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Update from Intel on its LTE chip business
In the year 2011, Intel has gained market share in baseband chip business by acquiring Infineon's modem chip business. Intel has quietly developed new LTE modem chip/ module products both for mobile handhelds as well as portable computers. Intel has announced its multimode, multiband 4G LTE modem ch
3 min readFast growth estimated for wireless networking semiconductor market
Covering industrial control/automation to new applications such as agriculture/farm automation, wireless networks is a fast growing market. The various protocols in wireless network such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Z-Wave finding increased usage across multiple application domains. Most of
5 min readABI: Pulsed RF power semiconductor markets to exceed $250M by 2018
ABI Research has reported the markets for pulsed RF power devices up to 18 GHz are expected to show continued solid growth over the next five years despite the current economic turmoil and cuts in defense spending. While the volatility of many global electronics markets is fueled by their associatio
3 min readHighly programmable RF transceiver for SDR n/w design
70 MHz to 6 GHz frequency supporting capable RF transceiver chip for software defined radio applications is available from Analog Devices. This highly-programmable and performance-packed RF transceiver integrates RF front-end, programmable mixed-signal baseband, frequency synthesizers, two analog-t
3 min readIndium Phosphide-based transceiver chip for 100X faster mobile phones
Engineers at Fujitsu have developed 240 gigahertz bandwidth capable microwave receiver IC. The Indium Phosphide semiconductor-based receiver IC is a multistage amplifier with high sensitivity. It also features protection against amplifiers oscillator effect. The present 4G capable LTE supporting sm
4 min readSmall cell backhaul equipment forecast: <0.5B in 2013 to >5B in 2018
ABI Research has forecasted small cell backhaul equipment to grow to over $5 billion in 2018, up from a forecast $487 million for 2013 representing a 48% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). ABI reported "Sub 6GHz technology will capture over 47% of small cell backhaul equipment revenue, or $2.4
2 min readFETs from CEL for satellite and wireless equipment
California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) has unveiled two Small Signal GaAs FET NE3516S02 and NE3513M04 for designing X to Ku band low noise block (LNB) downconverters for direct broadcast satellites and also for designing X to Ku band wireless communications. CEL says these GaAs FETs offer improved A
2 min readUMS offering RF IC design flow using Agilent's latest ADS software
United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) has made available enhanced Process Design Kits (PDKs) by using the latest product innovations in Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System (ADS) electronic design automation software. UMS offers a proven family of III-V semiconductor material based proce
3 min readFirst SDR radio chip by NXP for C2C and C2I communication
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has unveiled software defined radio processor chip SAF5100 for car to car (C2C) and car to infrastructure (C2I) communication. NXP semiconductors has successfully conducted field trials of C2C and C2I communication based on the earlier version of this chip in Germany. Tw
3 min readRF antenna switch with MIPI RFFE interface
Toshiba has developed an SP10T RF antenna switch with a MIPI RFFE interface with low insertion loss and of small size for the smartphone design. The new product uses advanced RF SOI process using silicon on insulator (SOI) technology. By using this advanced new process called TaRF5 process, Tos
1 min readNoise free 30 GHz+ signal generator circuit for automotive radar apps
It is difficult to get noise free signal in microwave frequency range of 30 gigahertz and above, Fujitsu has announced millimeter wave low noise signal generator circuit for automotive radar and other millimeter-band RF transceiver. The specialty of this innovation is this circuit can be used to pr
4 min readMobile n/w used for wireless M2M to increase by 22% in 2013
Berg Insight has estimated the global number of mobile network connections used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication will increase by 22 percent in 2013 to reach 164.5 million. East Asia, Western Europe and North America are the main regional markets, accounting for around 75 percent
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