By Martin Rowe.
If you design wireless IoT devices, you focus on connectivity, battery life, and cost. While many IoT devices connect to LTE networks, LTE isn’t everywhere.
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Proof of Concept (PoC) that Demonstrates iSIM Capability to Support the Next Generation IoT Devices
By IoT Design Pro.
Soracom has announced the completion of Proof of Concept (PoC) that demonstrates integrated SIM (iSIM) capability designed to support the next generation of IoT devices.
Agricultural Tracking Solution Leads to Disposable Real-Time Locating Label
By Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal.
AT&T and Sony have teamed up to provide a solution to Bayer’s Crops Science Division consisting of an adhesive, disposable IoT label that transmits its identity and sensor data via a cellular network for a view into seeds and other goods moving through an international supply chain.
AT&T Enables Next Generation Global Mobile Asset Tracking with Smart Shipping Label
By AT&T.
Internet of Things Solution to Help Bring Full Visibility to Products Shipped Worldwide and Help Transform the Global Supply Chain Across Industries.
Murata teams with industry leaders to commercialize global LTE-M1/NB1 IoT solution to enable rapid deployment of new IoT products
By Murata.
In conjunction with Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony, formerly Altair Semiconductor), STMicroelectronics, and Truphone, Murata today introduced the availability of the Type 1SE module.
Telit Launches NE310L2 Series of NB-IoT Modules for Power- and Cost-Sensitive IoT Applications
By Telit.
The NE310L2 features best-in-class power consumption, optional 2G fallback, an ultra-compact footprint, and future integrated SIM support
Sony Semiconductor IL Announces Launch of New Low Power Cellular IoT Chipset for NB-IoT Networks – ALT1255
By IoT For All.
Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony), a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets, announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255, a new low-power NB2 chipset.
Sony Semiconductor Israel Introduces Low Power Cellular IoT Chipset for NB-IoT Networks
By everything RF.
Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony), a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets, announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255, a new low-power NB2 chipset.
Sony announces Altair ALT1255 5G-ready NB-IoT chipset with 2G fallback
By Jean-Luc Aufranc, CNX Software.
Sony Semiconductor Israel, previously known as Altair Semiconductor, has announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT (NB2) chipset.
Low Power and Security for IoT Chipset – EE Times Europe
By Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, EE Times Europe.
As IoT expands to include all types of connected “things”, many companies are providing several low power and connectivity chips to support the millions of devices.
LG U+ develops SIM-less tech for smart devices
By Shim Woo-hyun, The Korea Herald.
LG U+ announced Tuesday that the company and its global partners had developed a new technology enabling smart devices to work without SIM cards.
Skylo partners with Sony Semiconductor Israel for 5G NB-IoT over Satellite
By IANS, Prokerala.
Skylo, maker of the world’s most affordable and ubiquitous network that connects any machine or sensor, on Tuesday announced a partnership with Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony, formerly known as Altair Semiconductor).
Altair renamed as Sony Semiconductor Israel after being acquired four years ago
By Cho Mu-Hyun, ZDNet.
Altair Semiconductor has been renamed as Sony Semiconductor Israel, the company announced on Wednesday. It comes four years after the Israeli semiconductor company, founded by former Texas Instruments executives, was acquired for $212 million by the Japanese tech giant.
Constantly tracking anything, anywhere
By Dima Feldman and Aviv Castro, IoT Evolution World.
The Internet of Things is changing the shape of many businesses. Not only does the IoT herald in greater visibility of production asset effectiveness, improve operational efficiencies, and facilitate more informed decision making, it is also opening up new ways of doing business.
Connected Devices Have a Key Role to Play in an Era of Pandemics
By Igor Tovberg, everything RF.
Technology has a history of helping to track and treat viruses. And, with the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, people are rightly asking themselves how new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, and Big Data can be employed to slow down the proliferation of pandemics and avoid a future global health crisis.
Altair introduces iSIM and 2G support on its flagship product
By Pablo Valerio, IoT Times.
Obviously, it has been impossible to realize those meetings; the GSMA canceled the entire conference and exhibition.
We didn’t want to miss the opportunity to bring IoT Times readers the latest news about IoT solutions, including new chipsets, connectivity, security, 5G, and other relevant technologies.
Altair’s ALT1250 Cellular IoT Chipset Is Globally Certified
By LightReading.
HOD HASHARON, Israel — Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets, received its fifth operator certification of 2019 for its dual-mode cellular IoT Chipset, ALT1250, from Deutsche Telekom AG, one of the world’s leading mobile operators. The ALT1250 is now globally certified, with 15 carrier certifications dating back to 2018.
Insurance Companies Tap Modern Technology to Usher in an Era of Personalized Policies
By csfrankland, insurtech360.
Relying on technologies that deliver real-time data, insurance companies are tapping new revenue streams, even where there is no historical data. Devices are allowing for more accurate policies and competitive prices for traditional as well as emerging use cases.
Altair Semiconductor’s Cellular IoT Chipset Powers PassTime’s Revolutionary Automotive Tracking Device By Geospatial World
By Geospatial World
Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets, is providing the cellular IoT technology that powers the new PassTime Encore automotive tracking device. The device uses Altair’s cellular IoT chipset, the ALT1250.
Polte and Altair embed location services on cellular IoT chipset By GPS World
By GPS World
Altair Semiconductor integrates Polte’s Cloud Location over Cellular (C-LoC) technology with Altair’s ALT1250 dual-mode CAT-M& NB-IoT chipset.
NTT DoCoMo Validates Altair’s NB-IoT/LTE-M Chipset By Light Reading
By Light Reading
TROY, Mich. — Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets, has announced ALT1250’s validation for NB-IoT and CAT-M at NTT DOCOMO, INC. Following this announcement, the chipset is now active on the NTT DOCOMO network.
Altair Cellular IoT Chipset Certified to Operate on SoftBank’s NB-IoT Network By everything RF
By everything RF
Altair Semiconductor has received NB-IoT validation from SoftBank for its ALT1250 cellular IoT chipset. Following this announcement, the chipset is now active on SoftBank’s network in Japan.
Altair Semiconductor Has Become a Recognized Test Organization by the Global Certification Forum
By AZoM.com
Global Certification Forum (GCF) authorization of Altair’s cellular IoT laboratory has gained worldwide approval and can offer conformance testing services to third parties.
Israel-Based Sony Group Company Plays Leading Role in Internet of Things
By unitedwithisrael.org
“Our vision has changed what is possible for device makers that rely on us to connect millions of devices,” the Israeli company boasts.
Altair chipset powers LTE IoT services in Brazil
By Telecompaper.com
Altair Semiconductor said its ALT1250 dual-mode CAT-M/ NB-IoT chipset is powering the Asiatelco LM66 IoT module, which provides LTE connectivity for a range of connected devices, and agricultural systems for large-scale farming in Brazil.
Altair Semiconductor Showcases First Ever Successful Application of LTE LTE-M/NB-IoT Solution on 450 MHz
By IoT For All
Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets, has announced that its ALT1250 dual mode CAT-M/NB-IoT chipset can now operate on the 450 MHz spectrum.
ERM Partners with Altair on automotive IoT solutions
By Telematics Wire
Altair Semiconductor and ERM Advanced Telematics are joining hands to develop a new range of low-powered and installation-free automotive IoT solutions. Altair Semiconductor is a known provider of cellular IoT chipsets and ERM Advanced Telematics, an automotive technology and IoT solutions company.
ERM Telematics Taps Altair’s Cellular IoT Chipsets for Automotive IoT Solutions
By Ray Sharma – The Fast Mode
ERM Advanced Telematics, a global provider of automotive technology and IoT solutions has selected Altair‘s cellular IoT chipsets to develop a new range of low-powered and installation-free automotive IoT solutions.
The ability to reduce power consumption dramatically improves the user experience
By Pablo Valerio – IoT Times
Altair’s ilan reingold shares with iot times his vision of better iot devices, both for consumer and industrial applications, and how the company helps oems and integrators to deliver better connectivity and power savings.
MWC 2019 Show Floor Interview
By Mobile World Live
Ilan Reingold, VP Business Development and Marketing for Altair Semiconductor, explains the company’s vision as a designer of cellular IoT chipsets.
How Does an Icebox Pay for a Data Plan?
By Junko Yoshida – EE Times
Every chip company selling modem ICs into cellular IoT devices must worry how their customers — device manufacturers — expect to make money on IoT.
Altair Semiconductor to present mobile IoT products at MWC
By Telecom Paper
Altair said it will present Altair-powered IoT modules and devices with partners at MWC in Barcelona, including, Sierra Wireless, Sercomm, Deutsche Telekom and Truphone.
Altair Expects Its All-in-One Cellular IoT Solution to Drive Explosive Growth in 2019
By Everything RF
Altair Semiconductor’s Cellular IoT chipset, the ALT1250 has now been integrated into more than 10 modules. Moreover, the company sees significant growth in its IoT chipset shipment volume, expecting to ship millions of units throughout 2019.
