Chips – Semiconductor

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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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 …

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, …

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.

In the 90s, companies like Nokia and RIM/BlackBerry built their businesses and reputations on their wireless and RF engineering prowess, with thousands of engineers dedicated to designing products that delivered

Qualcomm’s tablet strategy is becoming clearer. The company set up a research and development engineering center in Brazil to develop tablet designs and technologies to sell a near-complete product to …

Chipmakers on both sides of the Pacific are fighting hard for spots inside the millions of smartphones that are being designed, manufactured and sold within China. One of every three …

Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 people and stop designing chips for mobile devices. The Dallas semiconductor giant says more device manufacturers are designing their own chipsets, making the business more challenging for outside suppliers.

Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) reported a deep drop in profits in the second quarter of 2012. The company reported net sales of $1.03 billion and recorded a $34 million …

With Android 4.1 set to launch in the coming months, prices on Android 4.0 phones could be headed lower. And Taiwan’s MediaTek (2454.TW) is ready. The fabless semiconductor company says …

NEW ORLEANS – Clearwire continues it march towards an LTE future, announcing this morning at the CTIA trade show that it had signed a deal with Qualcomm to produce a …

The semiconductor business is all about speed, but the rate at which tablets are changing the market has even some of the most seasoned chipmakers racing to keep pace. Tablets …

Underdog chipmaker Marvell has just unveiled a new single-chip LTE world modem called the PXA1801.