With just a simple search of job boards and postings, you can see that product test engineers are in high demand.
In this edition of "Gigs", RCRtv takes a look at a day in the life of a product test engineer at Silicon Labs and...
Xiaomi has made it crystal clear that it's ready to take on the smartphone establishment. The Chinese devicemaker launched a new smartphone that shares its name with Samsung's popular Note, and is marketing it as a direct competitor to the iPhone 6 Plus.
Xiaomi Chairman...
With the changing landscape of the wireless industry, job descriptions don't often stay the same for long. RCRtv is looking into different jobs throughout the industry to see what the hot jobs are and what it is like to do them.
With this installment of...
Drive PX mimics brain with deep learning
LAS VEGAS – Connected car technology was the talk of CES 2015 and imaging giant Nvidia, debuting its new Tegra X1 mobile processor, demonstrated a digital cockpit and infotainment platform, Drive CX, along with the highly advanced Drive...
Fiber-to-the-home is part of AT&T and Verizon Communications' plan to compete with cable, but the cable companies are defending their turf with new standards that are set to speed-up data delivery. Data over cable service interface specification is migrating to a new standard, DOCSIS...
LAS VEGAS – As mobile operators look to Wi-Fi to support voice calls, data offload and even LTE, the makers of Wi-Fi chipsets are racing to deliver more speed and throughput in routers, gateways and end-user devices. Today at CES, Broadcom launched a new portfolio...
Qualcomm has confirmed reports that it is eliminating roughly 600 jobs. The chip giant says that some of those impacted will be offered new opportunities elsewhere at the company. Fewer than half the employees affected are based in the United States.
"Less than 300 will...
Qualcomm is buying England's CSR in an effort to expand its mobile chip business beyond smartphones and tablets. CSR makes Bluetooth and audio processing chips, and Qualcomm says it is making the purchase to add products, channels and customers in the "Internet of Everything"...
Two corporate earnings reports are indicating softer demand in the mobile and wireless sector. Juniper said late yesterday that third quarter earnings will come in below expectations, and blamed weaker orders from service providers.
"The release identified weakness from service providers, particularly in the U.S....
IoT gateways are of interest to wireless service providers who are looking to the "Internet of Things" for new revenue.
What is an IoT gateway?
An IoT gateway is a device that enables machine-to-machine communication by connecting appliances in the home, workplace or smart city to...
Intel will invest roughly $1.5 billion in a holding company that will own Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics. The California chip giant will own about 20% of the company, a joint venture with China's Tsinghua Unigroup. Tsinghua Unigroup is a state-owned limited liability corporation...
The news continues to flow with new developments related to the "Internet of Things" and connected car spaces. For now we’ll consider a car a "thing." Highlighting a few of the trends over the last week’s news, there are new options to allow more...
Things move. Sounds like a simple statement that doesn’t surprise anyone. But as you start to think about supporting "Internet of Things" and connected cars the discussion becomes much more complex. In the United States it’s not as difficult as there aren’t as many...
The capabilities of upcoming smartphones and tablets can often be seen in the chipsets that are launching now.
Mobile chip update
Superfast Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are strong suits for chipmaker Broadcom, and now the company says it has the industry’s most powerful Wi-Fi chip for...
Intel has struggled to find its footing with mobile processors, but the chip giant is determined to make headway in the mobile connectivity market. Its modem family has a new member in the XMM6255, which Intel calls the world's smallest standalone 3G modem. Rather...
With no buyer in sight for its cellular baseband unit, Broadcom (BRCM) has decided to wind down the business and lay off 2,500 people. The company made the announcement during its third quarter earnings call yesterday, noting that 250 sales and administrative employees have...
Qualcomm got a lot of attention at Small Cells World Summit 2014 with its talk about "inside out" connectivity enabled by small cells. The mobile chip giant wants operators to consider super powerful indoor small cells as a way to connect entire neighborhoods. Indoor...
Broadcom's decision to exit the cellular baseband business means the company is giving up on the opportunity to ingegrate cellular modems with its highty successful connectivity chipsets for mobile devices.
Broadcom (BRCM) is giving up on its cellular baseband business. Baseband chips have helped catapult...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Broadcom launched a new chipset series this week with software-defined networking and network functions virtualization in mind.
According to the company, the XLP500 series has a "quad-issue, quad-threaded superscalar architecture with out-of-order execution" as well as supporting Broadcom's Open NFV platform and interoperability with its switch series,
The...
By staying on top of current and emerging trends, businesses can avoid getting blindsided by an unforeseen change in the market. Here's what's happening in mobile chip development news this week.
Digital signal processing is the key technology that enables connection from humans (and machines) to the Internet, whether by wire or wireless. Furthermore, there is no digital multimedia without DSP technology.
If chips are the brains inside mobile devices, the software embedded in those chips is like neurons firing faster than thought. “The chip is managed by software,” said Jonathan Langley, who directs IT sales and recruiting at telecom talent search firm Kineticom. Langley works...
LTE has been in commercial service for a while, which makes it easy to overlook the fact that it’s still a relatively new technology for most device original equipment manufacturers.
