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Chris Taylor
| Jun 14, 2022
Qualcomm has the leading market share in the smartphone cellular radio transceiver market. At least one transceiver ships with each radio communications p...
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Chris Taylor
| Jun 10, 2022
Packetcraft just announced a Bluetooth Low Energy Audio (LE Audio) solution certified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG).
This is signific...
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Chris Taylor
| May 23, 2022
As part of an effort to compete more effectively with Qualcomm in the premium and high value smartphone tiers, MediaTek today announced its first 5G chipset pla...
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Chris Taylor
| May 10, 2022
Wireless telecommunications has escaped the worst effects of the semiconductor shortage; top-selling smartphone makers such as Apple could not quite meet demand...
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Chris Taylor
| Mar 04, 2022
Even though the ink is barely dry on the IEEE’s 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 standard, MediaTek and Qualcomm have announced radio chips supporting Wi-Fi 7. Thes...
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Chris Taylor
| Nov 22, 2021
In 2021, Qualcomm passed Qorvo and Skyworks to establish itself as the leading supplier of RF front end components in cellular user equipment in revenue terms.&...
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Chris Taylor
| Oct 28, 2021
On October 20, 2021, Qualcomm announced its UltraBAW™ family of bulk acoustic wave RF filters suitable for the higher frequencies and wider fractional ba...
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 14, 2021
Filter suppliers recently started to ship SAW and BAW filters with higher performance based on thin-film SAW and doped aluminum nitride BAW resonators, but this...
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 09, 2021
Yesterday I moderated a Microwave Journal panel discussion about ultra-wideband (UWB) technology and applications. Representatives of Qorvo, NXP Semis, Sa...
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Chris Taylor
| Jun 25, 2021
Qualcomm just posted a blog with the latest Ookla speed test results for 5G devices.
According to the results, in the U.S., 5G mmWave is thirty-eight ti...
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Chris Taylor
| Jun 02, 2021
Restricted from buying some semiconductors from the outside by the U.S. and unable to purchase critical semiconductor equipment as well, self-sufficiency has ta...
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Chris Taylor
| May 20, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, trade sanctions against China aimed at cutting off semiconductors set the stage for today’s global semiconductor shorta...
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Chris Taylor
| Feb 17, 2021
The digital connected future will arrive sooner than most of us realize, with difficult to fathom consequences that will depend how we respond as ...
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Chris Taylor
| Feb 11, 2021
Just eight days after MediaTek announced its first millimeter-wave capable 5G modem, Qualcomm has again upped the ante with the X65, the fastest wireless modem ...
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Chris Taylor
| Oct 27, 2020
Executive Summary
In September, 2020, the government of China announced the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase II in the amount of $28....
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 11, 2020
Automobile makers Ford, Honda, Daimler AG and Tesla, joined by chip makers Intel and MediaTek, called for a rehearing of the FTC case against Qualcomm in what i...
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 09, 2020
Menlo Micro (Irvine, CA) has developed a high-reliability, metal contact MEMS switch that the company claims does not suffer from stiction. The voltage-ac...
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Chris Taylor
| Aug 06, 2020
5G was off to a great start in the first year, 2019, and the year 2020 is shaping up be the year of 5G. Qualcomm, the cellular baseband processor and cell...
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Chris Taylor
| Jul 09, 2020
Qualcomm announced its ultraSAW filters in February 2020, claiming them to be “groundbreaking.” Frankly, without any details from Qualcomm, th...
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Chris Taylor
| Jun 04, 2020
A new U.S. trade policy against Huawei unravels the network of relationships that have tied the electronics industry and global trade together, and threatens th...
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