To get the baseband to listen to him, he had to override the commands it was getting from another part of the phone.
Semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments Monday reported better than expected quarterly earnings and revenues, despite sharply lower sales of the baseband processors used to connect handsets to wireless networks.
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Since at least last September there have been rumors about whether Apple has tapped wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm to power cellular baseband in next generation of Apple iOS devices, namely iPhone 5 and iPad 2.
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Broadcom currently accounts for close to 4% of the mobile baseband and application processor market.
Samsung has started edging away from Qualcomm baseband processors recently when it comes to Android devices.
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Hopping over to the About screen, he was shocked to discover that the device was running ICS. The firmware appears to be operating on the same baseband as the screenshots leaked a few weeks ago, but it's running on an updated build (IRK48) and kernel (3.0.1).
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Based on its success in executing and integrating baseband processors, Broadcom is well positioned to deliver the latest mobile broadband technologies for these next generation devices.
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According to a recent Strategy Analytics report, the baseband chipset market showed strong growth in Q1 2011.
Qualcomm supplies the baseband processor as well as licenses its technology for others to manufacture the processor.
Baseband procesors the chips that link mobile handsets to wireless networks are due for another around of upgrades.
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By utilizing this feature, manufacturers can convert existing single-camera smartphone designs to dual camera systems without the need for more expensive baseband processors.
Qualcomm has so far managed to avert that threat with its technological supremacy in the baseband market, but going forward it needs partners in other mobile-related domains such as displays.
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It is the first Icera modem to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA's software defined radio baseband processor.
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According to Strategy Analytics, Broadcom continued to improve its product mix and ranked fourth in the cellular baseband market in the first half of 2012.
The chip, which is designed specifically for smartphones (tablets will take advantage of Tegra 4 instead), features four 28nm Cortex-A9 r4 (beefed-up from the standard A9) cores that can be clocked up to 2.3GHz, 60 GPU cores (compared to 72 on the T4) and an integrated i500 LTE baseband modem.
Additionally, Nvidia acquired Icera in the past quarter which will give it a chance to strengthen its position in the chipset market (see Nvidia Acquires Icera as Baseband Chipset Market Heats Up).
China Times reports that orders for TSMC's 28nm silicon are lined up to as far out as late Q3, courtesy of demand for ARM processors, baseband chips, graphics processors and x86 processors.
From glass suppliers like Corning (GLW) to touch capacitive solutions from Synaptics (SYNA) and Silicon Labs (SLAB) and RF solution and baseband companies, like Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), RF Micro Devices (RFMD), TriQuint Semiconductor (TQNT), Qualcomm (QCOM) and Broadcom (BRCM) among others.
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