Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consideration. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by ...
Ericsson last week announced that it had a struck a deal with Kuwait's Wataniya Telecom to upgrade the telco's existing 2G and 3G networks. Aiming to meet the growing demand for 3G services in Kuwait, Ericsson will add WCDMA/HSPA ...
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Rohde & Schwarz has said that Deutsche Telekom is using its CMW KO550 test case option for quality assurance of its LTE network in Germany. The option is used by Deutsche Telekom to run specific LTE protocol test scenarios. The network ...
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In Star Wars terms, the small cells that mobile carriers and vendors will be talking up this week at Mobile World Congress are more like the odd-couple androids R2-D2 and C-3PO than like their foes, the Empire's phalanxes of identical storm ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is ramping several antenna tuning products with smartphone manufacturers. The devices are meeting the market demand for ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
Tags: Skyworks, SkyOne platform, transceiver
Smartphones and tablets with the emerging Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, 802.11ac, will arrive early in the second half of this year, a Qualcomm executive said. Mobile devices based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series processors ...
Tags: Smartphone, tablet, Wi-Fi wireless networking technology
Rohde & Schwarz has tuned its mid-range measuring instruments to handle WLAN signals in line with IEEE 802.11ac. New options extend the baseband of the SMBV100A vector signal generator to 160MHz, supporting high-speed modes for WLAN IEEE ...
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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 ...
The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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For full-year 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $112.6m, down 26.3% on 2011’s $152.8m. However, although down 16.5% on $36.5m a ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the AWB7224 small-cell power amplifier (PA), optimized to deliver a combination of efficiency, linearity, output power ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has introduced two new high-performance Multi-band, Multi-mode Power Amplifiers (MMPAs). The highly integrated MMPAs support more ...
Maxim Integrated Products has announced it latest small cell RF transceiver which supports all 3G and 4G LTE frequency bands. The company believes small cell basestations will play a strategic part in the rollout of 4G services both ...
Tags: MWC, Multi-Band LTE, Small Cells