Amazon offers tools to help deploy MCU-based connected devices
NXP Semiconductors, a Dutch global semiconductor manufacturer, introduced the LPC54018 MCU-based IoT module with support for the recently launched Amazon FreeRTOS on Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing developers with universal connections to AWS.
The cost and complexity...
Marvell makes offer for telecom chip maker Cavium
The semiconductor market continues to consolidate, with Marvell Technology Group making a $6 billion bid for chipmaker Cavium. The transaction has been approved by the boards of both companies, with Cavium shareholders to receive $40 per share...
After taking a week to review Broadcom's unsolicited $130 billion buy-out offer, the Qualcomm Board of Directors today announced it has "unanimously rejected" the bid.
Qualcomm Incorporated Executive Chairman and Chairman of the company's board Paul Jacobs , noting the company won't further comment on...
Qualcomm is reviewing the "unsolicited" offer
Other than to say it has received Broadcom's "unsolicited" 12-figure acquisition offer, and will review with its financial and legal advisors, "Qualcomm will have no further comment until its board of directors has completed its review."
Broadcom is a silicon...
Arm fellow speaks about the limits the semiconductor industry is facing
Santa Clara, Cali. – Advances in silicon processing technologies has brought the semiconductor industry into a transitional, intermediate state of limbo. That is at least the view of Arm Fellow Greg Yeric who gave a...
The operator plans a trial during the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang
HONG KONG--South Korean mobile carrier KT confirmed plans to launch commercial 5G services in 2019, the company’s SVP of network strategy, YongGyoo Lee, said during a keynote presentation at Qualcomm’s 4G/5G Summit.
The executive...
Qualcomm is prepping to support 600 MHz as the spectrum repack continues
HONG KONG--Qualcomm Technologies announced new additions to the RF front-end (RFFE) portfolio that is designed to provide comprehensive support for devices operating in the 600 MHz spectrum.
The announcement was made during the...
Qualcomm pushing to support rapid commercialization of 5G NR in 2019
HONG KONG--Qualcomm Technologies announced it has successfully achieved a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chipset for mobile devices. The 3GPP is working to standardize 5G New Radio in mid-2018.
The San Diego, Calif.-based...
New RF SOC to support 5G, DOCSIS 3.1, test applications
Xilinx aims to support the ongoing evolution across both wired and wireless networks with its new radio frequency system-on-chip release. The company said it is is already shipping samples to customers who are working on...
LAA demonstration, which builds on field tests, is set for Mobile World Congress Americas
Earlier this year AT&T worked with infrastructure vendor Ericsson on a field trial of License Assisted Access (LAA), which aggregates licensed and unlicensed spectrum to create a wider data channel, which,...
The non-standalone variant of the 5G New Radio standard is set for finalization in December, an accelerated timeline agreed to earlier this year and meant to speed delivery of commercial 5G-related services like home broadband and television following a fixed wireless access deployment model....
The San Diego, Calif.-area is home to numerous nonprofits engaged in a wide range of charitable activities. But Mission Edge is different; the organization, itself a nonprofit, provides professional services like accounting, payroll, OSHA compliance and human resources to other nonprofits so they can...
Gigabit LTE test used Qualcomm chipset, Sony Xperia device
The list of two dozen-plus global operators testing gigabit LTE services has a new entrant in Russian carrier MegaFon, which said it achieved downlink throughput of 979 Mbps in a test this week. MegaFon used a...
The six devices that support gigabit LTE are built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 platform and X16 modem
More than two dozen carriers around the world, as well as all four major U.S. mobile carriers, are working to deploy gigabit LTE technologies. While network testing has...
Take a look at carrier trials that use LAA to push toward the theoretical limit of gigabit LTE
As LTE networks continue to evolve toward 5G, the vital role of spectrum in improving end-user throughput is more apparent than ever. Simply put, most carriers don't...
Verizon used four-channel carrier aggregation, including unlicensed spectrum, to approach theoretical limit of gigabit LTE
Gigabit LTE is a hot topic, but, in live network deployments, peak speeds often top out in the 100 Mbps-range. But, based on the results of a "commercial network deployment"...
4x4 MIMO + carrier aggregation + 256 QAM = gigabit LTE
In what Peter Carson, senior director of marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, dubbed an international "speed race" (pun intended?), all four major U.S. operators, as well as numerous international carriers, are deploying gigabit LTE networks.
Off the...
Company is on track to replace Intel as world's largest chipmaker
The world's leading smartphone vendor had a very strong second quarter, but smartphones were not the biggest contributor to Samsung's bottom line. Operating profit for Samsung's semiconductor business was almost double that at its...
The world's leading designer of chipsets for wireless devices has updated its portfolio with the launch of two new integrated chipsets: the Snapdragon 630 and Snapdragon 660. The new chips can process faster, charge faster and stay charged for longer than their predecessors. Both...
Apple told Imagination Technologies it will no longer need the British company's intellectual property to create graphics processors, wiping out more than two-thirds of the chipmaker's market value overnight.
"Apple has asserted that it has been working on a separate, independent graphics design in order...
Verizon Wireless activated its Category M1 LTE network, making it the first U.S. carrier to launch a nationwide LTE network dedicated to the internet of things. The carrier said it will offer IoT data plans for as little as $2 per month per device,...
Smartphones are an extreme case of a high-volume market that justifies some incredibly complex engineering to pack so much into a small size. Some smartphones include as many as eight processor cores today ... making the old comparisons to the Apollo spacecraft laughable.
Today’s smartphones...
As the smartphone market matures, the companies that make chips for wireless devices are targeting larger, faster mobile machines. The automotive semiconductor market is worth $24 billion, according to consulting firm McKinsey, and by 2025 more than $7 billion worth of semiconductors will be...
Enabling the internet of things
Many of the applications and devices set to drive future sales of wireless hardware have not yet been invented and no one knows this better than semiconductor companies. Wireless chip designers Qualcomm, Gemalto and Intel have created internet of things...
