The semiconductor market is starting to recover, with smartphone silicon a key driver of growth. According to IDC's Semiconductor Applications Forecaster, sales of chips for 4G smartphones will increase 140% in 2013, while overall semiconductor revenues will increase almost 5%.
Qualcomm, Broadcom and Nvidia...
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 smartphones shipped in the third quarter went to China, according to IDC, and of...
While designers in Silicon Valley and Helsinki may spend months refining the fit and finish of a new smartphone, Chinese manufacturers are taking mobile devices from concept to consumer in a fraction of that time. One way to speed the process is to buy...
Sales of chipsets that enable connectivity for mobile devices are expected to surge in the months ahead, and this is seen as an area of opportunity for smaller players. The biggest part of the mobile semiconductor space is the market for platforms that process...
Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF) continue to dominate the global semiconductor market, but Qualcomm (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (BCOM) and nVidia (NVDA) are coming on strong, thanks in large part to the success of their chips for wireless devices.
Qualcomm remains the...
Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom's Wi-Fi initiatives. While this was clearly one of the event’s top stories, McGregor’s comments about hiring and investing caught our attention as well.
"Last year...
Huawei recently announced that it will award OEM contracts totaling $6 billion to Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago, three California-based leading communications technology companies.
Broadcom Corp., a semiconductor solutions provider for wired and wireless communications, introduced its first family of 802.11ac (5G Wi-Fi) chips designed for a broad variety of product segments.
As the amount of data moving over wireless networks grows, so does the demand for the chips that generate and process that data. Strategy Analytics estimates that sales of smartphone applications processors surged to $2.2 billion in the third quarter, up 30% from the...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) introduced a network processor that improves performance four times above the fastest Internet Protocol networks available today. The company's FP3 processor can handle 70,000 simultaneous high-definition video streams on a single chip, making it suited for fourth-generation networks and for mobile...
The fascinating thing about the ARM partnership and ecosystem is the “unholy alliance” of competitors within it, according to the firm's founder and president Tudor Brown who believes ARM licencees will give Intel a run for its money in both the computing and mobile...
Cellular baseband market revenue reached $3.5 billion during the first quarter of 2011, with Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp. leading the way, according to market research outfit Strategy Analytics.The market as a whole saw healthy 20% year-over-year growth, though between vendors there were noticeable...
As predicted by RCR Wireless News at the Mobile World Congress event earlier this year in Barcelona, Spain, mobile processor maker Nvidia Corp. said it will acquire 3G/4G baseband chip maker Icera Inc.The news is significant, because despite Nvidia's success over the past...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Forget about chutzpah … the tech sector in Israel has two advantages – a skilled...
Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
Apple is hiring up an army of legal beagles to help it in its fight against other smart phone makers, as the giants of the mobile space begin to slug it out in the International Trade Commission’s courts.
ZTE Corp. signed framework agreements to purchase semiconductor components from five U.S. technology vendors. The deals are valued at $3 billion. The three-year purchase agreements are with Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, Altera Corp. and Broadcom Corp.Bharti Airtel announced a strategic partnership...
Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), said it plans to acquire Percello Ltd., which develops system-on-a-chip femtocell solutions, for about $86 million, giving Broadcom a play in the small-cell sector, which is expected to see increased traction as wireless operators bring their networks closer to end users...
Broadcom announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Beceem Communications, which provides 4G wireless platform solutions. The deal is valued at $315 million.Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc. said it acquired iSkoot Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based company that focuses on mobilizing Internet...
WiMAX technology may not exactly be the buzz word of the quarter, but Broadcom Corp. doesn’t like to kick a good chip when it’s down and has made a beeline for private fabless WiMax chip startup Beceem Communications Inc., bidding $316 million to buy...
Driven by an insatiable consumer demand for anything “i” related, and apparently overlooking some slight design flaws, Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it managed to sell more than 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices through its first three days of availability, becoming the “most successful product...
