By leveraging Newport Media's advanced OFDM baseband and RF CMOS technology, the NMC1000 offers levels of performance, power consumption, and external bill of material (BOM) typically associated with the world's leading connectivity solutions providers.

ENGADGET: Newport Media claims tiniest, lowest-power 802.11n WiFi chip yet, smartphones get a little less thirsty

The supposed Qualcomm default in "digital RF" is entirely fictional, as Qualcomm has moved to all CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) integrated devices before TI, and RF is intrinsically analog on the front end.

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