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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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

5 things to know today …  1. Sprint parent Softbank is ready to invest billions in India, according to Chairman Masayoshi Son. Softbank’s investment has been a critical support for …

HetNet Happenings Episode 45 looks at chipsets with Altair Semiconductor, Imagination Technologies and Nvidia The 2016 CES event placed a huge emphasis on the “Internet of Things” and how IoT …

CES 2016 Internet of Things (IoT) musings from the IoT Innovation gang. Listen in as Sean Kinney, Managing Editor – RCR Wireless News; Chris Hare, CEO – nTeTe; and Steve Brumer, …

With the emergence of the “Internet of Things” ecosystem, single-mode LTE chips have gained momentum beyond broadband connectivity. Altair Semiconductor has been focusing on single-mode LTE chips for more than a …

Qualcomm is becoming a major customer of Samsung, tapping the Korean conglomerate to produce its next-generation Snapdragon processors for smartphones. Samsung replaces Taiwan’s TSMC, Qualcomm’s longtime manufacturing partner. The move …

Two multi-billion deals are set to impact the wireless industry as chipmakers become increasingly focused on the “Internet of Things.” Qualcomm plans to invest up to $3 billion in a …

Orange, Ericsson, Sequans, LoRa and publicly traded Silver Spring Networks launch of Starfish makes waves in the “Internet of Things” space this week on IoT Innovation, sponsored by Anritsu and Telecomcareers. IoT …

Qualcomm will license cellular patents to Chinese smartphone juggernaut Xiaomi, the rising star that has quintupled its worldwide market share during the last three years. The San Diego chipmaker’s agreement …

New chip supports seamless handoff between LTE, LTE-U and Wi-Fi networks NEW YORK – Qualcomm is looking to make a splash with its new Snapdragon 820 processor, a chipset that …

The Brazilian mobile landscape is undergoing a transformation with the potential for heightened competition in the coming years. Driving the market shift is the reduction of a termination rate imposed by …

1. Nokia appears to have cleared the last major hurdle in its $17.6 billion purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. Today, China’s Ministry of Commerce gave conditional approval to the merger, which has …

Qualcomm debuted its latest mobile chip, the Snapdragon 820, which supports Cat 12 LTE downlink and Cat 13 LTE uplink, as well as somewhat controversial LTE-Unlicensed technology. “The Snapdragon 820 …