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Apple’s Mobile Share
Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share.
Two great posts from Asymco here and here.
White Space Show Down
Sen. John Kerry urged the Internet community on Tuesday to rally to push Congress to free up more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other new wireless technologies.
Full story at dailywireless.org
North Carolina Officially Launches the First Commercial TV White Spaces Network
Spectrum Bridge Enables Wilmington / New Hanover County and the Wireless Industry to Launch First FCC-Approved Smart City Using TVWS.
Full Story at Market Watch.
Altair chipset finishes LTE Band Class 14 testing
The FourGee-3100/6200 LTE chipset supports both FDD and TDD variants on a single semiconductor and software platform in any 3GPP frequency band between 700 MHz and 2700 MHz. It implements a high-performance MIMO receive architecture and is based on a proprietary software-defined radio processor, offering performance that exceeds conventional communications DSP cores, yet consumes a [...]
Tensilica’s ConnX Baseband Engine DSP Core Successfully Deployed by NXP Semiconductors
NXP to Also Use Tensilica’s ConnX in Global Intelligent Traffic System Field Trials.
Full Story at Market Watch.
LTE report
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reports that there are now 269 LTE-enabled user devices, manufactured by 57 companies. It’s a six-fold jump in six months. The GSMA also noted the number of LTE-enabled tablets has doubled in the past six months.
Full Story at DailyWireless.org
Maxim acquires LTE chip firm
Genasic was founded by Ashok Dhuna who served as CEO. Dhuna was previously vice president of RF engineering at Sequans and prior to that he was chief technology officer and founder of Synad Technologies Ltd., a fabless wireless LAN chipmaker sold to STMicroelectronics in 2003.
Full Story at EE Times.
Recent College Graduate Unemployment Rates
Engineering major with three relevant internships in the engineering field? Ding. Ding. We have a winner. Job.
Full Story at the Washington Post
LightSquared accuses government of ‘rigged’ interference tests
The unanimous conclusion of the group was that the LightSquared planned system did interfere with many GPS receivers, and an analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would also interfere with several aircraft systems.
Read Full Story at The Register
Genachowski Lobbies for Unlicensed White Spaces at CES
said the FCC’s unlicensed spectrum use generates about $30 billion worth of economic value every year.
The FCC hopes to utilize auction off the now freed up television spectrum, which could be worth an estimated $25 billion.
Full Story at Daily Wireless.
It’s going to be a White (Space) winter after all
The FCC has, as expected, granted the first database to Florida-based Spectrum Bridge, who recently completed a set of trials intended to prove the company had the capacity, and the capability, to run such a thing. Those trials didn’t go perfectly, and the FCC expects Spectrum Bridge to address the remaining issues ahead of the [...]
US regulator clears path for ‘super Wi-Fi’
US consumers will have access to a new range of “super Wi-Fi” wireless services next year after the Federal Communications Commission removed the final obstacle to the commercial use of the so-called “white spaces” of unused spectrum between broadcast TV channels.
Full story at ft.com
RIM Claims It Can’t Find an LTE Chipset, Delays BB10 Half a Year
Nomura analyst Stuart Jeffrey in a research note to investors concurred that this could be the end for RIM or at least was a huge hit. He writes, “We see a high risk that this is too late to turn around RIM’s position and believe the risk of further delays is meaningful. Even in the [...]
Top Mobile Operators Worldwide
List of the top Mobile Operators worldwide:
China Mobile 628M
SingTel (Singapore) 416M
Vodafone (UK) 382M
America Movil (Mexico) 236M
Telefonica (Spain) 227M
At 18. Verizon Wireless 106M
Full List at C114.net
Hat tip: @Mordyk
Congress, please don’t kill white spaces
The spectrum bill that passed the House last night will make any technologist weep. I know the tech community is upset over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), but this bill represents a somewhat geekier threat–killing more unlicensed spectrum. So Silicon Valley may want to get active over this one too. The House version of [...]
Revisiting Supercomputer Architectures
The chronology of high performance computing can be divided into “ages” based on the predominant systems architectures for the period. Starting in the late 1970s vector processors dominated HPC. By the end of the next decade massively parallel processors were able to make a play for market leader. For the last half of the 1990s, [...]
SDR Products Cut Design Time And Cost
Cognovo and Lime Microsystems have software-defined radio (SDR) chips and kits that can help you bring new wireless gear to market soon. Also, Aglient Technologies is using the Lime chip in its new wireless test system.
Source: Mobile Dev & Design
Processors enable global software defined radio platforms
The general explosion in available processor power makes SDR interesting for automobile OEMs. First of all, moving radio functions from hardware into software opens up cost benefits for global car production. Secondly, it affords producers flexibility when making decisions about future innovations in the pipeline—such as car-to-X. Nevertheless, pure SDR is still far from being [...]
Lattice Semiconductor Acquires Chipmaker SiliconBlue For $62 Million In Cash
Using a single chip ‘Field Programmable Gate Array’ (FPGA) fabric, SiliconBlue’s devices basically enable mobile designers to quickly add features to their mobile platform in areas such as connectivity, memory, storage, sensor management, video and imaging.
Full story at Tech Crunch.
Second phase of TD-LTE scale-trial: focus on multi-mode terminal
C114 reports that the second phase of TD-LTE scale-trial will start at the end of this year. Liu said, “The second phase of TD-LTE scale-trial will focus on multi-mode terminal,” She also stressed that, “The global development opportunities of TD-LTE have emerged in 2012, and 2012 is still the critical period of TD-LTE development.