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TI introduces 1st quad ARM A15 core basestation on a chip for LTE/LTE-A at Mobile World Congress
Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced the next generation of their multicore system on a chip (SOC) architecture, Keystone II, at the Mobile World Congress this week. The company also announced the first device that employs the new architecture, the TCI6636 base station on a chip. Tom Flanagan, Director of Technical Strategy for Wireless Base Station [...]
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Freescale claims highest performance macrocell basestation on a chip at Mobile World Congress
With their announcement of the B4860 at Mobile World Congress, Freescale Semiconductor is extending their line of QorIQ Qonverge basestation on a chip SOCs from picocells up through to large macro cells. In August of last year, Freescale began sampling their 45nm PSC9132/ 31/ 30 for femto and pico cells. The B4860, which Freescale will [...]
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4G Focus: U.S. wireless operators prepare to takeLTE mainstream in 2012
But questions remain, do operators have sufficient spectrum and network infrastructure to support the transition from 3G?
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Semiconductor vendors push LTE into the mainstream while preparing for LTE-Advanced
The recently held 2012 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, February 27 to March 1 was a hotbed for announcements of new LTE-based chips and devices. Semiconductor manufacturers indicated that they are eager to expand the 4G market in multiple directions to new market tiers, geographies, and technologies. And with new technologies, companies are [...]
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Managing Wireless Connectivity Challenges Users of Mobile Devices
According to Comscore, smartphone adoption exceeded 40% penetration with mobile users in the U.S. at the end of 2011, representing an increase of 15% in just one year. As rapid as that growth is, however, tablet devices have proliferated at an even greater pace. Comscore also found that consumers can now choose from more than [...]
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LTE delivers on the promise of 4G, but no panacea for fragmentation
While wireless operators add more spectrum to build their next generation networks, multimode devices will be required to adapt to an increasing number of variations in each deployment.
