Japanese operator Softbank will deploy IoT networks using multiple LPWAN technologies, starting with LoRaWAN.
Low power wide area network (LPWAN) technology LoRaWAN for IoT networks continues to gain ground as yet another carrier, Japanese Softbank, announced plans to deploy the technology. LoRaWAN supporters already include...
Verizon and Facebook catch net neutrality heat ... 5 things to know today
1. Verizon Wireless is under fire for zero rating its Go90 mobile video service. Go90 is a free video streaming app available to customers of any mobile carrier. It offers access to...
HetNet Happenings Episode 45 looks at chipsets with Altair Semiconductor, Imagination Technologies and Nvidia
The 2016 CES event placed a huge emphasis on the "Internet of Things" and how IoT technology is poised to revolutionize consumer, enterprise and industrial markets.
But the problem with CES (because...
Drive PX2 platform from Nvidia showcased at CES 2016
Autonomous driving, while still many years away from being viable, let alone commonplace, is becoming incrementally more viable through advances in processing power. This was a major point of emphasis for auto and chipmakers during the...
LAS VEGAS — At a press event to kick off this year's CES event, Nvidia unveiled a new artificial intelligence technology for connected cars, designed to help the autonomous vehicles better sense the world around them.
According to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, Drive PX 2Â ...
IoT was a clear theme in the announcements coming from major chipmakers ahead of this week's CES 2016 event. Connected cars, connected home appliances and sensors to connect virtually everything else are all shaping up as major trends across the "Internet of Things" space...
A slowdown in the Chinese economy could have a big impact on some wireless companies, particularly chipmakers. Goldman Sachs analyst David Kostin listed 20 U.S. companies that he said are the most exposed to China.
Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, Nvidia and Texas Instruments all made the...
Chipmaker’s Drive PX computer being used by manufacturers like Aston Martin, Rolls Royce
Nvidia previewed its self-driving vehicle platform, Drive PX, at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year and began shipping units earlier this month to manufacturers including Aston Martin, Tesla, Rolls Royce and...
Apple under pressure
Apple's iTunes may face some legal challenges. The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly trying to find out whether iTunes is using its marketplace muscle to get songs into its paid services instead of free-streaming services. Apple of course is working on its...
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...
Tegra K1 debuts in tablets
The Tegra K1 made headlines with its 192 cores when Nvidia launched the chip, and now the processor is showing up in real products. China's Xioami was the first to launch at Tegra K1 powered tablet, and now U.S. consumers...
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...
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.
Verizon Wireless taps Altair Semiconductor: Verizon Wireless' first carrier-branded tablet will use an LTE-only modem from Altair to connect to the carrier's network. Altair's FourGee-3100/6202 chipset is a single-mode LTE chipset, meaning that Verizon Wireless' Ellipsis 7 tablet will only connect to the carrier's...
Broadcom extends "5G" Wi-Fi portfolio to home entertainment market
Broadcom (BRCM) launched a new "5G" Wi-Fi chipset aimed at the tablet, PC, TV, set-top box and home router market. The new line of 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi solutions support 866 megabit per second wireless local area...
Apple is finally ending its relationship with Samsung Semiconductor, according to a report in The Korea Times. For years Apple's devices have used mobile processors made by Samsung, and some say the expertise Samsung gained while making chips for Apple helped it create the...
Nvidia says the future of mobile lines up perfectly with its core strength in graphics processors. More than half of all mobile data traffic is now video, according to Cisco, and that percent is expected to increase as smart devices and connections become faster...
With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews. And companies from across the mobile ecosystem are busy recruiting.
"We hire a lot of people right out of college,"...
The LTE modem market is about to get a bit more crowded. Broadcom (BRCM) and Nvidia (NVDA) have both announced LTE modem solutions to compete with chip giant Qualcomm (QCOM), which has dominated the market so far.
Both solutions are significantly smaller that Qualcomm's...
Earnings news, product announcements and the latest from FirstNet. RCR Wireless brings you up to date on the week's news.
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Nvidia (NVDA), known for high-performance graphics processors that enhance the gaming experience, said fourth-quarter net income rose 50% year-on-year to $174 million. Revenue was $1.1 billion, and analysts were expecting another billion-dollar-plus quarter going forward, but Nvidia said that was too optimistic. Apparently still...
Nvidia is calling its Tegra 4 chipset the world's fastest mobile processor, and the company was excited enough by the product to build a device to show it off. Project Shield is a wireless gaming device that plays both Android and PC games. ...
Nvidia (NVDA) is kicking off its week at the Consumer Electronics Show with a claim that it has the world's fastest mobile processor. The Tegra 4 combines a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15CPU with a 72 core GPU. Nvidia says the 72 custom graphics processing cores...
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...
