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Nvidia demos Cat 4 LTE-Advanced Modem

May 21st 2013

NVIDIA’s mobile processor for mainstream smartphones – Tegra 4i, which includes an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem, chewed through 150Mbps of LTE data in a demo this week at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas. First shown at Mobile World Congress in February at Cat 3 100mbps, this Tegra 4i demo is fully based on a software update – no new hardware, no new processor.

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EDITORIAL : Technology wins out over all

Techwatch May 8th 2013

Intel, GloFo, and TSMC battle for position as the market moves to mobile Big companies, big smart companies, have the ability to take a body block and keep going. Cash reserves, tons of engineers, and determination are their muscle. And like any company, they make false starts, and unsupportable claims. That delights the press, and short-siders, but doesn’t really add much to the ecosystem. This week Intel revealed its latest power core design, Silvermont, fabricated on its 22nm FinFET process, a variant of the 22nm process it started to use last year for Ivy Bridge, but adapted for use …

Technology’s dark side is getting brighter

One of the panels at SXSW that we didn’t actually see but really really wish we did was a debate between University of Michigan at Dearborn philosophy lecturer David Skrbina, billed as the Unabomber’s pen pal, and writer/philosopher Peter Ludlow from Northwestern University. As you might expect, Skrbina goes …Click here to read this blog entry

The Cult of Maker prays for a burst-resistant bubble

3D printing shows signs of resiliance Most of us at Jon Peddie Research are old enough to have witnessed more bubble moments in the tech industry than we care to recall. Like stock market bubbles (to which they are usually connected at the bubble-hip) tech bubbles start with hype, …Click here to read this blog entry

What goes around, comes around

Watch out, looks like bricks and mortar are coming around. Somewhere, some time or another I’m reasonably sure someone around here predicted the end of bricks and mortar, and just a few short years ago, as we rummaged the desolate aisles of failing record stores and bookstores, that day …Click here to read this blog entry

The Year of the Snake

Chinese New Year is a major celebration in the Bay Area. For at least a week in the city, the sound of fireworks is a day and night constant, and a casual walk downtown will almost certainly be complicated by hit and run Lion Dances. This year is the …Click here to read this blog entry

The lost fortnight

Maybe a 12-step program is called for It was a short little work trip. No real heavy lifting would be needed on the road, but a Windows device for ongoing projects would be nice, so I thought I’d take along the Windows 8 Surface RT device we’ve been sharing …Click here to read this blog entry