CES 2019 Recap: Exclusive Interviews With 5 IoT Leaders
By Eric Conn – IoT for All
IoT For All held exclusive interviews with major IoT players including AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Vodafone, Comcast, and Sony to learn more about what they envision for 2019 and beyond.
Hands On: Garmin Adds LTE to Vivoactive 3 Music Watch
By Brenda Stolyar – PC Mag
The latest version of the Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music is the company’s first device with LTE connectivity. It also comes with a few new safety features. We go hands-on at CES.
Garmin has released a few iterations of its Garmin Vivoactive 3 fitness tracker, but its latest version of the Vivoactive 3 Music is the company’s first device with LTE connectivity. It also comes with a few new safety features.
Altair teams up with Japanese firm JIG-SAW to provide chip-based comms and controls
By James Blackman - Enterprise IoT Insights Israeli IoT chipset manufacturer Altair Semiconductor has struck a deal with Japanese company JIG-SAW to develop LTE-enabled sensors for a range of industrial use cases, including warehouse...
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Altair and JIG-SAW to Develop LTE-Enabled Sensors for Industrial IoT
- Everything RF Altair Semiconductor has partnered with JIG-SAW, a leading provider of A&A (Auto sensor-ing and Auto Direction) solutions for IoT, to develop LTE-enabled sensors for a wide variety of global industrial IoT applications. The...
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Altair Semiconductor and JIG-SAW Partner on LTE-Enabled Sensors for IIoT
By Ken Briodagh - IoT Evolution World Altair Semiconductor, a provider of cellular IoT chipsets, recently announced it has partnered with JIG-SAW, a provider of Auto sensing and Auto Direction (A&A) solutions for IoT,...
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Sierra Wireless LPWA Modules Certified for LTE-M/NB-IoT Networks in Japan and USA
- Everything RF The AirPrime HL78 LTE-M/NB-IoT embedded wireless modules from Sierra Wireless are now certified to operate on both KDDI’s LTE-M network in Japan and AT&T’s LTE-M network in the US. Sierra Wireless’ modules provide exceptional low-power performance that will dramatically extend...
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IoT roundup: Startups, big carriers flex their IoT muscles and California legislation
By Jon Gold - Network World Carriers double up on IoT Vodafone announced earlier this month that it would double the size of its European NB-IoT network, making it more widely available than ever for use...
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HERE, Altair Partner to Enable IoT Tracking
By Ray Sharma - The Fast Mode HERE Technologies, a global leader in mapping and location services, and Altair Semiconductor to integrate HERE tracking and positioning software into Altair’s ALT1250 dual-mode LTE Cat-M1/NB-IoT chipset. The synergies between HERE’s...
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AT&T to intro embedded IoT SIMs in LTE-M modules in first half of 2019
By James Blackman - Enterprise IoT Insights AT&T will make IoT modules with integrated SIMs available on its LTE-M network in the first half of 2019. The carrier is working with German internet-of-things (IoT)...
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AT&T teams with G+D, Altair on integrated SIM for IoT
By Monica Alleven - FierceWireless AT&T is working with vendors on a strategy to enable IoT modules to power smaller, less costly and more energy-efficient devices. The operator announced a relationship with Giesecke+Devrient Mobile...
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Chip maker Altair integrates new small-antenna tech to miniaturise IoT devices
By James Blackman - Enterprise IoT Insights Israeli IoT chipset manufacturer Altair Semiconductor has announced a new small antenna technology to enable the development of miniaturised IoT and wearable devices without sacrificing coverage or...
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The Rise of LTE for IoT
Ray Le Maistre - Light Reading Light Reading's Editor in Chief, Ray Le Maistre, visits Altair Semiconductor's headquarters to gain insight into the benefits of LTE for IoT, discuss IoT applications and hear about Altair's dual-mode...
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Will IoT’s growth hit a chipset wall?
By Bob Emmerson - IoT Now Forecasts of the number of IoT devices that will be deployed in the foreseeable future indicate healthy growth, but there are very wide variations and the “experts” employ...
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Japan’s First Commercial eDRX Technology Implementation to Use Altair’s IoT Chipset
- Everything RF NTT DOCOMO has completed the chipset interoperability testing of the Altair ALT1160 Cat-1 chipset for the first commercial implementation of extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) technology in Japan. Altair has commenced shipping of the ALT1160, featuring Ultra Low Power Consumption...
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Altair and Ecrio to Deliver VoLTE Solution Over LTE-M
- Everything RF Ecrio, a provider of LTE real-time communications client software, and Altair Semiconductor have joined hands to deliver a VoLTE solution using Cat-M1. Ecrio’s iota, the highly optimized VoLTE software for IoT, will be embedded into...
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World’s Smallest And Lowest Power LTE-M1/NB1 IoT Solution
- Wireless Design Magazine Murata has selected Altair Semiconductor’s dual-mode CAT-M1/NB1 chipset and STMicroelectronics’ STM32 MCU to develop its cellular IoT solutions. These flexible and optimized solutions enable LTE connectivity for multiple vertical markets,...
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Altair, Ecrio Partner to Deliver VoLTE Over LTE-M; Certified on KDDI’s Network
By Ray Sharma - The Fast Mode Ecrio, the leading provider of LTE real-time communications client software, and Altair Semiconductor, a leading provider of LTE chipsets, announced their partnership to deliver VoLTE over LTE-M....
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Murata teams with Altair Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics to deliver the world’s smallest and lowest power LTE-M/NB1 IoT solutions
- Defining Electronics Murata, a world-leading manufacturer of electronics components and solutions, today announced that it has selected Altair Semiconductor’s dual-mode CAT-M1/NB1 chipset and STMicroelectronics’ STM32 MCU and ST33 Secure MCU to develop its...
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Ericsson takes on diabetes monitoring with IoT solution
Bluetooth and LTE will provide connectivity for IoT wearable By Juan Pedro Tomás - Enterprise IoT Insights Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, has partnered with Ericsson and Sony Mobile to demonstrate a...
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Sony and Ericsson team up to develop a wearable for on-the-go diabetes tracking
By Conor Allison - Wareable Sony and Ericsson have teamed up to develop a wearable concept that helps diabetics monitor their glucose levels on the go. The prototype is able to track the user's...
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SONY AND ERICSSON JOIN FORCES TO DEVELOP WEARABLE FOR DIABETES MONITORING
By Tyrone Stewart - Mobile Marketing Magazine Sony and Ericsson have teamed up with LTE chipset provider Altair Semiconductor to develop a concept for a wearable that helps diabetics monitor their glucose levels. The wristband...
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Sony to Demo LTE-M-Ready Diabetes Monitoring Wristband
By Ryan Black - Healthcare Analytics News Sony is pairing with its old pal Ericsson and its chipmaker subsidiary Altair Semiconductor to develop an LTE-M-enabled diabetes monitoring wristband. The trio will debut a prototype of...
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Five Key Predictions for IoT in 2018
By Altair’s Ilan Reingold for Wireless Week While the past few years have laid the groundwork for widespread IoT adoption, 2017 revealed the multitude of outstanding issues that must be resolved for the vision...
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LTE-M and NB-IoT adoption — a global view
By Altair's Ilan Reingold for Enterprise IoT Insights Battle for adoption As the demand for worldwide IoT rapidly rises, so does the need for low power, low-cost and low throughput cellular devices. LTE-M and...
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Sierra Wireless integrates GNSS, SIM, security into multi-mode LPWA modules
Tracy Cozzens - GPS World Sierra Wireless, a provider of fully integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has introduced multi-mode, low-power wide-area (LPWA) cellular modules. The modules are targeted at rapidly growing...
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AT&T approves Altair’s integrated LTE-M chipsets to power new class of IoT modules and devices
Zenobia Hedge - IoT Now Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, reports that the ALT1210 LTE-M chipset has successfully completed AT&T’s ADAPT chipset validation process. The ADAPT validation improves time-to-market and reduces the cost associated with...
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AT&T approves Altair Semiconductor’s ALT1210 LTE-M chipset for its network
James Bourne - IoT Tech News Altair Semiconductor’s ALT1210 LTE-M chipset has been approved by AT&T to run on its IoT network, the company has announced. The move ‘furthers Altair’s commitment to AT&T and...
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AT&T Approves Altair ALT1210 LTE-M Chipset on IoT Network
Ken Briodagh - IoT Evolution Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, recently announced that its ALT1210 LTE-M chipset has successfully completed the AT&T ADAPT chipset validation process, which process is designed to improve...
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#MWCA: Altair Semiconductor on IoT Connectivity
Martha DeGrasse - RCR Wireless Martha DeGrass, Editor at Enterprise IoT Insights speaks with Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP Marketing at Altair Semiconductor on IoT connectivity and the standards of these upcoming technologies. https://youtu.be/XYkJoTvSnyY...
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LTE-M Cleaning Up in NB-IoT’s Absence, Says Altair Co-Founder
Iain Morris - Light Reading NB-IoT technology could end up with a smaller market than its backers were originally targeting because of unexpected competition from the higher-bandwidth LTE-M standard, according to a leading chipmaker....
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Ericsson introduces ‘massive IoT’ network services suite
Corinne Reichert - ZDNet Ericsson has unveiled a suite of network services for "massive Internet of Things" (IoT) applications, in addition to launching software that enables voice over LTE (VoLTE) support across Cat-M1 IoT...
