SiBeam, a developer of millimeter wave chipsets and platforms, has received a strategic investment from Panasonic and Samsung for the continued development of SiBeam’s WirelessHD semiconductor products, reports EE Times. SiBeam’s CMOS chipsets operate in the 60-GHz band and transfer data at up to 4-Gbits per second. They are designed for the streaming of uncompressed and

Gregory A Quirk at EE Times tested the data loading speed of the top 5 smartphones and the BlackBerry Bold was the fastest followed by T-Mobile HTC G1, Android, Apple iPhone 3G, LG Dare, and the Samsung Instinct. They contend that the BlackBerry Bold won because it has of the Cypress Semiconductor CYWB0124AB West Bridge peripheral controller. It provides a direct connection of peripherals and crea...

WiQuest Communications officially closed its doors on Oct 31, the first of perhaps several casualties to fall among ultrawideband chip designers, says EE Times. The Allen, Texas, company employed about 120 people focused on the wireless USB protocol. At least a dozen mainly venture-backed companies have been pursuing UWB for uses such as wireless USB links

I wish RIM would not schedule conferences during Jewish Holidays or else I would have gone… On the other hand Rick Merritt of EE Times provided some very interesting facts in his recap of the BlackBerry Developers Conference. Most of it was more detailed then what I have been hearing elsewhere but not surprising. Like

Fujitsu Microelectronics and Cisco are teaming for a multi-vendor demonstration of video streaming using mobile WiMAX with beamforming, says EE Times. The demonstration is scheduled for WiMAX World , which takes place from September 30 in Chicago. It will utilize Cisco’s BWX300 WiMAX base station and Fujitsu’s USB client. In the demonstration, multiple video streaming and ftp

EE Times says Mobile TV may be moving away from cellular operators and moving into broadcast television — but only in Europe. The International Broadcast Conference (IBC) 2008 indicate that consumers could dump carriers like Verizon and AT&T in Europe where they have a decent (DVB-T) digital television standard. A host of mobile TV chip companies demonstrated

The Intel Developer Forum runs Aug. 19-21, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (press kit and blog). Intel is using its annual developer forum in San Francisco as a launching pad for its 45nm Nehalem processors, notes EE Times. The company’s first desktop chips, branded Intel Core … Read Original Post

The Intel Developer Forum runs Aug. 19-21, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (press kit and blog). Intel is using its annual developer forum in San Francisco as a launching pad for its 45nm Nehalem processors, notes EE Times. The company’s first desktop chips, branded Intel Core i7 processors, and initial energy-efficient,

In an EE Times Asia report today, Qualcomm made the first data call using the new High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) protocol. The company claims speeds of 28Mbps down and 11Mbps up, with further enhancements coming soon that would bump downloads to 42-84Mbps and uploads to 23Mbps. The speeds seen during the test fulfill Qualcomm's commitment to HSPA+, albeit a year late. Current HSPA speeds to

Celeno Communications, a startup designing a variant of Wi-Fi chips geared for video, has closed a $16 million funding round led by Cisco Systems, reports EE Times. Celeno is currently sampling a 5 GHz chip set for carrying video at distances up to 120 feet, according to the company. The new …