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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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Chris Taylor
| May 12, 2020
The following blog written by Igor Tovberg, Director of Product Marketing at Altair Semiconductor, promotes Altair’s chipsets. Other cellular IoT so...
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Stephen Entwistle
| Jan 10, 2020
Broadcom to Sell PA and Filter Unit
Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Broadcom wants to sell its RF chip business unit, which had $2.2 billi...
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Chris Taylor
| Dec 18, 2019
Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Broadcom wants to sell its RF chip business unit, which had $2.2 billion in sales in Broadcom’s 2019 fiscal ye...
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Chris Taylor
| Dec 18, 2019
Contrary to first impressions of many analysts and encouraged by Qualcomm’s common practice of conflating processors, chipsets, and platforms, the new Sna...
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Chris Taylor
| Sep 12, 2019
With Qualcomm’s new Wi-Fi 6 platforms, users will benefit from better Wi-Fi performance even in lower-priced devices.
In August 2019, Qualcomm announced ...
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Chris Taylor
| Jun 25, 2019
Wi-Fi 6, the latest Wi-Fi standard, has come a long way in the last 18 months, having started to ship in phones and laptops as well as access points. Mark...
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Chris Taylor
| Apr 19, 2019
On April 16, 2019, Apple and Qualcomm settled their combative legal battle after opening arguments the day before in a US Federal court. Given the complex...
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Chris Taylor
| Jan 04, 2019
As of January 4, 2019, Apple’s stock price had plunged 40 percent from its 52 week high a few months before, and had dropped 18 percent over the past thre...
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Chris Taylor
| Dec 07, 2018
This week, Qualcomm officially launched the Snapdragon 855, the latest and greatest Qualcomm processor and chipset for flagship smartphones. The chipset s...
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Stephen Entwistle
| Dec 01, 2018
At the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit Analyst & Media Briefings yesterday, Patrick Little, SVP & GM of Automotive, made a case for Snapdragon processors replacin...
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