Chips

Qualcommlogo

on March 2, 2012  



Qualcomm’s new chipset is expected to go a long way in improving the battery life of LTE smartphones.

samsung-nexus-lte-chip

on February 10, 2012  



Samsung reduces its LTE chip costs by half and the Galaxy Nexus sports the new, cheaper LTE baseband chip.

iphone4g

on November 18, 2011  



Qualcomm’s design of a new, integrated mobile device chip may make it possible for Apple to move to 4G LTE with the iPad and iPhone in 2012.

iphone-leather-edition-mont

on October 7, 2011  



Analysts believe that the delay in the release of the iPhone 5 may be due to the large size of LTE chips, which would have necessitated a change in the iPhone’s familiar design contours- a step that Apple was not willing to take.

Clearwire-LTE

on September 23, 2011   |   1 comment



With their biggest rival, upstart LightSquared, still embroiled in a legal battle with the government over the alleged interference with GPS signals their technology would cause, Clearwire is seeking to fill the wholesale wireless carrier void.

IPAD 3 LTE

on August 22, 2011   |   1 comment



Apple’s iPhone may be a whole year away from supporting 4G but perhaps their infamous iPad 3 tablet will do the job sooner.

HTC-Incredible-hd

on November 18, 2010  



Everything’s coming up Verizon on the LTE front this week– or at least Verizon’s name has been coming up a lot. Earlier in the week, an advertisement featuring the carrier’s first LTE-enabled USB modems leaked via Engadget. While that seemed to cover Verizon customers’ LTE desires through the holiday season, there’s now some official news [...]

tdc-main

on November 8, 2010  



Not much could be called rotten with the state of Denmark’s broadband networks. Many Danes will soon have “unmatched” high-speed Internet capabilities with a little help from their Swedish friends at Ericsson. TDC, Denmark’s leading mobile service provider, has tapped the telecom industry-leading equipment vendors to provide for and oversee the launch and operation of [...]

Broadcom-Enters-Applications-Processor-Market-2

on October 14, 2010   |   4 comments



Being a big dog in the realm of 3G cellular solutions sounds like a pretty good gig, until you stop and realize that while that specific technology set is still dominant on the broadband landscape—its time is wearing awfully thin. With competing wireless telecommunications component manufacturers such as Qualcomm ratcheting up production and deployment of [...]

on March 23, 2010  



Alpha Networks will use Wavesat’s Odyssey 9010 chipset for its latest USB dongles, CPEs and other end user devices. The Odyssey supports both 4G technologies, WiMAX and LTE. The Odyssey 9010 comes highly integrated SOC and low power consumption featuring programmable architecture that’s programmable with LTE’s evolving requirements. The newest chip supports FDD and TDD, [...]