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Narrowband cellular IoT chipset handles GNSS functions
Aimee Kalnoskas - EE World Altair Semiconductor demonstrated GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) functionality integrated in its new ALT1250 narrowband CAT-M1 and NB1 (NB-IoT) chipset. The ALT1250 is the only narrowband cellular IoT chipset in the...
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Data Security in the Age of the IoT
By Altair's Avishay Shraga for ISE Magazine 3 Threats, 4 Challenges, and Unlimited Opportunities As the Internet of Things continues to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds, it brings with it the...
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Altair Announces Deals with T-Mobile, Geotab
Ken Briodagh - IoT Evolution In a pair of announcements, Altair Semiconductor, provider of LTE chipsets, has made public a pair of strategic deals, with Geotab to power vehicle GPS and with T-Mobile to...
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Altair debuts LTE-M1, NB1-based cellular IoT IC
Junko Yoshida - EE Times Although Altair is late coming to the LTE-M/NB1 market, it’s set to leapfrog the others with the new ALT1250. Is this the year for service providers to take the plunge...
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Altair unveils miniature chipset platform designed to support future IoT applications
Sheetal Kumbhar - IoT Now Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, has introduced the ALT1250, a narrowband CAT-M1 and NB1 (NB-IoT) chipset that aims to redefine the cellular IoT connectivity space, featuring global band...
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Altair Semiconductor introduces narrowband LTE-M and NB1 chipset
James Atkinson - Wireless Magazine ALT1250 chipset is less than 100mm2 in size and features a level of integration which eliminates most of the external components required to design a cellular IoT module Altair Semiconductor...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Snags LTE Support with Help of New Add-on Chip
Agam Shah An Altair LTE Category-1 chipset will attach to the top of the Raspberry Pi 3 board for long-distance communications Raspberry Pi 3 today has only Wi-Fi connectivity, but soon it will also be...
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Verizon, AT&T Both Claim LTE LTE-M Firsts for Internet of Things
By Monica Alleven The race to commercialize LTE LTE-M is on, with both AT&T and Verizon declaring firsts as they try to outmaneuver the other in wooing customers to their cellular standards-based technology for the...
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Reader Forum: Myths and Trends in Cellular IoT
By Eran Eshed, VP of WW Sales and Marketing, Altair Semiconductor Confused by the various categories of cellular IoT connection options? Altair looks to provide some clarity Recent developments in standards and changes in terminology...
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Altair Snags Japanese Certification for 4G LTE
By Ken Briodagh Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, recently announced that its FourGee-3800 chipset has successfully completed a chipset Interoperability Test on the NTT DOCOMO network in Japan. NTT is Japan’s largest mobile services...
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LTE gets ready to fight against proprietary tech for the IoT
By Monica Alleven While cellular-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are still being finalized in the standards process, non-cellular solutions like those promoted by Ingenu, Sigfox and members of the LoRa Alliance are catching a...
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Altair Semiconductor: On the Sony acquisition and sustainable IoT
By James Bourne MWC It is safe to say that the critical buzz around chip and LTE technology provider Altair Semiconductor has rarely been higher. Three weeks after the news broke that Altair was to...
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Chipsets Driving IoT Adoption in Industrial, Consumer Markets
HetNet Happenings Episode 45 looks at chipsets with Altair Semiconductor, Imagination Technologies and Nvidia By Sean Kinney The 2016 CES event placed a huge emphasis on the “Internet of Things” and how IoT technology is...
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Single-mode LTE chips Trends in single-mode LTE chips: Q&A with Altair
By Kelly Hill With the emergence of the “Internet of Things” ecosystem, single-mode LTE chips have gained momentum beyond broadband connectivity. Altair Semiconductor has been focusing on single-mode LTE chips for more than a decade...
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Altair’s Cat-1 LTE Chips to Enable New Use Cases
By Diana Goovaerts LAS VEGAS – A new Cat-1 LTE chip from Israeli start-up Altair Semiconductor will help open doors to new Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, the company’s co-founder Eran Eshed told Wireless Week...
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LPWA vs LTE: the differences explained
By Sheetal Kumbhar As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes larger and larger, the list of communications protocols vying to power the extensive wireless wide area networks (WAN) that the infrastructure will require grows both...
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Cellular Simplifies its IoT Road Map
By Rick Merritt LTE Category 0 gets nulled SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Category 0 option for 4G LTE cellular has fallen to the pruner’s shears. It is the latest alternative to be weeded out...
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AT&T, Ericsson and Altair Tackle IoT Power Consumption
By Andrew Berg AT&T, Ericsson and chipset company Altair are collaborating on a more power-efficient Internet of Things (IoT). The companies announced yesterday demonstration of an LTE Power Saving Mode on commercial LTE Internet of...
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Ericsson Software Upgrade Allows For 10 Year IoT Battery Life On LTE
By Steve McCaskill Ericsson, AT&T and Altair will show how a sensor can last for ten years on a commercial chipset and existing LTE network Ericsson claims to have developed a software upgrade that allows for...
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AT&T, Ericsson to Demo 10-year IoT Battery Life
By Joey Jackson Battery life has become an increasing concern with the growth of the “Internet of Things.” Many IoT devices are not located near a battery source, so they need long-lasting batteries to make...
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Using LTE for the Internet of Things
By Carl Weinschenk The Internet of Things (IoT) will demand that a number of new standards be developed and existing ones tweaked to squeeze it comfortably into the existing infrastructure of the IT and telecom worlds....
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Altair, Sequans: Benefits Of LTE Cat 0 For Internet of Things Can Be Achieved Without Cat 0 Chipsets
By Phil Goldstein LAS VEGAS--The debate over what is the best low-power wireless communications protocol technology to power millions and eventually billions of Internet of Things devices heated up at Super Mobility this week. LTE...
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Israel’s Altair Semiconductor bets big on Reliance Jio’s 4G rollout; hopes to maximise global revenue
By Danish Kahn NEW DELHI: Israel-based chipmaker Altair Semiconductor sees significant growth coming on the back of planned commercial rollouts by Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm, the only pan-India 4G player, which has been using...
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IoT Security: Altair Semiconductor Explains Why It’s Uniquely Positioned for the Job
By Paula Bernier The Internet of Things is expected to change life as we know it – making our businesses, cities, and homes more efficient; our energy, industrial, and transportation systems safer; and our people...
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The Rise of Smart Cities: Smart Homes Will Lead the Push to Over One Billion Connected Things This Year
By Eran Eshed Just a few years ago, the concept of a smart city—or one that uses wireless technology to increase communication between various sectors, city planners and consumers—seemed like it was light years away...
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Altair rolls low-power 4G chip aimed at wearables, IoT
By Julien Happich Altair rolls low-power 4G chip aimed at wearables, IoT Altair Semiconductor has developed a line-up of MIPS-based chips to deliver 4G connectivity to wearables and other IoT devices at particularly low power budgets....
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Low-power LTE 4G modem targets IoT, uses MIPS architecture
By Julien Happich Altair Semiconductor has designed a new family of MIPS-based chips to provide 4G connectivity to wearables and other IoT devices at minimal power consumption. The company has optimised the FourGee modems for...
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The Awesome Potential of Geofencing for M2M
By- Eran Eshed All of you parents out there, I want you to close your eyes and imagine the following scenario. Your teenage son or daughter is getting ready to go out for the evening...
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4G LTE to be an Essential Part of India’s Smart City Project
By Eran Eshed- According to the United Nations, 54 percent of the global population lives in urban areas. This reality is not temporary. Urban dwellers are expected to total 66 percent of the world population...
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LTE: The next frontier for the connected car
Connected Car Tech By Eran Eshed In an essay nearly 20 years ago, Bill Gates famously declared that “content is king”. Since that essay was published, if you had a nickel for every time you...
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The Wait Is Over: Altair Brings Affordable, Low Power, Robust LTE Connectivity to IoT
IOT Evolution By Paula Bernier It has been clear for some time that a low-cost, high-performance connectivity option for the Internet of Things is on the horizon. According to Altair Semiconductor, that time is now....
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LTE for the IoT: Interview with Eran Eshad, Altair Semiconductor
By Anne Fisher, Managing Editor A tough nut to crack has been an apt description of achieving low-power and standards-based long range IoT/M2M technology, but LTE chipsets may be just the tool to crack the...
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SanDisk Invests in LTE-Only Altair
By Peter Clark Flash storage company SanDisk Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.) has announced that it has invested in Altair Semiconductor Ltd., a privately held developer of LTE-only chipsets founded in 2005. The investment was described as...
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Altair Semiconductor Addresses IoT with LTE-Specific Solutions
By Paula Bernier Altair Semiconductor, a chipset company that’s been in business for a decade, offers LTE-only chipsets. This year the company aims to disrupt the M2M/IoT space with the introduction of an optimized LTE-only...
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MWC 2015: Chip vendors gear up to boost mobile user experience
By Telecom Lead Staff Mobile World Congress (MWC 2015) is getting ready to see the live action from chip majors such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, Altair Semiconductor, etc. The following are the latest announcements...
