Samsung to use Sandbridge Technologies wireless chips

Samsung to use Sandbridge Technologies wireless chips

Moving ahead on its next-generation wireless chips, Sandbridge Technologies said today that it has cut a deal with Samsung Electronics, which plans to use Sandbridge’s chips in next-generation cell phones featuring high-speed data connectivity.

Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Sandbridge has pioneered a series of SB3500 baseband processors that do software defined radio. That is, the chips can adapt on the fly to handling a variety of different radio signals. Hence, a single chip is all you need to… Continue Reading

On its second try, Sandbridge promises a revolution with the Holy Grail of wireless chips

On its second try, Sandbridge promises a revolution with the Holy Grail of wireless chips

Sandbridge Technologies is announcing today that it has created a chip that could represent the Holy Grail of wireless computing: a processor that can perform software-defined radio with low cost and low power consumption.

Software-defined radio, or SDR, is the ability for a single radio chip to change its identity with a simple change of software running on it. One minute, it’s a global positioning system radio. The next, it is processing voice calls using the… Continue Reading