TSMC captured nearly 70% share of the global chipset market share, according to Counterpoint
According Counterpoint’s latest Foundry and Chipset Tracker, several factors contributed to a decline of 5% YoY in Q1 2022 in the global smartphone chipset (SoC/AP+Baseband) shipments, including weaker demand in China...
The new modules also feature enhanced 5G/Wi-Fi coexistence capabilities
Qualcomm has announced its third-generation of Wi-Fi Front End Modules (FEM), which are integrated RF components that help amplify and route signals between the Wi-Fi System on Chip (SoC) and the antenna. The latest generation...
The global microchip shortage has had a serious impact on the automotive industry over the last two years, and the pandemic's effect on supply chains have turned the scarcity of inventory into a bigger challenge than many expected. While there’s no definite timeline, analysts...
Cristiano Amon calls out Qualcomm belief that AR glasses “have the potential to be the next computing platform”
Qualcomm is and has been on a mission to leverage its core expertise in technologies that power mobile handsets to grow market share in spaces like computing,...
GlobalFoundries manufactures silicon-germanium chips for Motorola’s public safety, professional and commercial radios
To safeguard the supply of chip solutions needed for its radios, Motorola Solutions has entered a long-term agreement with GlobalFoundries (GF), which manufactures silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips for Motorola’s public safety, professional and commercial...
CEO: Plan to grow market to $700 billion "remains on track, and I'm very excited for the future of Qualcomm"
Last year Qualcomm laid out a plan to leverage its core expertise well beyond the handset market it's best known for to grow share...
Huawei is diversifying its portfolio as well as increasing R&D spending and focusing on operational efficiency, given the growing challenges faced by the vendor this year, which are even higher compared to 2021, rotating chairman Ken Hu said in his keynote presentation at the...
Qualcomm announced the appointment of Jim Cathey as the new chief commercial officer of Qualcomm Technologies.
Cathey takes the role effectively immediately, and will report directly to Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon.
Cathey has been with Qualcomm since 2006, most recently in the role...
Qualcomm noted that further enhanced massive MIMO was one of the key areas of improvement in Rel-17
According to a report by Ericsson, Rel-17 MIMO enhancements address four areas: Beam management; multiple transmission and reception points (mTRP) for ultra-reliable, low-latency communication (URLLC); mTRP for enhanced...
Intel aims to achieve 100% renewable electricity use across its global operations
Intel Corporation announced plans to further reduce its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and develop more sustainable technology solutions.
In a release, the chip maker said it expects to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas...
According to Broadcom, you can't put the Wi-Fi cart before the Wi-Fi horse
Broadcom has further solidified its early-mover status with its announcement of the sample availability of a complete end-to-end chipset offering for the Wi-Fi 7 ecosystem. Spanning routers, residential gateways, enterprise access points...
An ongoing global semiconductor shortage, caused initially by the COVID-19 pandemic and made more pressing by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has gripped the world
On Monday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez revealed that Spain plans to invest 11 billion euros ($12.4 billion) to develop microchips...
The “digital chassis” redefines the vehicle base framework to include digital components based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors
Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Arriver from SSW Partners, giving the chipmaker access to the software company’s Driver Assistance assets. Automotive has been a huge growth story...
The connected intelligent edge is growth opportunity connectivity, processing, AI and more
First detailed last year at a capital markets event and impactfully contextualized at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm is moving fast on its strategy of expanding addressable market 7-fold to...
Last year Qualcomm rolled out its vision of leveraging a unified technology roadmap to grow its end market well beyond smartphones and grow addressable market 7-fold over the next decade to $700 billion. Now the company is rapidly executing on that plan with across...
5G, Wi-Fi, and connected intelligent edge are key enablers of the metaverse
As the possibilities of the metaverse for consumers and enterprises takes shape, the spotlight is on ensuring foundational technology pieces are in place. With core expertise ranging from connectivity and compute to graphics...
Sub-band full-duplex, Giga MIMO, sub-THz and the march to the Terabit-per-second era
At its campus in Southern California, Qualcomm Technologies’ R&D team demonstrated how advanced Massive MIMO technologies like sub-band full-duplex (SBFD) and Giga-MIMO will continue to drive wide-area 5G adoption, help operators make the...
AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon all expanding 5G FWA to capture consumer and enterprise businesses
Last week during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm announced an update to its 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platforms to include support for Standalone 5G using mmWave frequencies, introduction of its...
Qualcomm said the platform will feature Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems for Fixed Wireless Access
Italian telco Fastweb and Qualcomm Technologies announced plans to commercialize 5G Standalone (SA) millimeter wave (mmWave) on Qualcomm's 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platform Gen 2.
In a statement,...
As it continues to focus on addressable market growth as a function of moving core mobile expertise into high-value adjacencies, Qualcomm dropped a massive amount of news—16 press releases, in fact—as CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The...
The massive MIMO radios will be used in Rakuten Mobile network in Japan and sold globally by Rakuten Symphony
Qualcomm and Rakuten Symphony are confident that they'll crack the code for Open RAN compatible 64T/64R massive MIMO radios that can rival integrated solutions from a...
The European Union has filed a case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for restricting EU high-tech companies from going to a foreign court to protect and use their patents.
In a release, the European Commission noted that China "severely restricts EU companies...
Qualcomm inline accelerator card tapped for Open RAN virtualized distributed units
Along with the gaining traction of commoditized telecom hardware and disaggregated Open RAN architectures, HPE is leaning into the telecom market with the creation of a Communications Technology Group and development of its Open...
The Technavio report anticipates that the automotive antenna module market will grow $525.67 million in the forecasted period
Technavio’s latest automotive antenna module market report anticipates a market growth in this space of $525.67 million from 2020 to 2025, driven mostly by the fact that vehicles are becoming increasingly...