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Imagination and Altair Detail Growing Market for LTE Chips with Embedded MIPS-based CPU’s
By Tom Dawson Mobile World Congress might be a show that’s dominated by consumer products like Samsung’s and HTC’s smartphones launches, but it’s also a trade show. One where new technologies are demonstrated and...
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Taking the IIoT Beyond WiFi: Consider 4G LTE
By Alan Earls Will 4G be the future of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)? Well, probably at least in part. There are plenty of “things” that aren’t located in places that are easy to...
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LTE AT&T gives LTE-only a boost
By Martha Degrasse Chip news from Altair, Broadcom and MediaTek AT&T gives LTE-only a boost Israel’s Altair Semiconductor said today that its FourGee-3800/6300 chipset has completed AT&T’s ADAPT chipset validation. Altair makes LTE-only chipsets, which...
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Three key ways that wearables can change lives
By Eran Eshed Wearabletech-Unless you spent the past month underneath a rock, you have probably heard enough buzz surrounding the Apple Watch’s unveiling to last a lifetime. Apple’s foray into the smartwatch space is...
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Altair Semiconductor Completes AT&T ADAPT Chipset Validation
By Casey Houser Mobility Tech Zone-Validation of a tech product is essential to the growth of a product. When it comes to the proliferation of 4G LTE mobile technologies, the validation of chipsets becomes an...
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LTE for IoT
By M&E Tech Staff M&E TECH-May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Eran Eshed from Altair presented talking points about cellular infrastructure for the IoT. The greatest challenges are in overcoming the perceptions that LTE...
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The smart medical home can lower healthcare costs
By Eran Eshed On top of the potentially massive economic benefits these new-age homes may provide, they will also help at-risk individuals avoid medical scares. Rising healthcare costs are a concern in many areas of...
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Altair Semiconductor says will bring 4G network to small devices
By Ari Rabinovitch * Company considering an IPO on Nasdaq * New chipset to impact sales at start of 2016 * Company has raised more than $150 million JERUSALEM, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Altair Semiconductor...
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New Altair Chipsets Can Expedite LTE’s Application for IoT
By Paula Bernier Altair Semiconductor today officially unveiled new CAT-0 and CAT-1 LTE-only chipsets, which the vendor says will enable carriers to use LTE in Internet of Things deployments two years earlier than they originally...
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LTE IoT Specs Anticipated in Chips
By Jessica Lipsky Altair aims to get jump on 4G MTC standard OAKLAND, Calif. -- Altair Semiconductor hopes to drive the machine-to-machine (M2M) market toward 4G LTE with two chip sets coming out ahead of...
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The Peggy Smedley Show: Episode 364 -The Future of LTE
The Peggy Smedley Show Episode #364 The Evolution of Automated Cars Andrew Whydell, director of product planning and global electronics, TRW, discusses the explosion of interest in automated driving in the automotive industry and the...
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SanDisk Invests in IoT Ecosystem
Connected World Magazine Following mergers, acquisitions, and investments in the M2M and IoT (Internet of Things) space can be more than interesting—it can be telling. A new strategic investment can suggest a trend in the...
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SanDisk invests in Altair Semiconductor
telecompaper SanDisk has acquired a stake in Altair Semiconductor, a developer of LTE chipsets. SanDisk's investment through SanDisk Ventures will help the company further develop the integration of flash storage in LTE devices, supporting the 'Internet...
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FirstNews Briefs: SanDisk, Telefónica, MobiTV, Johnson Health Tech, C Spire
Wireless Week SanDisk Corporation today announced that the company’s venture arm, SanDisk Ventures, has invested in Altair Semiconductor, a developer of single-mode LTE chipsets. Altair’s products bring 4G LTE Internet connectivity to tablets, netbooks, USB...
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SanDisk Expands its Commitment to the ‘Connected Device’ Market with a Strategic Investment in Altair Semiconductor
SanDisk Ventures Invests in the Leading Developer of High-Performance, Single-Mode LTE Chipsets MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that the company’s venture arm, SanDisk Ventures, has invested...
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Forget Black Friday, this LTE-enabled Asus Chromebook is available for $200 right now
Digital Trends By Adrian Diaconescu Before it sets out to break laptop affordability records with rumored $150 Chromebooks, Asus is granting you the ability to get LTE connectivity on the cheap. With little to no...
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Asus begins selling its first LTE Chromebook for $200 on a two-year Verizon contract
9to5 Google by Jordan Kahn It’s not the first LTE Chromebook, but it’s the first from Asus to offer cellular connectivity with sales of the device quietly kicking off at Best Buy and other retailers...
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Five Tips for selecting an LTE chipset partner
Electronics Weekly by Eran Eshed LTE is quickly becoming the global standard for next-generation wireless networks. The GSA reported that 260 operators had commercially launched LTE services in 95 countries in 2013, and forecasted that...
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Connected cars and LTE: Where are they heading?
Telecom Lead The connected car ecosystem is quickly expanding and everyone wants a piece of the action. From usage-based insurance, to built-in infotainment systems, the applications and potential value-added services in the connected car market...
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LTE Makes Smart Metering Even Smarter
POWERGRID INTERNATIONAL by Eran Eshed, In a world where everything is becoming smart, from smartphones and smart watches to smart homes and smart cities, having metering systems that require on-site readings by technicians is passé...
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Altair: LTE the Right Choice for M2M & IOT
TMCnet by Rich Tehrani Some of my early conversations about the M2M and IoT space with carriers had them explaining to me how they love these growing markets because they allow their legacy networks to...
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Don’t count out cellular. It could still win with the internet of things
The Internet of Things Show - Gigaom By Stacey Higginbotham The industrial internet will use cellular. For real! That’s the take from this week’s podcast guest, who joins us after Kevin Tofel and I digest the...
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LTE in M2M? Why Single-Mode LTE Answers the Call
Telecom Engine By Eran Eshed, Altair Semiconductor The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing and exciting ecosystem comprised of an array of different technologies. Currently, IoT networks are heterogeneous, with short-range, mid-range, and long-range...
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Japan’s LTE and IoT opportunities
Telecom Asia by Eran Eshed Japan has been synonymous with innovation for decades. Some would say technological leadership is in the Japanese DNA. The Japanese have led the way in cellular technology too: The first...
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Low cost LTE could boost operators’ IoT play
Mobile World Live By Steve Costello NEW BLOG: A quick look back at Mobile World Livecontent from this year shows a growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the sexed-up sibling of M2M that will...
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3.5 GHz: Debate continues on spectrum sharing, band plan and unlicensed use
Fierce Wireless Tech By Tammy Parker Comments and presentations are rolling in to the FCC regarding its plan to use spectrum-sharing techniques to open up the 3.5 GHz band for wireless broadband use. The...
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12 Startups in Israel You Should Know About
Business2Community By BusinessVibes Israel is home to over 4,000 startups and is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. Here is 12 reasons why: Altair Semiconductor The world is transitioning from...
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Russia’s Yota Devices in talks with Rel Jio, Bharti Airtel & Aircel to provide WiFi dongles and routers
The Economic Times Yota Devices, a Russian vendor of products which support 4G LTE, is betting big on the Indian market and is in talks with operators including Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Aircel...
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Elija TF9300 3.5GHz LTE Tablet
ecoustics Altair Semiconductor and First International Computer, Inc. (FIC) announced the world’s first 3.5GHz LTE-enabled tablet — the Elija TF9300 9.7-inch Android tablet. The device connects to LTE networks using Altair’s newest single-mode LTE chipset, FourGee-3800/6300, which supports...
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The 20 Hottest Startups From Israel In 2014
Business Insider By Julie Bort Altair Semiconductor: $124 million raised Altair Semiconductor Altair Semiconductor makes chips that connect mobile devices to 4G data networks. Because Altair's chips don't support 3G at all, only 4G,...
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Altair Semiconductor raises another $25M in its quest to make dirt cheap LTE chips
VentureBeat Investors are betting even more money on LTE-only chips. Israeli LTE chip firm Altair Semiconductor has raised a fresh $25 million, led by new investor Jerusalem Global Ventures, the company told VentureBeat. The round, which closed in...
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Altair Aims to Lower Cost of LTE Solutions: Eshed
Bloomberg TV May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Eran Eshed, co-founder of Altair, discusses the company's 4G LTE chipsets with Elliott Gotkine on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Does M2M Need LTE?
Light Reading By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, Light Reading LTE-focused chip designer Altair Semiconductor is betting that a 4G-only modem is a big part of the future of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. M2M sensors, RFID badges, and...
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HP Chromebook 11 LTE Review and Ratings
Computer Shopper When we tested it in October 2013, we called the original HP Chromebook 11 our favorite Chromebook, praising its fit and finish and impressive IPS screen—but noting that, like other Chromebooks, it was...
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Encore’s Routers Certified for Use on Verizon’s 4G LTE Network
TMCnet Encore Networks, a leader in M2M solutions for fixed and wireless communications, announced that Encore's EN-4000™ family of routers has been certified for use on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. By utilizing the...
