The risk to Qualcomm is competition from Broadcom and Nvidia, both out with new LTE chipsets.
Nvidia is suing Intel for the right to build chipsets that work with Intel's latest processors.
Qualcomm is including 2.5 among the several bands in which its chipsets will operate going forward.
The dominant supplier of CDMA chipsets is Qualcomm, the largest fabless chip company in the world.
But they do rather lack the graphics and number crunching ability of the Intel chipsets.
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In fact, the company launched four new desktops just this week with AMD chipsets.
Moreover, the chipsets were built on a 40nm manufacturing process that made power-efficient designs with LTE difficult.
So, they have to run three chipsets - good, better, best, effectively - at least for now.
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Qualcomm makes mobile chipsets used in mobile phones made by mobile manufacturers like Motorola, Nokia.
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Currently, chipsets based on Arm's designs, such as Nvidia's popular Tegra processors, are unable to run Windows.
"We are well-positioned to take advantage of new technology, chipsets, devices and applications, " said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse.
While most machines pack AMD chipsets, Acer's model runs an Ivy Bridge CPU and offers 500GB of storage.
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Of the 47 million LTE-capable chipsets that were shipped last year, Qualcomm accounted for nearly 86% of the market.
Covering his bets, he'd even like to sell chipsets to cable-box makers themselves.
Hedging his bets, he'd like to sell chipsets to the cable-box makers themselves.
The MDM9225 and MDM9625 chipsets are Qualcomm's third generation of LTE modem chipsets.
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Qualcomm sells mobile chipsets and provides its CDMA mobile phone technology to companies like Motorola, Samsung and LG.
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Qualcomm, Broadband, and others offer chipsets that are basically wireless phones on a chip or a set of chips.
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Hence the fast Snapdragon growth should slow down the average chipsets pricing decline.
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Success in tablet chipsets would tremendously expand the addressable chipset market for Qualcomm.
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Analysts will be looking for news on 2009 products, including faster, higher-end phones that will be built using Qualcomm and Texas Instruments chipsets.
Promotions and better chipsets aside, Verizon will now have to fix the bugs that have been causing the frequent LTE outages.
The entry-level quad-core chipsets will help Qualcomm address the growing demand for low-end phones that can offer higher levels of performance.
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TCL's handsets, for instance, run on chipsets and software from Wavecom, a French company that makes communication modules for wireless gadgets.
On Wednesday, the San Diego-based chipmaker reported third-quarter results that exceeded analyst estimates thanks to demand for its chipsets and licensed technologies.
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It established a global consortium to develop standards and attract major hardware manufacturers like Qualcomm to include 2.5 in multi band chipsets.
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Sprint and Intel have been saying WiMAX chipsets will begin appearing not only in notebook computers, but also in UMDs and consumer devices.
Chipset prices declined at a faster rate in 2010 due to increasing competition and introduction of new chipsets designed for lower price points.
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Later this year or early next year, Acer Laboratories and Silicon Integrated Systems will also launch chipsets that work with Duron, he said.
As with any new processor, one area of concern for AMD will be assuring an adequate supply of chipsets that work with Duron.
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