May 24, 2013
Telecom Lead India: Qualcomm and Intel together captured less than 5 percent volume share in the tablet applications processor market in 2012. Strategy Analytics says Intel and Qualcomm’s tablet success will depend on Microsoft Windows tablet operating system’s take off. Intel, a ...
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Telecom Lead America: Broadcom Corporation (BRCM), a provider of semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, announced an integrated processor system-on-a-chip (SoC) for enterprise access points (EAPs). Designed to optimize 5G WiFi, the latest IEEE 802.11ac standard, the ...
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Telecom Lead India: Intel has unveiled Silvermont, the revamped version of Atom mobile processors, to take on wireless chip leader Qualcomm. The new mobile chip that enables 3x peak performance at 5x lower power enables Intel to increase its position in mobile chip market. Strategy Analytics ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: MediaTek has launched its dual-core smartphone platform – the MT6572 — amid fears of slow growth. The handset chip maker on Thursday said mobile consumers can expect hundreds of commercial models powered by the MT6572 beginning in June. The commercial launch is ...
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Telecom Lead India: Broadcom and Intel will pose significant challenges to Qualcomm in the mobile baseband processor chipset market over the next few years. ABI Research says the chip major Qualcomm is dominating LTE chipset sales with over two-thirds of shipments in 2012. Though established ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Spreadtrum Communications has terminated the employment of Chief Technology Officer Qiuzhen (Joe) Zou. The fabless semiconductor provider in China with advanced technology in 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards did not share reasons for sacking the CTO. Spreadtrum ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Broadcom and STMicro tied in unit shipments for the worldwide set-top box IC Market in 2012, with both delivering between 85 and 86 million video SoCs for set-top boxes (STBs). Third place Ali Technology saw significant growth within free-to-air terrestrial boxes by Chinese ...
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Telecom Lead America: Wireless chip major Qualcomm has increased 3G / 4G device shipment estimates and revenue and earnings guidance for fiscal 2013. As per the revised estimate, which was shared on Wednesday, Qualcomm said it aims to generate $24-25 billion revenue, up 26-31 percent, against ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Orange has selected Spreadtrum’s mobile platforms for delivering cost-effective, feature mobile handsets and smartphones to its users in European and African markets. The strategic partnership with Spreadtrum enables Orange to improve the affordability of smartphones and ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Idea Cellular has selected Broadcom’s integrated Android 4.0 platform for its Idea Ivory smartphone. New Idea Ivory phones, which are currently available in the Indian 3G market, feature 1GHz HSPA processor, VideoCore graphics and 3G/2G Dual SIM Dual Standby. Chip ...
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news/telecom chips Hans Vestberg, president and CEO, Ericsson Telecom Lead America: ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, will be split and eliminate 1600 jobs. The loss making chip company will be split as both partners could not find a buyer after announcing a ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Qualcomm India is betting on the deployment of UMTS 900 and 2100 MHz bands in India for further accelerating 3G growth in the country. Lakshminath Dondeti, director of Engineering – Technical Standards, Qualcomm India, told TelecomLead.com: “UMTS900 improves both ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: DTS, provider of high-definition audio technologies has collaborated with Qualcomm Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated to integrate the DTS Headphone:X onto Qualcomm Technologies’ latest Snapdragon processors, starting with the Snapdragon ...
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Telecom Lead America: Qualcomm Technologies has launched Qualcomm RF360 Front End Solution that enables a single, global 4G LTE design for mobile devices. The comprehensive, system-level solution addresses cellular radio frequency band fragmentation. The Qualcomm RF360 solution is designed to ...
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Telecom Lead America: Altair Semiconductor has launched two new baseband processors and a new radio chip — built on FourGee-3100/6202. The new chipset — based on Altair’s 3rd generation SDR architecture — supports LTE Release-10 features. It supports the emerging Carrier ...
Read MoreTelecom Lead India: Driven by 4G / LTE, Qualcomm is leading the cellular baseband processor market with 52 percent revenue share in 2012. The global cellular baseband processor market registered 18 percent year-on-year growth to reach $17.8 billion, according to the Strategy Analytics. Besides ...
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