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5 Questions to Ask an LTE Chip Maker
Wireless Design and Development By Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP Marketing and Business Development at Altair Semiconductor One of the components of your future device is a cellular chip. There are many chip providers from which...
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Chip news from Sequans, Renesas, Intel and Texas Instruments
RCR Wireless Martha Degrasse Sequans wins contracts for LTE-only modems LTE-only modems are gaining traction on both sides of the Pacific, with China Telecom announcing today that its upcoming LTE launch will include devices powered...
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HP Chromebook 11 (Verizon LTE) Review
PC Magazine By Brian Westover When we first saw the HP Chromebook 11 ($279.00 at HP.com) late last year, there was plenty to love, from the sleek, well-built design to the gorgeous In-Plane Switching (IPS) display. It put...
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MWC 2014: Altair to supply LTE chip to BEC Technologies
Telecom Lead By: editor@telecomlead.com At the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2014), Altair Semiconductor said it will supply single-mode LTE chipsets to BEC Technologies for installing in routers, gateways, industrial M2M and public safety wireless devices. Altair’s technology enables...
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Altair is Now BEC’s Primary LTE Chipset Provider
Machine to Machine Technology News By Meenakshi Shankar, Contributor Edited by Rachel Ramsey Altair Semiconductor, a company specializing in single-mode LTE solutions, is partnering with BEC Technologies, the North American subsidiary of Billion Electric Co....
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Altair starts new single mode LTE-A baseband processor
GTI The single-mode LTE chipset developer Altair Semiconductor has announced the availability of its newest LTE-Advanced baseband processor -- FourGee-3802, Telecompaper reports. The new chip is 3GPP-Release 10 compliant and is based on Altair's patented...
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Baseband-процессор Altair FourGee-3802 с поддержкой агрегации несущих 20+20 МГц имеет пропускную способность 300 Мбит/с (LTE-Advanced Category 6)
IXBT (Russia) Компания Altair Semiconductor объявила о доступности однорежимного baseband-процессора LTE-Advanced, получившего обозначение FourGee-3802. Микросхема, соответствующая требованиям спецификаций 3GPP Release 10, построена на запатентованной Altair архитектуре Software Defined Radio (SDR) и программным путем может быть...
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Meaghan’s Minute: LTE Broadband Internet Access
Wireless Design & Development By Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development Today on Meaghan's Minute, brought to you by API technologies, coming straight from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Altair Semiconductor and WNC have launched a...
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WNC Launches 3.5GHz LTE-only Router Powered by Altair Semiconductor
Next Generation Communications (by TMCnet) By Michael Guta Telecommunications companies have been bidding billions of dollars in the past several years to acquire the right spectrum in order to deliver their services more efficiently. The...
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Altair launches LTE-Advanced single mode LTE chipset
ETTelecom.com (The Economic Times) NEW DELHI: Altair Semiconductor, the developer of high-performance, single-mode LTE chipsets, announced the availability of its newest LTE-Advanced baseband processor, the FourGee-3802. The new chip is compliant with 3GPP Release 10...
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Altair Touts Single Mode LTE Success, Will Focus on IoT
TMCnet By Rich Tehrani Single mode LTE is has gone from evangelism mode to commercial shipments according to Altair Semiconductor as they showed me the new Verizon seven-inch Android Ellipsis Tablet which retails for $249 with no...
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Altair launches newest single mode LTE-A baseband processor
telecompaper Developer of single-mode LTE chipsets, Altair Semiconductor has announced the availability of its newest LTE-Advanced baseband processor, the FourGee-3802. The new chip is compliant with 3GPP Release 10 specifications, is based on Altair's patented...
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Altair Rolls LTE-Advanced Chip
EE Times By: Zewde Yeraswork Altair Semiconductor announced an LTE-Advanced baseband processor in the run up to this month's Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The Four Gee 3802 is the Israeli company's third LTE...
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Altair adds single-mode LTE-Advanced processor
Telecom Lead By Telecom Lead Altair Semiconductor today announced its single-mode LTE-Advanced processor called the FourGee-3802. The telecom chip company said the new chip is compliant with 3GPP Release 10 specifications, and based on Altair’s...
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H-P Chromebook Points to Trends in Chips, Patents
The Wall Street Journal By Don Clark A visit to Best Buy sometimes brings insights about where manufacturers are placing their bets. One example is a Hewlett-Packard Chromebook that recently appeared in the store’s computer...
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Google puts fast Israeli 4G Chips in its newest notebook
Times of Israel By: David Shamah Altair Semiconductor, a small Israeli start-up, is ahead of Qualcomm in the race for the next big thing in cellular data communications An Israeli start-up is giving telecom giant...
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Curved displays for TVs, cellphones next big thing
CIOL By: Will Strauss Other LTE modem tidbits Altair has announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset has been selected to connect the new HP Chromebook 11.6" LTE as the first affordable Chromebook with 4G LTE connectivity,...
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HP Chromebook 11 with Verizon LTE now available for $379
Tech Spot By: Himanshu Arora HP's Chromebook 11 with built-in 4G LTE functionality is now available at Best Buy stores for $379. This is $100 more than the WiFi-only model, which is priced at $279. The 4G-capable...
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HP’s Chromebook 11 gets data access on the go with 4G LTE support via Verizon
Tech Shout By: Demetrius Crasto HP’s Chromebook 11 got off to a good start despite the charger overheating issues. And now, the company has now added a new option which allows you to access the...
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HP Chromebook 11 Shows Up At Best Buy
Empowered News The HP Chromebook 11 with LTE is already available on Best Buy at a price tag of $379. Although the price tag is $100 higher than the Wi-Fi model of the device, a...
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HP, Google Launch Chromebook with LTE
Tom's Hardware By: Kevin Parrish Finally, there's a Chomebook that can connect anywhere. Altair Semiconductor announced on Wednesday that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset was selected to connect the new 11.6-inch HP Chromebook to the Verizon 4G...
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HP, Google select Altair chip for LTE-only Chromebook
DigiTimes By: Jessie Shen Altair Semiconductor, an Israel-based developer of 4G/LTE chip solutions, has announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset will connect the new HP Chromebook to the Verizon Wireless LTE network. The ultra-portable device, developed...
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HP’s LTE Chromebook 11 to skip on 3G hardware, says chip supplier Altair
9 to 5 Google By: Ben Lovejoy Update: Best Buy is already listing the new model online for $379 (via Liliputing). Reuters is reporting a claim by Israel’s Altair Semiconductor that HP will be launching a LTE-only Chromebook 11, with...
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HP New Chromebook with Verizon LTE Incoming [Reuters]
Softpedia By: Alexandra Arici This year will certainly prove to be a full year for Chromebooks. Toshiba has just announced its very first offering at CES 2014 and Dell has joined the party not so long ago. ...
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HP Chromebook 11 with 4G LTE pops up at Best Buy
ComputerWorld By: Jared Newman Google's lineup of low-end Chromebooks no longer lacks a 4G LTE option. Best Buy is now selling a 4G LTE version of the HP Chromebook 11, with coverage from Verizon Wireless, in select...
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HP Chromebook 11 with Verizon 4G LTE Arrives for $379
Gotta Be Mobile By: Cory Gunther The Chromebook is gaining steam as an excellent replacement for that expensive desktop PC or Macbook Pro laptop, and with good reason. After being one of the best-selling devices this past holiday season,...
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HP, Google To Debut Chromebook 11 With LTE
Hot Hardware By: Seth Colaner HP and Google are set to debut an LTE version of the HP Chromebook 11, but the announcement came from neither company; instead, it’s from Altair, the company that’s making the actual LTE chip for the...
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HP Chromebook 11 Gains LTE Connectivity on Verizon, Can be Yours for $379
Android Headlines BY: Syed Sofian Rabbani The original HP Chromebook 11 has definitely turned out to be a fantastic device which showcases Google’s Chrome OS. The device boasts of a great display, compact size and the capability...
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HP, Google tap Altair Semiconductor for LTE-only Chromebook
telecompaper Developer of single-mode LTE chipsets, Altair Semiconductor has announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset was selected to connect the new HP Chromebook 11.6-inch LTE to the Verizon Wireless LTE network. The new device is available...
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HP Chromebook 11 with LTE Arrives at Best Buy, Altair’s LTE Modem Inside
Anand Tech By: Brian Klug We reviewed HP's Chromebook 11 a while back in the WiFi-only variety and found it to be an interesting value play for Chromebooks, even though the Exynos 5250 left a bit to...
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HP’s Chromebook 11 is now available with LTE
CNET By: Brooke Crothers Hewlett-Packard's Chromebook 11 with LTE appears at Best Buy -- and is still pretty cheap at $379. Hewlett-Packard's Chromebook 11 is now available with LTE -- and can be purchased at...
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HP Chromebook 11 LTE slips out with Verizon 4G
Slash Gear By: Chris Davies HP's Chromebook 11 has quietly landed on Verizon's LTE network, with the 4G-enabled laptop going on sale at a $100 premium over its WiFi-only sibling. The Chromebook 11 LTE, spotted...
