Quantenna Shows Dual-band 4×4 MIMO Wi-Fi
Quantenna Communications is showcasing its first dual-band (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) 4x4 MIMO (four streams) silicon at this week’s ...
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Jury Awards $1.169 Billion to Carnegie Mellon in Patent Case
A jury in Pittsburgh awarded $1.169 billion to Carnegie Mellon University in a patent infringement case against Marvell Semiconductor. Carnegie ...
Ericsson Decides Against Taking Full Ownership of ST-Ericsson
Ericsson has decided not to take over full ownership of ST-Ericsson and will take a non-cash charge of approximately SEK ...
Avago Samples 100G Ethernet/OTN PHYs in 28nm CMOS
Avago Technologies has begun sampling its new Vortex Gearbox family of Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY) devices supporting Ethernet and Optical ...
Vitesse and Microsemi Develop 1588v2 Sync and Timing Reference Design
Vitesse Semiconductor and Microsemi Corp. introduced a reference design for implementing IEEE 1588v2 synchronization and timing in packet-based networks. The ...
Qualcomm Atheros Integrates Wireless Controller in GigE Switching Chip
Qualcomm Atheros introduced a high port-count Gigabit Ethernet switching chip that integrates wireless controller functions into the switch silicon for ...
IBM’s Silicon Nanophotonics Integrates 25G Tranceivers in 90nm CMOS
IBM has integrated multiple optical components alongside electrical circuits using 90nm semiconductor process technology. Essentially, IBM has successfully added a ...
ST Exits Wireless Broadband to Focus on Sensors, Embedded Processing
STMicroelectronics unveiled a new corporate strategy under which it will exit the ST-Ericsson partnership and the wireless broadband market, choosing ...
Blueprint: The Transport Network Challenge
by Scott Wakelin, Product Line Manager in PMC-Sierra’s Communication Products Division Optical network operators worldwide are faced with a tremendous challenge ...
Qualcomm Atheros Cuts Size of NFC Chip by 50%
Qualcomm Atheros unwrapped a new ultra-low power near field communication (NFC) system-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices. The QCA1990 boasts an ...
Cortina Debuts 28nm EDC PHY for Next Wave of Network Gear
Cortina Systems introduced its 28nm EDC PHY architecture designed to enable higher port counts and increased faceplate and backplane bandwidth ...
Marvell Develops 802.11ac 4×4
Marvell introduced the first 802.11ac 4x4 wireless local area network (WLAN) system-on-chip (SoC), offering up to 1.3 Gbps of Wi-Fi ...
Vitesse Powers Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Access with 1588v2
Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a new Network Interface Device/Ethernet Access Device (NID/EAD) reference design based on its CEServices software and Serval ...
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