Industry Articles

  August 2, 2011   Processor Vendors Target Small Basestations
To support a shift to smaller cellular basestations, chip makers are seeking ways to reduce system cost. Integrating the CPU and DSP on the same chip is essential to meeting these lower cost targets. Yet this integration sets up a collision between Freescale, the leading supplier of processors for basestations, and Texas Instruments, the leading vendor of DSP chips.
  February 15, 2011   Mobile Multicores Multiply At 2011 MWC
Just like desktop PCs before them, mobile devices will leap to multicore processors. The first dual-core smart phone, the LG Optimus, is now shipping with an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.
  December 8, 2010   Wireless Modems Go Soft In The Move To 4G
To make the transition from 3G to 4G technologies, wireless baseband vendors face a huge increase in processing requirements, due to both the greater complexity of the underlying orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) algorithms and the increase in data rates.
  November 23, 2010   Broadcom reveals CPU development
In an exclusive article in Microprocessor Report this week, Broadcom revealed that it has developed a new MIPS-compatible CPU, the BRCM 5000, for its broadband SoCs.
  October 13, 2010   It's a bumpy road to high-speed networking
100GbE and greater density line cards can help provide the network bandwidth demanded by video traffic and mobile backhaul applications.
  August 6, 2010   Broadcom Gains Ground In The GPS Chip Market
Broadcom entered the GPS market in June 2007 with its acquisition of a small GPS company called Global Locate. Broadcom has a clear strategy: it only enters markets where it expects to become the top vendor.
  January 8, 2010   Mobile Chips Evolve To Handle Demands Of Smart-Phone Features
Mobile processors are rapidly evolving. The demands of Web browsing are driving higher-performing smart-phone processors. At the same time, cost pressures demand greater integration from chip vendors. Yet the desired integration is different for smart phones, PNDs, e-book readers, or netbooks.
  January 7, 2010   Modern FPGAs Get Ready For Use In Next-Generation Designs
Engineers are attracted to the flexibility of FPGAs and the ability to make major changes to their designs during testing and even in the field. These attributes are particularly important for emerging markets, where requirements are changing and there are no application-specific standard product (ASSP) solutions.
  December 15, 2009   Warning: Thrills Ahead with Next-Gen Processor Technologies
You can ignore it, but it won’t go away: More cores – lots more cores – are coming to a processor near you. Here’s an analysis from the Linley Group of what’s happening now in “many-core” trends.
  October 1, 2009   Chip Makers Target LTE
With backing from nearly all of the leading cellular-service providers in the world, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is clearly the 4G technology of choice for mobile data. Both Verizon and NTT plan to initiate LTE service late this year, with other major carriers following over the next few years. Due to the high cost and short battery life of initial LTE devices, shipments will be small to start, reaching perhaps 10 million units in 2011. Even in 2014, LTE will still constitute less than 10% of cellular-baseband shipments. As the cost drops and capabilities of LTE devices improve, however, shipments should exceed those of 3G devices by 2019.

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