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HP makes affordable LTE Chromebook using Altair chip
Hexus By: Mark Tyson A Chromebook made by Hewlett Packard and sporting an Atair 4G/LTE chip is now available in retail in the US. This is the first affordable LTE Chromebook made available to the market so...
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VERIZON LTE-POWERED HP CHROMEBOOK 11 REVEALED, RETAILS FOR $379
Digital Trends By: Konrad Krawczyk The HP Chromebook 11 has had an interesting ride through life since being released back in October. First, sales were initially halted after multiple users reported problems with the charger, which, in some cases, was...
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Verizon Wireless bypasses 3G with LTE Chromebook
RCR Wireless By: Martha DeGrasse Verizon Wireless is set to add another LTE/Wi-Fi tablet to its portfolio, the newest Hewlett-Packard Chromebook. The tablets are often called LTE-only because they do not include 3G connectivity. Altair...
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HP Chromebook 11 LTE now arriving with select retailers
Android Community By: Robert Nelson Earlier this morning we learned how the HP Chromebook 11 LTE connectivity would be coming by way of a chip from Altair Semiconductor. While HP has yet to offer any sort of press...
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LTE Powered HP Chromebook 11 Launches For $379
Geeky Gadgets By: Roland Hutchinson The HP Chromebook 11 has been available for a while now, and now HP and Altair have announced a new LTE powered version of the HP Chromebook 11 which will retail for...
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Altair chip to power HP’s LTE-only Chromebook
Muktware By: Monika Bhati Israel’s Altair Semiconductor has announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset will connect the new HP Chromebook to Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network. It is claimed to be the only LTE (long-term evolution)-only Chromebook available....
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Altair Supplying Single-Mode LTE Chip for HP’s New Chromebook
EDN By: Andrew Berg Israel-based Altair Semiconductor will provide single-mode LTE chips for HP's Google Chromebooks. According to a press release, Altair's FourGee-3100/6202 chipset was selected to connect the new HP Chromebook 11.6” LTE to...
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HP Chromebook 11 LTE connectivity coming from Altair Semiconductor
Android Community By: Robert Nelson The HP Chromebook 11 has been returning to an available status following the charger recall. The Chrome-running notebook has come available direct from HP as well as with Amazon and from the...
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HP Chromebook 11 with LTE now available for $379
Liliputing By: Brad Linder The HP Chromebook 11 is a small notebook with a Samsung Exynos 5250 processor, a bright display, and a $279 price tag. But now you can also pick up a model with built-in...
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HP Chromebook 11 with LTE spotted with $379 price (possible $50 rebate too)
Gigaom By: Kevin C. Tofel Earlier this morning, I noted that Altair announced its chip would power the HP Chromebook 11 LTE model on Verizon’s network. I figured the updated model would be available soon, but I...
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HP Chromebook 11 with LTE: No 3G fallback to keep costs down
Gigaom By Kevin C. Tofel While the HP Chromebook 11 debuted as a Wi-Fi only model, the product page has long said that LTE would be an option. A chip from Altair Semiconductor will add mobile...
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Altair and HP launch Verizon LTE-powered Chromebook 11 for $379
ZDNET By Matthew Miller Summary: The Chromebook 11 is a fantastic Chrome-OS device thanks to its great display, compact size, and ability to charge via microUSB. You can now purchase one with an integrated LTE...
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HP, Google select Altair’s chip for LTE-only Chromebook
Reuters By Tova Cohen Israel's Altair Semiconductor, a developer of chips for fourth- generation (4G) mobile technology known as LTE, said its chips will connect the new Hewlett Packard Chromebook to Verizon Wireless' LTE network....
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A Look At Altair’s Single Mode LTE Modem in the Ellipsis 7
AnandTech By Brian Klug I met with a number of LTE baseband makers at CES 2014, the first of which was Altair Semiconductor, who recently scored an interesting design win with Verizon's first directly-branded tablet,...
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Altair and Ecrio team up
Electronics Weekly.com Altair Semiconductor which makes single-mode LTE chipsets, and Ecrio, the 4G LTE real time mobile client software provider are to combine forces on a chip-set for VoLTE. VoLTE enables carriers to migrate voice...
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Altair in pact with Ecrio for VoLTE
Telecom Lead By Editor@telecomlead.com LTE chip vendor Altair Semiconductor and Ecrio, a provider of 4G LTE real time communications client software, announced partnership to provide integrated solution bringing together Altair’s LTE chipset and Ecrio’s FlexIMS based Voice over...
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Israeli firm’s 4G chips find a home in Verizon tablet – Times of Israel
Altair Semiconductor's LTE chip is bringing down prices for advanced tablets - in line with company strategy, says co-founder Eran Eshed Times of Israel By David Shamah US mobile service provider Verizon has chosen Israeli mobile...
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Smartwatches Are About to Become Much Smarter
Dick Tracey introduced the first wireless phone-watch back in 1946. By the time the comic strip detective hit the silver screen in 1964, his watch, by then quite iconic, even boasted video call capabilities. True, Tracey's watch...
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When Will LTE Be a ‘No-Brainer’ for Tablet Shoppers? – Wireless Week
Wireless Week By Andrew Berg When consumers are tablet shopping this holiday season, they'll likely still notice a significant price difference between the LTE-capable models and those with Wi-Fi only; Apple charges a $130 premium...
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LTE Tablet Holiday Face-Off
The price gap between cellular and Wi-Fi-only tablets stands prohibitive to most folks scooping up a slate with an LTE chip. But with Verizon rolling out its $5 daily tablet data plans, the LTE airwaves...
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The Era of LTE-Only Tablets Begins With …
By Sascha Segan PC Magazine Verizon's Ellipsis tablet is the vanguard of a new era. It's the first LTE-only device we've seen in the U.S., and there are plenty more to come. That's because LTE-only tablets are going to...
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Why Verizon’s Ellipsis could be the first in a new wave of cheap 4G tablets
If you’re in the market for a connected tablet and you haven’t taken investigated Verizon’s new Ellipsis 7, the slate is definitely worth a look if only for its price tag: $250 without contract. While there...
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Verizon Wireless certifies Altair chipset directly – RCR Wireless
RCR Wireless August 30, 2012 By Martha DeGrasse Altair Semiconductor says Verizon Wireless has certified its 4G LTE chipset directly, instead of certifying individual devices that use the chip. “This is a strategic milestone,” says...
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Interview with Chee Kwan of Altair at LTE Asia 2012 – bnetTV
bnetTV October 30, 2012 bnetTV speaks with Chee Kwan from Altair at the 2012 LTE Asia show held in Singapore and gets a overview of the company and their products. Altair today invited its customers...
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Interview with Eran Eshed of Altair at LTE North America 2012 – RCR Wireless
RCR Wireless December 13, 2012 Recently, Verizon certified Altair's single mode, LTE silicon solution platform. This is the first time Verizon has approved an LTE only chip set. For data applications, Altair's co-founder believes that...
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Altair makes the case for the single-mode LTE market – Maravedis Rethink
Maravedis Rethink November 20, 2012 By Caroline Gabriel The essence of being a successful small challenger in the chip industry is to identify trends before they happen and take a position, rather than like spotting...
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SK Telecom CTO dishes on small cells, LTE-Advanced and RCS – FierceBroadbandWireless
FierceBroadbandWireless December 20, 2012 On the Hot Seat with Byun Jae-woan, CTO and head of the technology at SK Telecom. SK Telecom has long prided itself on introducing cutting-edge technologies. The operator's LTE network already covers...
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Altair’s LTE Chipsets are Certified by Verizon (Interview) – Geek News Central
Geek News Central January 10, 2013 (Click image to view video interview) Altair Semiconductor is a start up company that is based in Israel, near Tel Aviv. The company has been around for seven years,...
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Lantiq Enables VoLTE for Broadband Wireless Gateways – BetaNews
BetaNews August 22, 2012 Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today announced two collaborations with leading providers of client software that enables rich, native communications services for 4G LTE clients. ...
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Verizon certifies its first chip vendor because M2M will rock the world – GigaOm
GigaOm August 28, 2012 By Stacey Higginbotham Verizon must believe in the Internet of Things because it has pre-certified LTE chips from Altair Semiconductor. The action means that companies can build sensors and devices containing...
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Verizon’s certification of Altair chipset opens doors for M2M OEMs – Fierce Broadband Wireless
IoT News August 29, 2012 By Tammy Parker Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) certification of Altair Semiconductor's FourGee-3100/6202 chipset is a major step toward expanding the number of machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and other products available for use...
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Verizon pre-certifies Altair LTE chip – EE Times
EETimes August 29, 2012 By Carolyn Mathas Verizon Wireless pre-certified Altair Semiconductor’s FourGee 3100/6202 LTE chipset to run over Verizon’s 4G LTE network, representing the first time that Verizon certified an LTE chip vs. a...
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SK Telecom, Ericsson and Altair develop LTE TD-FDD handover – Mobile Europe
Mobile Europe September 19, 2012 SK Telecom has announced that it has developed technology to allow handover between TD and FDD LTE duplexes within a single device — leading the way to dual-mode LTE devices...
