar...

LinkedIn Takes A Deep Data Dive On Startup Founder Profiles

September 1, 2011

LinkedIn has taken a number of deep data dives on the profile information of its 120 million members to highlight trends. The company has compared men and women networkers, professional names and more. Today, the company has focused on examining the p...