Products from several smartphone vendors and processors from the likes of Nvidia are helping drive down the cost of LTE-enabled devices. LTE smartphone shipments will grow from about 90 million units last year to 275 million in 2013, ...
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Qualcomm, with its 50% share of the baseband processor and application processor markets and 86% share of the FDD-LTE modem market, is entering the LTE RF front-end market with a chip-set which works across all the 40 different frequency ...
With 86% of the 47 million LTE cellphone modems shipped last year, Qualcomm will certainly continue its domination in 2013, says Forward Concepts. "Samsung followed with 9% of the shipments, while tiny GCT Semiconductor managed to grab 3% ...
ST-Ericsson has cranked its forthcoming smartphone processor up to 3GHz. The quad-core NovaThor L8580 will include a PowerVR graphics processor and an LTE modem with support VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and next-generation LTE technology carrier ...
Nvidia hopes to power sub-$200 smartphones and tablets under $300 with its latest Tegra 4i processor, which is also the company's first chip with an integrated LTE modem. The quad-core Tegra 4i will be used by device makers in LTE-capable ...
Tags: Nvidia, LTE smartphones, tablets
Features 60 NVIDIA GPU cores and a quad-core CPU based on ARM Cortex-A9 r4 CPU with 2.3GHz frequency NVIDIA has released Tegra 4i, its fully integrated 4G LTE mobile processor which claims to offer faster processing. The processor has ...
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Broadcom has unveiled its smallest ever 4G LTE-Advanced smartphone wireless modem. The race is on to amongst chip suppliers to take the initiative for the generation of super mobiles which will come after this year's LTE smartphones. The ...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processors will deliver up to 75% "better" performance compared with Snapdragon S4 Pro, said the firm as it announced sampling at CES. Snapdragon 600 is also sampling, and will deliver up to 40% better performance ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset,but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of dominant ARM chips. ...
Tags: Intel, smartphones, ARM rivals, new reference design
It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
Tags: ARM, Intel, smartphone, smartphone rivals
ST-Ericsson has announced its fastest LTE smartphone platform, the NovaThor L8580 ModAp has an eQuad application processor running at up to 2.5GHz. The NovaThor L8580 will be available to sample in Q1 2013. It is built on 28nm ...
Tags: ST Ericsson, smartphone platform, eQuad application processor
Semi-conductors supplier ST-Ericsson last night unveiled a mobile device chipset that it says will add five hours to the battery life of smartphones once adopted by industry. The Swiss based company, which supplies chipsets and ...
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Qualcomm's keynote at the International CES was packed with big names and even a Big Bird, but CEO Paul Jacobs' focus was on something much smaller -- a new family of processors aimed at high-end smartphones and tablets. The Snapdragon ...
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Asustek's latest Transformer Pad TF300TL has a quad-core processor and LTE capabilities to go along with a 10.1-inch screen, the company said on Friday. Asus is selling the tablet in the U.S. for $449 for a model with 16GB of storage; a ...
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ST-Ericssona's integrated applications processor and modem,NovaThor,recorded 28%sequential growth in shipments in Q2,according to Strategy Analytics. While Qualcomm maintained its lead position with 48%of the apps processor ...
Tags: ST-Ericsson, NovaThor, growth, Android