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The LTE iPhone experience: What to expect with iPhone 5 – ComputerWorld NZ
ComputerWorld NZ September 24, 2012 By John Cox You have it in the iPhone 5: the first LTE iPhone from Apple. Now what? It depends. LTE coverage To use LTE, you need a 4G LTE...
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Interview: Eran Eshed, Co-Founder, Altair Semiconductor – MicroWaves & RF
MicroWaves & RF April 8, 2013 By Nancy Friedrich NF: Long Term Evolution (LTE) is becoming the dominant cellular-communications technology being used by devices in the US. Obviously, the industry has gotten over the initial...
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CTIA: Verizon Pushes for Single-Mode LTE – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile May 21, 2013 By Sarah Reedy Verizon Wireless has promised single-mode LTE devices in 2014, and 4G LTE-only smartphones may be included in the line-up by the end of the year. Verizon CFO...
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Altair attacks Qualcomm, Wi-Fi with low-cost LTE – EE Times
EE Times June 24, 2013 By Rick Merritt SAN JOSE, Calif. – Altair Semiconductor aims to drive LTE this year down into the penny-pinching budget of Wi-Fi for mobile devices and the Internet of Things....
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Altair’s Goal: Slash LTE Chip Prices – IT Business Edge
IT Business Edge June 28, 2013 By Carl Weinschenk It’s Friday, which always is good news. Here is a dig into the meaning of noteworthy news and commentary from the week ending today. Trouble for...
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Altair Raises $25 Million for Its LTE-Only Chipset Business – eWeek
eWeek By Jeffrey Burt The company looks to drive down the cost of mobile computing by creating 4G LTE-only chipsets for mobile devices, networking gear and other products. Officials with startup Altair Semiconductor are betting...
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Israel’s Altair gets another $25M to build its LTE superchips – GigaOm
GigaOm July 1, 2013 By Kevin Fitchard Israel’s homegrown LTE device chipmaker Altair semiconductor has raised another $25 million from its existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, BRM Group, Giza Venture Capital, Jerusalem Venture Partners and Pacific...
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Altair Raises $25M for Single-Mode LTE – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile July 1, 2013 By Sarah Reedy Single-mode LTE chipset maker Altair Semicondutor has raised US$25 million in funding that it plans to use to support high-volume product deployments from its largest customers. The funding,...
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Altair Semiconductor raises $25 million in venture capital – The Economic Times
Reuters July 1, 2013 TEL AVIV: Altair Semiconductor, a developer of chips for fourth generation (4G) mobile technology known as LTE, raised $25 million from venture capital funds to strengthen its market position and support product deployments from...
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Altair Lands $25M for High-Speed Connected Devices – Dow Jones Venturewire
Dow Jones Venturewire By Scott Denne Altair Semiconductor has raised $25 million in new funding to carve out its place in high-speed mobile networking before its bigger competitor, Qualcomm Inc., has a chance to act. The new funding...
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Altair Semiconductor raised $25M for cheap, efficient LTE chipsets – VentureBeat
VentureBeat July 1, 2013 Devindra Hardawar It won’t be too long until 4G LTE networks are just as ubiquitous as 3G, and at that point devices won’t even need 3G. That’s a future Israel-based Altair Semiconductor is...
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Altair: A ‘paradigm shift’ in LTE – RCR Wireless
RCR Wireless September 24, 2013 Kelly Hill The coverage of LTE networks is becoming ubiquitous enough that the market for single-mode LTE chipsets is growing, according to Altair Semiconductor. Eran Eshed, co-founder and vice president...
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Israeli Startup’s Formula for Breaking Into Mobile: Forget the IPhone – Bloomberg
Bloomberg July 1, 2013 By Ian King An Israeli startup thinks it can do a better job than Intel, Broadcom and other chipmakers hundreds of times its size at loosening Qualcomm's stranglehold over wireless-data chips....
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The “LTE-Advanced” silicon keeps coming: Altair has a new super-chip – GigaOm
GigaOm February 20, 2013 By Kevin Fitchard Altair Semiconductor is the latest silicon company to lay claim to an LTE-Advanced chip. In preparation for Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona, the Israeli vendor on...
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Franklin Wireless Picks Altair’s Verizon Wireless Certified Chipset – TMCnet
TMCnet January 14, 2013 By Jyothi Shanbhag Franklin Wireless has recently selected Altair Semiconductor’s FourGee LTE chipset to support its line of single mode LTE-enabled products for the U.S. market. OC Kim, president of Franklin Wireless, said that Altair's LTE solution...
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4G LTE network enables LTE multiservice gateway – EDN Asia
EDN Asia January 14, 2013 Altair Semiconductor, Ecrio Inc. and Lantiq have teamed up and demonstrated a 4G LTE IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) powered LTE Multiservice Gateway product, including Voice over LTE (IMS/VoLTE) functionality. According to the firms, the...
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Marvell and Altair show off LTE device chips – Rethink Wireless
February 21, 2013 By Caroline Gabriel The LTE handset chips will be coming thick and fast at Mobile World Congress, and among the firms previewing their latest offerings this week were Marvell and Altair. Marvell...
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2013 Mobile World Congress: Moving On – Microwave Journal
Microwave Journal March 5, 2013 Just as mobile networks are reaching their capacity so too did the Fira de Barcelona Conference and Exhibition Centre, which had played host to the Mobile World Congress since 2006, prompting a...
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Altair Looks To Ramp Up India Biz – Light Reading India
Light Reading India February 28, 2013 By Gagandeep Kaur Being an LTE-focused chip player, Altair sees growth coming on the back of rollouts by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Mumbai: BHARTIARTL) "Our biggest focus in India...
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Altair Semiconductor’s 4G Chip Bet Pays Off – TMCnet
TMCnet February 26, 2013 By Rich Tehrani As wireless markets globally move to 4G, Altair Semiconductor has targeted this newer network standard with a single-mode line of chips which cost less and use less power...
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Altair Semiconductor Finds a Place Among Mobile Innovators – ComputerWorld
ComputerWorld Matt Hamblen March 1, 2012 BARCELONA -- Altair Semiconductor, based in Israel, is a smaller company that showed off its LTE radio chips -- and the tablets and routers they're being installed in --...
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Altair Semiconductor Chipset For Indian TD-LTE Market – Crazy Engineers
Crazy Engineers By Ankita Katdare May 7, 2012 India’s broadband market is one of the fast-growing LTE markets in the world. Indians are adopting to the LTE faster than ever before. Altair Semiconductor, a company known for...
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Altair Semiconductor launches TD-LTE chipset for Indian telecom market – Telecom Lead
Telecom Lead May 8, 2012 Altair Semiconductor has unveiled a cost and feature-optimized chipset tailored for the Indian TD-LTE market. Altair developed the chipset based on the stringent cost and performance needs of the Indian...
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Olive Telecom Selects Altair Semiconductor – TMCnet
TMCnet By Raju Shanbhag May 14, 2012 Altair Semiconductor is a provider of TD-LTE products. The company has explored markets in Brazil and has completed advanced pre-commercial field trials with carriers around the world, including...
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Live LTE handover between TD and FDD demonstrated – Microwave Engineering Europe
Microwave Engineering Europe By Jean-Pierre Joosting June 20, 2012 Altair Semiconductor has announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset successfully completed TD/FDD LTE live handover testing with Rohde & Schwarz. The test, which employed Altair's FourGee™ chipset...
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Altair, Rohde & Schwarz Demo LTE Handovers – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile June 19, 2012 Altair Semiconductor, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced that its FourGee-3100/6202 chipset successfully completed TD/FDD LTE live handover testing...
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Ericsson and China Mobile perform TD-LTE handover – Voice & Data
Voice & Data June 21, 2012 Ericsson and China Mobile Hong Kong perform seamless bidirectional handover between LTE FDD/TDD on a commercial chipset from Altair Semiconductor allowing operators to seamlessly offer mobile broadband services on...
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Altair Semiconductor, InformInvestGroup join forces to deliver LTE solutions in Russia – Telecom Lead
Telecom Lead May 14, 2012 Telecom Lead Russia: Altair Semiconductor and InformInvestGroup, a Russian scientific and industrial holding, announced the availability of user devices for the Russian market based on Altair's FDD and TD-LTE chipset. Both...
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Altair Semiconductor unveils TD-LTE chipset for India – TelecomAsia.net
TelecomAsia.net May 11, 2012 Altair Semiconductor has released a cost and feature-optimized chipset tailored for the Indian TD-LTE market, which is expected to become one of the fastest-growing LTE markets in the world. The chipset,...
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Olive Builds 4G Devices With Altair Chips – Light Reading India
Light Reading India By Rae Le Maistre May 10, 2012 Mobile device manufacturer Olive Telecom is to use Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex (LTE TDD) chipsets from Israeli vendor Altair Semiconductor to develop products...
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Bits and Bytes: T-Mobile deploys green site; OfferMobi reaches milestone; and more – RCR Wireless U.S.
RCR Wireless U.S. September 17, 2010 T-Mobile USA launched a solar powered cell site in Chalfont, Penn. The company said it is the first solar cell site it has deployed in the United States. The...
