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Qualcomm inaugurates new design center in India

The new facility inaugurated by Qualcomm required a total investment of $22 million U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm has inaugurated its design center in Chennai, India, according to Indian press reports. The new facility was inaugurated by Ashwini Vaishnaw, India’s Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics & IT and...

Qualcomm launches new XR platform ahead of CES

The XR2+ Gen 2 comes with more GPU and AI capabilities; Qualcomm named Google and Samsung as among OEM partners Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show starting today in Las Vegas, Qualcomm announced the latest-and-greatest in Extended Reality (XR) silicon platforms. The XR2+ Gen 2,...

MediaTek unveils latest chipset, the Dimensity 9300

MediaTek says its latest Dimensity chipset enhances applications like gaming, video capture and generative AI processing MediaTek has announced the latest flagship mobile chip to its lineup, the Dimensity 9300 chipset. The new chipset has an embedded AI processor — the APU 790 AI —...

Ericsson, MediaTek showcase RedCap interoperability for 5G SA

The interoperability development testing (IoDT) took place at an Ericsson lab in Sweden Ericsson has teamed up with chipset maker MediaTek to perform 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) data and 5G voice calls on both frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) spectrum bands,...

Qualcomm claims 5G SA download record

The record was achieved using the Qualcomm Snapdragon X75 chipset Qualcomm has claimed a new record, achieving a download rate of 7.5 Gb/s in sub-6 GHz bands using a Standalone (SA) 5G network configuration, four-channel carrier aggregation (4CA) and its Snapdragon X75 chipset. The record was...

Ericsson, MediaTek claim upload speed record with uplink CA

Ericsson said that the combination of frequencies used was 50 megahertz FDD n1 and 100 megahertz TDD n77 Ericsson and MediaTek said they have set a new 5G upload speed record of 440 Mbps in low-band and mid-band spectrum using uplink carrier aggregation. In a release, the Swedish...

MediaTek refreshes its flagship chip with the Dimensity 9200+

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing the Oppo Find N2 Flip phone, which features a MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ chip, and I have been eagerly waiting for MediaTek to release its latest Dimensity refresh, the 9200+. The Dimensity 9200 (without the “+”), which was...

New Samsung UWB chipset for auto and IoT; plus new short-range portfolio brand

Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down to “single-digit centimetres”, reckons the South Korean firm. It has introduced the U100 as...

Sony Semi on cellular IoT innovation, acceleration (just don’t mention smart labels)

Want to know the latest with Sony’s smart label, the ground-breaking massive IoT use-case the firm’s Israeli IoT chip division prototyped with German pharmaceuticals company Bayer a couple of years back? Because it is still going, and about to get real – if word...

Assessing the LTE Cat-1 bis market – and Qualcomm’s late entry into it (Reader Forum)

There is a clear dichotomy in the cellular IoT market – high-throughput and high-power IoT applications powered by advanced 4G (LTE) and 5G at one end, and low-throughput and low-power applications powered by cellular IoT technologies like NB-IoT and LTE-M at the other. And...

Siemens and Qualcomm test indoor private 5G in CBRS for building automation

Siemens has worked with Qualcomm to deploy an indoor private 5G network in CBRS spectrum at Siemens headquarters in Chicago, with a view to test and develop solutions to automate building functions and services. The private 5G trial network is being used, initially to...

Keg tracking with Konvoy – how the beer industry got buzzed on IoT

Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, in the meantime, expanded its services portfolio, launched in international markets, and signed with...

Sony preps “first” LTE-M/NB-IoT chipset – as “most advanced” cellular IoT solution

Sony Semiconductor Israel has introduced a new dual-band low-power cellular IoT chipset solution which it claims is the “first” to combine the both LTE-M and NB-IoT in a single integrated modem. The new ALT1350 chipset also supports satellite (non-terrestrial; NTN) connectivity, plus cellular, satellite-GNSS,...

Skyworks, Sequans combine on “smallest” LTE-M and NB-IoT system-in-package

Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on the product, numbered SKY66431, to combine the France-based firm’s Monarch 2 modem with its...

Ignion intros digital-twin prototyping for IoT devices with up to five radios

Barcelona-based antenna company Ignion has launched a digital-twin prototyping tool for IoT devices with up to five radios. The latest version of its Antenna Intelligence Cloud (AIC) product, which ostensibly removes the need to start with a physical prototype, supports design simulations of IoT...

Qualcomm and Renault boost collaboration to target SDV platforms

The new automotive platforms would be based on Snapdragon digital chassis solutions from Qualcomm Technologies   Renault Group and Qualcomm Technologies announced that the companies intend to further expand their technology collaboration, aiming to deliver a centralized compute architecture for Renault’s next-generation of software-defined vehicles. Known as...

Arm integrates IoT development tools into GitHub, autoML platforms Qeexo, Nota.AI

Arm has integrated its development tools for embedded devices into the open source GitHub developer platform, home to 90 million developers, for faster IoT development. It is also working with development workflow providers Qeexo and Nota.AI to make its digital-twin developer software available on...

VW agrees €2.4bn auto-drive JV with Horizon Robotics in ‘most important’ China

Volkswagen (VW) Group is to invest €2.4 billion into a joint-venture partnership with China-based Horizon Robotics, maker of “energy-efficient computing solutions for smart vehicles”, to develop autonomous vehicles and driving systems for the Chinese market. The partnership is being led on the Volkswagen side...

Edge AI duo Imagimob and Syntiant integrate IoT software and silicon ML smarts

Stockholm-based edge AI platform company Imagimob is working with AI chip solution provider Syntiant to integrate its miniaturised machine learning (tinyML) platform with the California firm’s low-power NDP120 AI processor. The combination will enable developers to use the Imagimob platform to create commercial ML...

Considering cellular IoT – why LTE-M wins on every score that matters (Reader Forum)

The CAT-1 LTE modem was initially defined in 2008 as a low-cost, low-power alternative to connect IoT devices that needed to transfer limited amounts of data. However, vendors and network providers at that time focused on higher throughput. The actual device introduction started about...

Nokia targets “explosive” Industry 4.0 sectors with new industrial 5G devices

Private network vendor Nokia has bolstered its portfolio of industrial 5G devices with new ruggedised versions of its key 5G field-router and XR20 smartphone for the oil and gas sector. The new versions are designed for use in “hazardous, flammable, explosive, and dusty” environments,...

Ubiik intros network kit for NB-IoT, LTE-M on private LTE in 400MHz-2.6GHz range

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a network kit for running any LTE-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technology on private and hybrid cellular networks. These cellular IoT technologies include Cat-1, LTE-M, and NB-IoT, and the package covers usage in 410MHz and 450MHz bands...

FloLIVE teams up with Skylo to offer 5G IoT over satellite – with no new hardware

London-based startup FloLIVE, offering aggregated hybrid-private 5G from global mobile operators for IoT use cases, is working with California-based satellite IoT provider Skylo to augment its footprint with the addition of non-terrestrial 5G network (NTN) coverage, to go beyond the reach of terrestrial mobile...

Kigen and AT&T enable cloud-based SIM transfers to streamline IoT production

Belfast-based SIM development firm Kigen, previously part of chip design company Arm, is working with US carrier AT&T to enable IoT manufacturers to transfer SIM ownership of AT&T-connected IoT devices to their customers, in the form of end-user facing IoT providers, post-production – without...