Connecting everything: news bytes for 11/7/16
1. Samsung plans to add voice-activated artificial intelligence to wearables and home appliances. The world's largest smartphone maker is also a major manufacturer of TV sets, washing machines, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners, as well as of course its Gear...
Cat M1 will allow operators to expand cellular-based IoT capabilities
Swedish vendor Ericsson and U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm successfully executed network and device testing of data communications on Cat M1 for Australian operator Telstra.
The demo, which took place at Ericsson headquarters in Sweden, used the MDM9206...
Ruckus Wireless is back in play thanks to another wireless technology merger. Broadcom Limited is looking to acquire Brocade Communications for $5.9 billion, with plans to divest Ruckus, which Brocade purchased for $1.2 billion this spring.
Broadcom, a California company that designs chips for wireless...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Wearables and wireless have helped Matt Du Puy conquer mountains.
Du Puy, a software engineer at ARM, earlier this year used ARM-powered technology during his summit of Annapurna, the 10th-tallest mountain peak in the world. Du Puy, who has also summited...
Apple on Thursday released a new MacBook Pro design, the first time the model line has seen a refresh in four years. The company has all but killed off its popular MacBook Air line of portable computers, replacing it with the 13-inch version of the...
IoT processors from Intel
Earlier this week at IoT Solutions World Congress, Intel announced the next generation of the Intel Atom processors for "internet of things" applications. The new Intel Atom E3900 series is designed to support the rapid development and the growing complexity of IoT businesses. Intel claims...
Acquisition of NXP will bolster Qualcomm portfolio around autonomous driving and industrial IoT
Pending regulatory and closing machinations, San Diego-based Qualcomm announced today it will pay $39 billion to acquire Dutch semiconductor manufacturer NXP. Qualcomm is a leader in chips for smartphones and other wireless communications...
SANTA CLARA, California – SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son likened the impending boom in "internet of things" devices to the evolutionary period known as the Cambrian explosion: a turning point for life on earth.
"The next big paradigm shift is coming from mobile into the IoT....
The ELAA demo used 2.6 GHz licensed spectrum band and 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum band
Qualcomm and SK Telecom are claiming the first over-the-air demonstration of enhanced licensed assisted access and licensed assisted access that utilizes both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
The demo took place at SK...
5 things to know today...
1. Qualcomm is in talks with NXP Semiconductors about a possible acquisition, according to The Wall Street Journal. A takeover of NXP would likely cost Qualcomm about $30 billion, or approximately a third of its current market capitalization.
NXP, based in the...
Smartphone sales are expected to peak in North America and Europe next year, and then start to decline as the smartphone becomes just one of many connected devices. No one is more aware of this forecast than Qualcomm, the leading supplier of mobile processors...
Apple’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, could represent a major win for chipmaker Intel, according to industry analysis.
Announced last week, the technical specifications for the new devices indicate there are two variants of each device with one set supporting CDMA...
Cloud computing and big data analytics will usher in artificial intelligence era
This week Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to buy San Diego-based Nervana Systems, which specializes in deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique meant to create machine learning that mirrors human thought.
This is the...
Qualcomm will license its chip technology to two of China's biggest smartphone makers, Vivo and Oppo. Oppo is the world's fourth-largest smartphone maker behind Samsung, Apple and Huawei, according to IDC, which ranks Vivo as the world's fifth-largest smartphone maker.
The chipmaker has granted Oppo...
Qualcomm this week reported strong quarterly earnings, and CEO Steve Mollenkopf said the chipmaker is poised to be a leader in "5G."
During an earnings presentation, executives explained that revenue for the third quarter, which ended June 26, amounted to $6.03 billion, beating Wall Street...
Latest Qualcomm release comes amid reported Intel reorg of mobile chip business
Continue to advances its Snapdragon 820 line of mobile chips, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdrago 821, which delivers more processing power and battery efficiency than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 820, which is used...
Verizon strike update
1. Verizon has cancelled medical coverage for the thousands of employees who have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The company told the union last week that the employees' healthcare coverage would stop at the end of April if...
Sequans claims LTE Cat-1 products are first to be certified for VoLTE support, look to bolster Verizon IoT strategy
Verizon Wireless continues to find value in its chipset partnership with Sequans Communications, with the carrier recently certifying the chipmaker’s Calliope LTE Cat-1 product to support...
Is Huawei the government's next target?
The U.S. Commerce Department made an unusual move, temporarily reversing its decision to deny export licenses to American companies that sell products to ZTE. Today, the Chinese company said it obtained "interim relief" from the sanctions and it expects...
Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom are suppliers, Oclaro falls 15%
U.S. chipmakers will feel the sting of the U.S. government's decision to restrict technology exports to China's ZTE. Qualcomm and Intel are both suppliers to ZTE, as is Singapore's Broadcom. (Broadcom is now part of Avago,...
Verizon chip partner first to announce lower cost Cat-M solution for IoT
LTE is typically marketed as a high-speed, high-bandwidth technology, but not everyone sees it that way. French chipmaker Sequans has spent the last several years focused on slower, low-power LTE chipsets with the...
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, Sean Kinney shares highlights of a recent trip to Qualcomm headquarters in La Jolla, California.
Qualcomm engineers demonstrated solutions that will be unveiled during Mobile World Congress, Feb. 22-25, in Barcelona, Spain.
The first demonstration shows hardware that supports the...
Netherlands-based Gemalto, a major SIM card manufacturer and digital security firm, this week received certification of its Cinterio Cat 1 LTE M2M module from Verizon, which deems the Internet of Things optimized module carrier grade.
Category 1, a standardized designation defining downlink threshold of up...
According to a report by Bloomberg, Google, which buys its data center server chips from Intel, could take that highly lucrative business to competitor Qualcomm if that company's chips meet performance standards.
Citing "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg reports the search giant "is planning to...
