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Qualcomm's New Snapdragon S4: MSM8960 & Krait Architecture Explored
Let's recap the current smartphone/tablet SoC landscape. Everything shipping today is built on a 4x-nm process, built either at Global Foundries, Samsung, TSMC or UMC. Next year we'll see a move to 28nm (bringing better performance and power …
Qualcomm's New Snapdragon S4: MSM8960 & Krait Architecture Explored
Let's recap the current smartphone/tablet SoC landscape. Everything shipping today is built on a 4x-nm process, built either at Global Foundries, Samsung, TSMC or UMC. Next year we'll see a move to 28nm (bringing better performance and power …
Sprint announces “aggressive ” LTE 4G rollout for mid-2012
Sprint is set to launch an ”aggressive roll-out” of LTE 4G technology on its network, starting in the middle of 2012, the third-largest US cellular carrier announced today.
As part of the upgrade, Sprint will simplify its cellular site hardware, …
Can the BlackBerry recover?
The August comScore mobile survey (MobiLens) is out. It measures the penetration or consumption of various mobile products and services in the US over a three month period.
I track the change in this data over time. Here are some highlights:
In August …
The world says goodbye: Obituaries pay tribute to Steve Jobs
Apple co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs passed away today, and in the wake of the confirmation, obituaries have been appearing on news sites around the world. Here are links to some of the pieces that we think capture the spirit of the m…
Cavium hears micro LTE base station call
Cavium Networks will go up against Freescale, Texas Instruments and others in the market for chips for a new generation of miniaturized LTE base stationsView the full article HERE.
Why No LTE iPhone 5 in 2011? Blame 28nm Maturity, Check Back In Q2/Q3 2012
Along the road leading up to today's iPhone 4S reveal were many rumors about the iPhone 5 coming out this year boasting a new thinner, teardrop profile – potentially even with LTE. Despite attempts to convince people otherwise, magic doesn't…
Apple Announces iPhone 4S, Available October 14
Apple finally delivers its next generation iPhone; 64GB model to cost $399 on contract
Softband Mobile Goes TD-LTE
Delegates of 24 operators from Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa attended the 2nd Global TD-LTE Initiative in Munich, to focus on TD-LTE technology. Around 40 attendees used the commercial and pre-commercial TD-LTE USB dongles provided by Huawe…
Sequans Working with Huawei on TD-LTE Large Scale Trial in Shenzhen for China Mobile
Sequans Communications S.A. and Huawei today jointly announced that they would begin a large scale trial in Shenzhen. This trial will be conducted on China Mobile’s TD-LTE network deployed by Huawei, using devices based on Sequans’ TD-LTE chipset.
Sprint’s LTE Plans Leaked
Sprint is already installing LTE equipment and has been field testing the network in select areas, reports C/Net. The company hopes to launch commercial service by the end of the first quarter, although it’s unclear how many markets will get the serv…
ABI Research Teardown: Motorola Designs Own LTE Chip for Droid Bionic
Motorola started shipping its highly anticipated Droid Bionic less than a couple weeks ago. As part of its Teardown research service, ABI Research has dismantled, analyzed, and tested the device down to the component level. The conclusion? The sec…
CERN Physicists Observe First Faster-Than-Light Long-Distance Travel
Neutrinos are first ever observed example of faster-than-light travel in a non-medium, defy laws of physics
Does white space need to be Weightless?
A new protocol for a new wavelength
Next week will see the formal launch of the Weightless radio protocol, designed for use in the soon-to-be-available white space frequencies. But can a protocol without weight really do it all?…
LTE sales overtake WiMax, says analyst
The market for mobile communications infrastructure is growing strongly, according to market research firm Infonetics Research Inc., which said that LTE infrastructure equipment spending greater than that of WiMax for the first time in 2Q11.View the fu…
Clearwire, China Mobile Partner Up To Expand LTE
It’s no secret that Clearwire is looking at rolling out an LTE network of their own here in the States, but a recently announced partnership could bring them some big support from overseas.
Lossy GCT files for $100 million IPO
GCT Semiconductor Inc., a loss-making fabless chip company that supplies chips for WiMax and LTE communications, has filed papers for an initial public offering of stock to be traded on NASDAQ that would raise up to $100 million.View the full article H…
RIM and the lamentation of the analyst
RIM shipped 10.6 million Blackberries and 200,000 PlayBooks in the last quarter. Management noted that their sell-through was significantly higher for Blackberry (13.7 million) but seems to be very weak for PlayBook as the prior quarter saw 500k units …
Mobile Impossible
In yesterday’s post about the “biggest mobile loser” I covered the exodus of users from non-smart devices in the US and EU5. I also said that what happens in those regions tends to happen in other regions with a time shift. In some regions it hap…
Sequans LTE chip wins Chinese approval
Sequans Communications SA has announced that its LTE communications chip, the SQN3010, has been approved by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), a government entity responsible for the regulation and development of China’s wi…