LTE broadcast
The race to supply chipsets for Verizon's LTE Multicast demo at last weekend's Indy 500 was won by Qualcomm and Sequans. Qualcomm made the Multicast-capable chips inside the Galaxy 3 smartphones used to watch the race in real-time from multiple angles, while Sequans...
Intel's new CMO: from razors to chips
Intel has a very strong history of promoting from within, but the chip giant has looked beyond its Santa Clara, Calif., campus for its new chief marketing officer. Steve Fund comes most recently from Staples, where he led...
Altera FPGA solution speeds up test and measurement
Altera (ALTR) says its Stratix 10 FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) and SoCs are delivering 2X core performance gain in their designs compared to previous generation high-performance programmable devices. Built on Intel’s 14 nanometer Tri-Gate process, the chips...
Aricent is taking advantage of an Intel reference design in rolling out software-defined network and network functions virtualization software that runs on the chip maker’s Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.
Aricent explained that the design, which is now available for trials, is designed to...
Sequans wins contracts for LTE-only modems
LTE-only modems are gaining traction on both sides of the Pacific, with China Telecom announcing today that its upcoming LTE launch will include devices powered by Sequans' single-mode TD-LTE CPE units. The devices will be made by Chinese manufacturers...
Five major players in telecom and industry are joining forces to accelerate interoperability in the development of the Internet of Things through industrial Internet applications.
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have formed the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which is an open membership, not-for-profit group...
Several mobile and wireless companies have made this year's list of the world's most ethical companies, chosen by Ethisphere. Companies are ranked based on their internal ethics and compliance programs, their corporate citizenship and responsibility, and accepted norms of ethical conduct within the company....
Extending mobile connectivity beyond smartphones and tablets is a key goal for companies across the wireless ecosystem, and this spring it appears that wearables may temporarily steal the spotlight from the connected car. Google, Samsung, Motorola, and LG have all announced new wearable technologies...
Intel's momentum in mobile hits a roadblock
Consumers are not the only ones losing out if reports that Google and Microsoft are killing the Transformer Book Duet are true. Intel championed the Asustek device, which was set to define a new device category of hybrid...
The giants of the personal computer world are a force to be reckoned with at this week's MWC 2014 event, and their agendas are strikingly similar. Intel, Dell and Hewlett-Packard all announced new initiatives this week related to network function virtualization.
Intel is working with...
Telecom Software Press Releases
AT&T introduces user-defined network cloud
Alcatel-Lucent partners with Intel for cloud solutions
Telefonica to use Alcatel-Lucent's CloubBand NFV platform
Ericsson also partners with Telefonica for NFV
Dell expands collaboration with RedHat for OpenStack NFV
HP launches OpenNFV
Cisco quantum virtualized packet core solution passes portability testing with...
Broadcom targets low-cost LTE smartphone market
Carriers and device makers are increasingly focused on low-cost smartphones, and chipmakers are ready to give them what they want. Today Broadcom unveiled two new mobile platforms aimed at the sub-$300 LTE smartphone market. The solution set features a...
Verizon Communications is diving deeper into content delivery with the purchase of Intel Media for an undisclosed amount. Intel Media has been working on set-top box technology and cloud-based content delivery, and initially planned to market products and services under the OnCue brand. But...
Intel has put its $5 billion investment in an Arizona chip plant on hold, but says it has nonetheless hired more than 1,000 new people to work at the Chandler facility. The "Fab 42" plant, as it was called, was set to start producing...
CES chip news this year included a number of new products that target devices beyond smartphones, tablets and PCs. Chipmakers foresee a world in which more of the devices we use every day will be connected to mobile networks.
Not content to dominate the smartphone...
Curved screens, connected cars, and wearable tech are three of the biggest trends so far this year at CES.
Ahead of the curve
Since the human face is curved, why shouldn't a smartphone follow that shape? That's the apparent thinking behind LG's G Flex, which...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Intel is buying the wireless assets of small cell expert Mindspeed, which agreed last month to be acquired by MACOM. Mindspeed said at that time that it would find a buyer for its wireless assets.
Mindspeed, which bought Picochip last year, brings to Intel...
Samsung may be outsourcing some of Apple's chip fabrication to GlobalFoundries. An Albany newspaper is reporting that GlobalFoundries will start making iPhone and iPad processors at its foundry in Malta, New York. A Samsung team is reportedly visiting the factory to share Apple's chip...
Intel wants to be inside your mobile device in more ways than one. Its Atom processors have already made into several new tablets, and now the chip giant has launched a multimode LTE modem as well. The XMM 7160 is a 2G/3G/LTE, multi-band solution...
BlackBerry's $4.7 billion dollar deal with Fairfax Financial may be in jeopardy, with BlackBerry stock trading below Fairfax's $9-per-share offer price. Today Bloomberg is reporting that the troubled Canadian smartphone maker is talking to other suitors, and that each of these potential buyers only...
AT&T, Cisco and Intel are all part of a broad new IoT partnership announced today by GE. IoT, or the Internet of Things, refers to the emerging capability to connect machines and devices to the Internet. This enables equipment to be remotely controlled by...
Qualcomm gets Lenovo's Vibe
Qualcomm has scored a victory with Lenovo, landing the processor in the new Vibe Z smartphone and replacing Intel, which supplied the processor for the Vibe Z's predecessor. The Vibe Z, also called the K910, is powered by Qualcomm's ARM-based quad-core...
Intel has generated a lot of publicity for its mobile processors of late, but mobile connectivity chipsets are also a major focus for the world's largest chipmaker. The company says its communications systems have already shipped inside more than a billion mobile phones. It...