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Reference Design Abets Popular 4G LTE Chipset – Electronic Design
Electronic Design September 15, 2010 According to Altair Semiconductor, its Digital Dividend (Band 20) Reference Design embarks as one of the world's first such designs and the only one that has already completed IOT testing...
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Altair launches Digital Dividend reference design – Telecom Paper
Telecom Paper September 14, 2010 Fabless chip company Altair Semiconductor has announced the commercial availability of its Digital Dividend (Band 20) reference design. The design has completed IOT testing with tier-one infrastructure vendors. Altair's...
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Altair Releases Digital Dividend Reference Design – LTE Portal
LTE Portal September 14, 2010 Altair Semiconductor has announced the commercial release of the Digital Dividend reference design, featuring Altair's proven FourGee LTE chipset and interoperability-tested software stack. According to the company's press release, this...
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Altair Semiconductor announces Digital Dividend reference design – EE Times Europe
EE Times Europe September 14, 2010 By Jean-Pierre Joosting Altair Semiconductor has announced the commercial availability of its Digital Dividend (Band 20) reference design, one of the world's first such designs which also claims to...
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Wireless Innovations Drive The Mobile Market – Electronic Design
Electronic Design Louis E. Frenzel December 13, 2011 The end of the world on December 21 this year notwithstanding—at least according to some superstitions—the wireless world keeps moving ahead with many impressive developments on all...
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LTE Technology Qualified by China’s Ministry of industry and Information Technology (MIIT)- Product Design and Development
PR Newswire September 19, 2011 Altair Semiconductor announced today that following rigorous testing conducted by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), its dual mode FourGee-3100/6202 TDD/FDD-LTE chipset has been officially approved for use in...
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LTE Offers 100Mbit/s Mobile Downloads, Says Processor Firm – Electronics Weekly
Electronics Weekly Richard Wilson August 15, 2011 Altair Semiconductor has announced that its TD-LTE standard chipset for 4G mobile has achieved download data rate of 100Mbit/s in a commercial USB dongle in a live over-the-air...
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Live Network Configuration Demo Achieves Speed of More Than 100Mbps – ECNmag.com
EEWorld Online August 15, 2011 Altair Semiconductor, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, announced that its TD-LTE chipset, integrated in a commercial USB dongle, achieved download speeds...
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INTERVIEW: Altair Semiconductor to Expand in Emerging Telecom Markets – Telecom Lead
Telecom Lead Rashi Varshney October 1, 2011 Israel-based Altair Semiconductor is heavily investing in the next generation of products, which will be faster, smaller and more powerful. The company's co-founder and VP of Marketing and...
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D2 Technologies Partners with Altair Semiconductor to Create Ultra-Low Power 4G VoLTE Communications Solution – ECN Magazine
BRM Group October 24, 2011 D2 Technologies announced that it has partnered with one of the world's leading suppliers of commercial semiconductor solutions for FDD/TDD LTE, Altair Semiconductor, to meet the demand for turnkey LTE...
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Analyst Angle: A market perspective on LTE’s rollout – RCR Wireless U.S.
RCR Wireless U.S. June 30, 2010 By Satish Menon Long Term Evolution or LTE, a next-generation 3G technology that uses ODFMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) access technology in the air interface, is making waves...
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Altair and IPWireless to Release LTE Modem in Late 2010 – LTE Portal
LTE Portal July 8, 2010 Altair Semiconductor announced a partnership with IPWireless aimed at developing a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key LTE frequency bands. Samples of the device will be...
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IPWireless, Altair Team on LTE – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile July 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO -- IPWireless, a leading provider of 3GPP technology for new applications and markets, and Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high...
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IPWireless and Altair Show Multi-Band, Multi-Mode LTE Modem – Converge! Network Digest
Converge! Network Digest July 8, 2010 IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor announced an LTE USB modem that will support multiple frequency bands including the 800MHz digital dividend band, 1800 MHz and 2.5 GHz. Subsequent devices will...
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Altair and IPWireless Join to Create Wireless Industry’s First LTE Modem – Mobility Techzone
Mobility Techzone July 8, 2010 By Juliana Kenny Announcing a partnership to develop a line of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands, IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor will create the wireless industry's...
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ST-Ericsson and Sagem aim for early LTE devices – Rethink Wireless
Rethink Wireless July 8, 2010 By Caroline Gabriel The race to get silicon into LTE devices is heating up, with several carriers stepping up the pressure to have smartphones on the market a year or...
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Altair Semiconductor – leading the development of LTE chipsets – Optical Keyhole
Optical Keyhole July 8, 2010 Interview with Eran Eshed, co-founder and VP Marketing and Business Development Introduction Altair Semiconductor of Hod Hasharon, Israel, was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives to develop...
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Interview with Eran Eshed of Altair on LTE developments & trends – LTE World
LTE World July 8, 2010 By Pankaj LteWorld had the opportunity to interview Eran Eshed , Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Altair, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and...
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IP Wireless taps Altair LTE chips for USB modems – EE Times
Light Reading July 8, 2010 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Startup Altair Semiconductor has booked the first public design win for its Long Term Evolution cellular chips to module maker IPWireless who is providing external USB...
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IPWireless, Altair link up to create global LTE modem – Connected Planet
Connected Planet July 8, 2010 By Kevin Fitchard Two specialist vendors in the 3G and 4G equipment space are teaming up to attack the long-term evolution market. Time division-CDMA equipment–maker IPWireless and 4G silicon vendor...
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Challengers Shake Up LTE Chips – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile July 5, 2010 By Michelle Donegan No shortage of silicon will thwart mobile operators' Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployment plans, but established chipset vendors face challenges from new contenders in this dynamic...
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LTE driving software-defined developments – Mobile Europe
Mobile Europe July 9, 2010 Developers and designers are responding to industry needs for innovative, multi-mode LTE devices. The requirement for multimode LTE devices is not just that they can handoff between LTE, HSPA and...
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IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor partner to develop first multi-band, multi-mode LTE modem – Microwave Engineering Europe
Microwave Engineering Europe July 12, 2010 IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor have announced a partnership to develop a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands ideally suited to global LTE deployments....
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IP Wireless and Altair team-up on multi-mode LTE modems – Rethink Wireless
July 14, 2010 By Peter White TDD specialist firm IP Wireless has teamed up with Israeli broadband chip specialist Altair Semiconductor to build an LTE modem which works with both TDD and FDD systems. The...
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LTE chip makers take aim at Qualcomm – Fierce Broadband Wireless
Fierce Broadband Wireless August 22, 2010 By Lynnette Luna The race is on for mobile chip makers to gain a lead in the LTE market. Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has transferred its leadership in 3G chips to LTE,...
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Bits and Bytes: Mobile shopping habits revealed; TCS, Mitek patents granted; and more – RCR Wireless U.S.
RCR Wireless U.S. August 20, 2010 By Kristen Beckman A new study found consumers are using mobile devices to expand their in-store shopping experience. The study was conducted by Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. company,...
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India a Sure Bet for WiMAX? Not So Fast – Wireless Week
Wireless Week August 9, 2010 By Maisie Ramsay When Reliance Industries paid $1 billion for control of Indian broadband company Infotel hours after it became the only company to win a slice of 4G spectrum...
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Chip firm Altair targets India’s TD-LTE market – India BandWidth
India BandWidth July 31, 2010 Initially for dongles and data cards rather than handsets Even as the debate about TD-LTE's time lag compared to WiMax rages, an Israeli firm Altair Semiconductor has announced commercial availability...
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Altair announces commercial TD-LTE reference design – Fierce Broadband Wireless
Fierce Broadband Wireless July 29, 2010 By Lynnette Luna Altair Semiconductor announced commercial availability of a new TD-LTE reference design for use in dongles, data cards, consumer premise equipment and mobile handheld devices. The reference design...
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Altair Semi co-founder: WiMax ‘just isn’t happening’ – ZD Net
ZD Net July 28, 2010 By Larry Dignan Altair Semiconductor, an Israeli startup focused on 4G chipsets, has played the WiMax game but six months ago decided to halt development and cast its lot with...
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Altair releases TD-LTE reference design – Rethink Wireless
Fierce Wireless July 28, 2010 By Caroline Gabriel Altair Semiconductor, a specialist in low power WiMAX chips, has recently extended its range to cover LTE. Like several other WiMAX silicon providers, it aims to leverage...
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IPWireless and Huawei to jointly work on IMB Technology – Telecom Tiger
Telecom Tiger July 21, 2010 Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB) technology developer, IPWireless and Huawei Technologies signed a co-operation agreement towards jointly developing IMB technology including interoperability testing (IOT) and service provider trials. The co-operation will...
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Hodge-podge networks will be norm in LTE world
FierceBroadbandWireless July 15, 2010 By Lynnette Luna The whole notion of small-cell architecture is gaining some significant momentum as operators map out their LTE plans. Once thought to be somewhat of an afterthought, whereby...
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IPWireless looks to strengthen LTE plan for public safety – Urgent Communications
Urgent Communications July 14, 2010 By Lynnette Luna IPWireless has teamed with LTE chipset maker Altair Semiconductor to develop a series of multiband modem products that will support the key frequencies in which LTE will...
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