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

May 2011

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ARM expects to control 50% of mobile chip market by 2015

May 30, 2011

Led by devices like the iPhone and iPad, ARM Holdings expects its reference chip designs to be found in 50 percent of mobile devices sold by the year 2015.

Sequans, Ericsson in collaboration on LTE

May 17, 2011

Sequans Communications and Ericsson are now collaborating to develop and mature TD-LTE technology for the global marketplace.

ZTE wins the most new wireless contracts in Q4 2010, says report

May 11, 2011

The ranking is said to confirm the rapid growth of SDR (Software Definition Radio) base station shipment recently announced by ZTE. According to publicly released data, the total shipment of ZTE's SDR base stations exceeded 700000 units in 2010, .....

Tilera preps 100-core chips for network gear

May 10, 2011

Massively multicore server chips loom Upstart multicore chip maker Tilera is using the Interop networking trade show as the coming out party for its long-awaited Tile-Gx series of processors, which top out at 100 cores on a single die.…

Nvidia snags fast-rising mobile chip maker

May 10, 2011

Icera's software-happy modems too tasty to resist Nvidia has made yet another move that proves it's dead serious about the mobile market, announcing plans to fork over $367m to acquire baseband-processor developer Icera of Bristol in the UK.…Free Web...

Samsung, Apple knock Nokia off top handset spots

May 6, 2011

King dethroned in European markets Nokia has been knocked off the top spot as Europe's best-selling phone maker by Samsung, and in the smartphone arena by Apple.…

Startup aims many-core chip at smartphones

May 4, 2011

Startup Adapteva aims to license its many-core floating-point array to a mobile chip vendor, targeting emerging smartphone apps.

16 Million Mobile LTE Subscribers by Year’s End

May 3, 2011

LTE is starting to gain critical momentum as we move through 2Q-2011. Currently 12 countries have commercial LTE services, and according to ABI Research VP of Forecasting Jake Saunders, “ABI Research projects that by the end of the year there will be...

Analyst comments on 11 vendors’ LTE chips

May 2, 2011

Will Strauss, president and principal analyst with Forward Concepts Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) has listed 11 LTE chip developers after Apple's interim CEO Tim Cook said that LTE chips involve too many "compromises in design."