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Sravan Kundojjala
| Mar 31, 2011
Global cellular baseband revenue reached $13.2 billion in 2010 showing an impressive 20 percent year-over-year growth while unit shipments grew 25.5 percent.
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Mar 21, 2011
Last week we published our smartphone applications processor market share estimates for 2010. By our estimates, the smartphone applications processor market sho...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Feb 11, 2011
Nokia announced today that it will adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone as its main strategy for smartphones, embracing Microsoft's developer ecosystem to drive...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Feb 11, 2011
On Thursday February 10, 2011 in a change to its long-standing strategy of developing integrated processors, Qualcomm revealed details of its first stand-alone...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Feb 08, 2011
Texas Instruments (TI) gave a significant boost to its OMAP applications processor line-up yesterday by announcing the ARM Cortex A-15-based OMAP 5 ap...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jan 28, 2011
During its Q4 CY2010 earnings call Nokia hinted at the possibility of third party operating systems such as Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Win...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jan 19, 2011
Multi-core processors are the name of the game in high-end smartphones and tablets in 2011 and are increasingly becoming an essential marketing and technology s...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jan 07, 2011
Microsoft announced at CES-2011 that its next generation Windows PC platform will run on ARM architectures. NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments were named as...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jan 05, 2011
Qualcomm announced the acquisition of Atheros Communications today to strengthen its market presence in the non-handset markets and to unlock the value of its c...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Dec 06, 2010
Mobile phone applications processors power today's smartphone apps and increasingly phones are promoted as packing "1GHz processors" or even "dual-cores".
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Nov 09, 2010
Nokia announced yesterday that the Symbian Foundation will morph its role from an operational entity to an IP and trademark licensing entity. This news should n...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Oct 13, 2010
Broadcom announced today that it will acquire privately held 4G chipset vendor Beceem Communications for $316 million. Beceem, founded in 2003, is the leading ...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Oct 07, 2010
Last week we published our cellular baseband market share estimates for 1H 2010. By our estimates, cellular baseband unit shipments grew 23 percent and revenues...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Sep 01, 2010
Consolidation in the baseband market continued with Intel acquiring Infineon's wireless business on Monday for $1.4 billion. Infineon's takeover is the fourth h...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Aug 27, 2010
As smartphone shipments grow as a percentage of total mobile phone shipments, processor suppliers also have to revise their strategies to tap into this growth. ...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Aug 24, 2010
It's hard not to see that mobile software platform players are positioning themselves as a one-stop shop to offer an integrated experience to their target custo...
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Stephen Entwistle
| Aug 12, 2010
Hear insights from Stuart Robinson, Director of Strategy Analytics’ SpecTRAX service, who will talk about the important trends in recent global cellular h...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jul 27, 2010
MediaTek today signed an agreement with NTT docomo to license the latter’s LTE IP. MediaTek is a significant player in the WiMax baseband market but curre...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jul 06, 2010
Nokia announced today that Renesas will acquire its wireless modem technologies business for $200 million and the transaction is expected to close before the en...
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Sravan Kundojjala
| Jun 24, 2010
We have just finished up our Q4 2009 update to our baseband market share model. This gives us full year 2009 market share as well. It's the combined work of my...
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