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

November 2011

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GPU’s versus Multicore CPU’s

November 23, 2011

Intel talks about why they believe multicore general purpose processors scale better than GPU’s. Watch video here

Up To 30 Gbps: New Chip Enables Record-Breaking Wireless Data Transmission Speed

November 22, 2011

TechCrunch reports Japanese electronic parts maker Rohm yesterday announced [JP] it has developed a chip that reached a wireless data transmission speed of 1.5 gigabits per second in experiments, the highest level ever. And according to the company, even 30Gbps will be possible in the future. The semi conductor device uses terahertz waves for data transmission.

Qualcomm to cover all tiers of smartphones and tablets with new Snapdragon processors

November 20, 2011

Android Guys report Qualcomm announced their new next-gen Snapdragon S4 mobile processors today along with enhancements to their S1 line. Qualcomm aims to enhance user experience and improve battery life across all tiers of smartphones and tablets with their faster, more efficient processors. Qualcomm’s S4 processors will feature their next-gen Krait CPU which will provide next-gen [...]

TI’s multicore DSPs sink to new power lows

November 20, 2011

EE Times reports TI said its C66x KeyStone-based multicore DSPs were its highest performing yet, at 16 GFLOPs/W, while also being fairly straightforward to program, making them well suited to researchers working in oil and gas exploration, financial modeling and molecular dynamics.

The Global Smartphone Market Landscape

November 20, 2011

Asymco reports the smartphone market has now reached over 30% of shipments. Non-smart devices are at 69% of total. The individual phone platform shares are as follows: Android (and Android-like): 17.6% iOS (iPhone only) 4.4% Nokia Symbian: 4.3% BlackBerry: 2.76% Bada: 1% Windows Phone 0.5%

Reissued patent could give Apple control of location-based services

November 20, 2011

Apple Insider reports Apple has been granted a location services patent that is so basic it could possibly cover any existing location-based system, giving the iPhone maker a powerful weapon in its already formidable intellectual property arsenal. It was revealed that the US Patent and Trademark Office issued Apple a patent on Tuesday that pre-dates current [...]

White Space Trial Completed

November 9, 2011

Daily Wireless reports that the 45 day trial started on September 19th and was successfully completed on November 2nd. Spectrum Bridge formally filed a Summary Report of the TVWS database trial which can be found here on the FCC’s electronic filing system. With the trial completed, the FCC could award certification very quickly, in theory allowing [...]

‘World’s smallest’ SDR radio runs Linux

November 9, 2011

Epiq Solutions announced what it claims is the world’s smallest commercially available software defined radio (SDR). The 4.6 x 2.2 x 0.9-inch, four-ounce Matchstiq incorporates a broadband (28MHz) RF transceiver supporting 300MHz to 3.8GHz frequencies, an onboard GPS receiver, and an Iveia Atlas-I-LPe module integrating a Texas Instruments DM3730 processor and a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA.

TI talks future-proofing for Omap

November 9, 2011

EE Times reports that Tomorrow’s mobile application processor will not only be capable of rendering holographic displays, high-definition augmented reality, real-time voice translation, natural speech interaction and multi-view synthesis, but may also be able to handle neuro, fuzzy-based and even humanistic intelligence according, to Texas Instruments Inc.

Sprint’s LTE Rollout Detailed

November 9, 2011

Daily Wireless provides this interview taped by Converged Digest at 4G World in Chicago, Sprint’s VP of Network Development and Engineering, Iyad Tarazi, discusses the move to LTE and the newly announced agreement with Clearwire. Sprint and Clearwire will work together to incorporate LTE-Advanced on the 2.6 GHz band, using Time Division multiplex. On Sprint’s 1.9 [...]

AMD pins exascale vision on Fusion APUs

November 9, 2011

Chuck Moore, CTO in the chip maker’s Technology Group, did the talking about exascale, or the desire to create machines that can deliver more than 1,000 petaflops of number-crunching performance. Moore was one of the lead architects of the “Bulldozer” core used in the forthcoming Opteron processors, as well as for the Fusion hybrid CPU-GPU [...]