Qualcomm

The capabilities of upcoming smartphones and tablets can often be seen in the chipsets that are launching now. Mobile chip update Superfast Wi-Fi Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are strong suits for …

Mobile Minute: Sprint is not the only company making executive changes this week as Microsoft said yesterday that is has hired Qualcomm’s Peggy Johnson to lead business development. At Qualcomm, …

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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 …

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The quest for scale and intellectual property appear to be motivating chip companies to consolidate, with three transactions announced this week. Qualcomm buys RF specialist Qualcomm has purchased Austin’s Black …

Qualcomm in the hood The mobile chip giant wants to be part of your neighborhood, or your small business if you have one. At Small Cells World Summit 2014 Qualcomm …

Broadcom (BRCM) appears ready to let Qualcomm and its low-cost Asian competitors compete for the baseband market while it focuses on chips for other types of wireless connectivity, such as …

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 …

Verizon Wireless continued testing its LTE Multicast technology, announcing it has been offering the service this month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ahead of this weekend’s Indianapolis 500 event. During …

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What is LTE-Advanced and how it is being implemented today?

Huawei has successfully completed an LTE-A Category 6 connectivity test with download speeds reaching 300 megabits per second. The Chinese infrastructure, device and chip manufacturer worked with Qualcomm, and used …

The controversy over over-the-air testing standards – or lack thereof – for LTE MIMO, as well as cost and complexity, are some of the major issues in OTA testing today. …

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In mobile chip news this week, Qualcomm has unveiled its newest Snapdragon chipset, Broadcom has teamed up with Amazon, and Freescale has agreed to buy Mindspeed’s ARM processor business. Qualcomm …

Freescale has agreed to purchase Mindspeed’s communications processor unit for an undisclosed amount. Mindspeed was acquired by MACOM last year, and at the time the RF and microwave specialist said …

–Mobile Experts expects that the small cell market will reach $10 billion in 2018. Joe Madden, principal analyst at the firm, said that the deployment of 200,000 small cells in …

Wi-Fi connectivity is the first thing many people look for when they enter a hotel, restaurant or airport waiting area. But many Wi-Fi access points are facing the same challenge …

SAN ANTONIO – Sprint VP of technology Ron Marquardt told an audience at CCA Global Expo 2014 that the carrier’s current CDMA network’s voice delivery is comparable to VoLTE (voice-over-LTE) …

Qualcomm, CW Solutions, Samsung, SoftBank and TNCI welcomed new employees this week.