Will Strauss: Wireless/DSP Newsletter

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter, 4/3/2012

Monday, April 2, 2012 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
by Will Strauss Intel Inside® Smartphone Shipments Begin…in India Since Intel's acquisition of the cellular properties of Infineon Technologies AG, millions of cellphones have shipped with "Intel Inside." But no handsets have had the Intel legacy for the Intel Inside® nom... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter, 3/21/2012

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 10:10 | By Will Strauss
 by Will Strauss Mobile World Congress Afterthoughts MWC'12 in Barcelona ended the first day of March and had record attendance of 67,000 from 205 countries, of which probably half could be counted as company executives and included some 3,500 CEOs.  Unlike some U.S. conferences, almost all of the... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 12/1/2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 23:00 | By Will Strauss
MIPS Claims First "Ice Cream Sandwich" Tablet: And Under $100 In what appears to be an end-run around the ARM crowd, little-known Ingenic Semiconductor, a China-based CPU provider for mobile multimedia applications, has announced worldwide availability of the world’s first tablet based on Android... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 11/1/2011

Monday, October 31, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
Do Silicon Start-Ups Have A Future? This is blatantly lifted from David Manners' October 3rd "Mannerisms" Electronics Weekly blog: My friend David quoted Lawrence Johns of Amadeus Capital Partners, "At the moment most of the VCs in the world will not invest in silicon companies," said... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 10/3/2011

Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
Cavium Jumps into LTE Picocell Market Today, Cavium Networks announced its new Octeon Fusion™ "Baseband-on-a-Chip" cellular infrastructure family, initially addressing carrier-centric picocells. The small-cell base station family is scalable from 32 users to 300. The initial CNF7120, due to ship... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 9/6/2011

Monday, September 5, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
Nokia's Move to Windows Mobile 7 Now Looks Brilliant Following Google's pending acquisition of Motorola Mobile, the Android world seems to be in a quandary. Will Google favor Motorola with advance info on future Android features and releases? Market-leading Google's Android (of many flavors) may no... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 8/1/2011

Monday, August 1, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
AllJoyn™ Enables Direct Connections Among Several Devices Qualcomm spends a lot of money on R&D, usually to improve their products; but in this case to engender new utility for cellphones, tablets and even PCs...even those that don't employ Qualcomm chips. AllJoyn ("all join") is a platform... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 6/27/2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
New LTE Handsets Take Different Modem Tacks There's no question that HTC's Thunderbolt LTE/CDMA handset for Verizon's LTE network has been a hit. That, of course, followed the Samsung Craft fielded on the MetroPCS network. The Thunderbolt employs two Qualcomm modems while the Craft employs an LTE modem... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 6/1/2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
NVIDIA's Icera Purchase Changes the Cellular Chip Landscape As I suggested in my November 3, 2010 newsletter, graphics leader NVIDIA has purchased Icera Semiconductor for $375 million in cash. I personally think that was a bargain price for Nvidia, since the acquisition now puts it on a level that could rival... Read More »

Forward Concepts Wireless/DSP Newsletter 5/2/2011

Sunday, May 1, 2011 - 22:00 | By Will Strauss
Why Apple Cannot Ship an LTE iPhone in 2011 Tim Cook, Apple's Acting Chief Executive, has stated that "early generation LTE chips would require too many compromises in design," and that has been interpreted as indicating that a 4G-enabled Verizon iPhone won’t be with us anytime soon. But,... Read More »