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As for wireless connectivity, the options today include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G via a GSM modem chip.
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As a result of being so small the modem chip will also be more energy efficient and cheaper to produce.
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The design, which combines a CPU and modem on a single chip, is more affordable, efficient and compact than systems that use two chips, said Lin.
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All the components to make the chip, including modem, antenna, microprocessor and memory, can be fabricated as a single unit helping to keep unit costs low.
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It sheds the newer Cortex-A15 architecture of the Tegra 4 for a spruced-up 2.3GHz Cortex-A9 with the i500 LTE modem built directly into the chip die -- a move that cuts the surface area in half and simplifies the hardware, even as it supposedly outruns equivalent competition.
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The Broadcom-Qualcomm battle has echoes of the skirmish between Intel and AMD over PC chips, except theirs is a war over three key sockets in a smartphone: the processor (brain), the modem, and the connectivity combo chip.
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Tesla might still yet swap that GSM chip out for a 4G modem with another carrier, though, I was told.
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The chip is based on technology Nvidia acquired when it purchased wireless modem company Icera last year.
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