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ST Ericsson – No Life in the Old Cat

          ST Ericsson is being quietly put to sleep after further failures. Ericsson is following Broadcom and Renesas into the void by announcing the closure of...

Qualcomm vs. Ericsson – No sweat.

          Ericsson represents very little threat to Qualcomm or MediaTek. Ericsson’s handset radio chipset business is emerging from the ashes of two failed joint ventures to...

Apple vs. Qualcomm – Black magic

          Apple is likely to stay away from the black art of cellular radio. News articles and recent hires by Apple suggest that Apple may be...

Wireless Charging – Usual muddle

          From a muddle of three standards one should emerge. Wireless charging is a great accessory to have but high cost and standard fragmentation are so...

Intel – Killing the Monkey

          ARM is looking less and less threatening to Intel. Thanks to the blunder that is Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM), ARM has made no...

Intel – Dull, but right

          The floundering challenge of ARM reduces pressure for Intel to do anything radical. Intel has announced the appointment of Brian Krzanich as CEO of Intel...

Windows on ARM – Blue Phoenix

(RFM will return on Wednesday April 3rd)           Windows RT in its current form looks doomed.  When Samsung pulls its RT products, everyone will and I...

MWC 2013 Day 4 – Missing Persons

            At this year’s show, what was missing is actually much more interesting. It was all downhill from Monday, with very little news being announced...

LTE – Rough patches

          LTE has great promise but it is still very immature. Everyone seems very excited by the prospect of LTE and how much it will add...

ARM, MIPS and IMG – Reducing RISC

          With ARM becoming an ever more dominant force in the world of microprocessors, the fate of its erstwhile competitor MIPS has long been uncertain. That...