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Samsung planning WiMAX & LTE chipsets to avoid royalties
SlashGear —
... but by its own admission WiMAX is as much as five years ahead in maturity.
Nonetheless, Young Cho Chi, senior vice president of strategic planning for Samsung’s telecom division, believes LTE will eventually be more broadly used than WiMAX, hence their support of both technologies. Samsung already produces application processors and of course is a significant player in memory chip production, both key aspects to today’s media-rich mobile devices.
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Samsung to Develop Own WiMAX and LTE?
Mobile Whack —
... looks like Samsung , as a cell phone manufacturer, doesn’t want to pay any royalties for WiMAX and LTE so the maker will develop its own WiMAX and LTE. Samsung has previously declared it wants to launch handsets that will have WiMAX and/or LTE support. But with the current worldwide economical crisis, it’s no wonder that Samsung wants to develop its own chipsets. It might make a profit of it as other companies might be interested in these chipsets too. via GigaOm Tags: LTE , Mobile News , Portable Devices , Samsung , ...
Samsung growing its own 4G chipsets
Engadget Mobile —
... in sample quantities to both its own phone guys and other companies, and LTE versions are on the way (though it's not clear whether the LTE stuff will be ready in time for their very first phone models to use the technology). Ultimately, Samsung hopes to shave costs and avoid a few pesky royalty payments by doing things in-house, and seeing how every single phone in a few years is going to need one of these two technologies on board, we'd say this is a good place to start. [Via GigaOM] Samsung growing its own 4G chipsets originally appeared on Engadget ...
Samsung fabricará sus propios chips 4G, WiMAX y LTE
Celularis —
... cada vez pagan más regalías a Qualcomm para poder usar equipos con esas tecnologías. Otro fabricante, Texas Instrument, proveedora de chips 4G, y Freescale, proveedora de procesadores para Apple, decidieron bajarse de esos proyectos y dejarán de fabricar en breve, o venderán sus operaciones.
De ésta forma Samsung prefiere empezar a fabricar sus propios chips y ahorrarse ese dinero invirtiéndolo en R&D. Vía GigaOm.
¿Buena jugada para Samsung, mal futuro para Qualcomm? ...
Samsung to Build Its Own WiMax, LTE Chips
Phone Scoop - Latest News —
... its own WiMax and LTE chips for cell phones and other devices, according to the EETimes. Samsung said the move is being taken, in part, to eliminate the licensing fees it pays to chipmaker Qualcomm. Getting rid of the licensing fees could reduce the cost of Samsung's handsets. Samsung already has a fabrication plant located in Texas, and is one of the world's largest suppliers of memory. Samsung did not provide any sort of timeline for the development and fabrication of these chips. more info at GigaOM ...
4G Steel Cage Match Gains New Entrant: Samsung the Spectacular [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... Samsung has enough of the Accounts Payable side of that coin, so they’re going to create their own chips to support WiMAX and LTE. They’ve been successful in the flash memory market and their ARM processor powers the iPhone, so surely they’ve got the mettle to create the silicon in this case. With the march towards LTE ...
Intel Follows the Crowd With Integrated Chips [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Along with this rivalry and new focus, Intel will go up against more competition than it may have ever faced before, from the likes of Texas Instruments, whose OMAP processor will be in the Palm Pre, and Samsung, which builds the brains for the iPhone and is also building its own radios (and could offer equally integrated chips). ...
Texas Instrument Places a Risky Mobile Bet [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... . Intel is even integrating its low-power Atom processor onto a chip with a radio for use in mobile devices. Samsung is also attempting to create a wireless radio — perhaps to go with it’s own application processor, which currently powers the iPhone. But TI said last year that it ...
