Vodafone develops flexible radio hardware for 4G and IoT

Vodafone is moving into mobile network hardware development. The mobile operator will work with Guildford-based chipset firm Lime Microsystems to develop software-defined cellular radio platforms that support the radio access network (RAN) for 4G and NB and IoT. Vodafone and Lime demonstrated a low cost radio at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. ...

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Car manufacturers lobby China on EVs

Car manufacturers’ trade associations have asked the China government to relax some of its EV regulations. The request has come from the American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) and the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA). China says it wants one fifth of all cars ...

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GloFo and Verisilicon developing highly integrated FD-SOI cellular modem

In Q4, Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon intend to tape out a cellular modem test chip for low-power wide area (LPWA) networks which integrates baseband, power management, RF radio and front-end, combining both Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M capabilities and fabbed  on a  22nm FD-SOI process. LPWA technology takes advantage of the existing LTE spectrum and mobile infrastructure, ...

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PLAT4M Si photonics programme completed

The EU FP7 Si photonics supply chain development project PLAT4M has now been completed, says Leti. Si photonics has long been expected to bring substantial breakthroughs in very high speed data communications, telecommunications and supercomputing. In addition, it is one of the most promising industrial-production candidates because of its potential for large-scale and low-cost production ...

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