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02.09.2009
mimoOn and CETECOM Announce World’s Smallest Test-Mobile for LTE - using Sandbridge's SB3500
mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio solutions for advanced wireless standards, and CETECOM, a worldwide recognised solution provider for the mobile communications industry, today announced the world’s smallest Test-Mobile implementation for 3GPP LTE. [...] The baseband is implemented on the Sandbridge Technologies’ SB3500® processor, recently announced as the world’s first LTE capable and dynamically reprogrammable multimode SOC, an ideal platform for handsets and data cards.
01.21.2009
BDTI Releases Benchmark Results for Sandbridge SB3500
BDTI has released the first independent benchmark results comparing the performance of the Sandbridge ”Sandblaster“ SB3500 multi-core DSP chip to that of massively parallel chips, high-performance DSP processors, and FPGAs.
12.12.2008
Sandbridge Signs Licence to Run 4G Baseband on Processor
Sandbridge Technologies, a Californian fabless chip company developing multimode baseband/multimedia processors for mobiles, has signed agreements with independent 4G software developers, including UK-based 4M Wireless for 3G LTE software stacks.
12.11.2008
Sandbridge Technologies’ Holy Grail Cell Phone Chip Gets Software Partners
Sandbridge Technologies has made a big bet on creating power-efficient chips that are flexible enough to handle a lot of different cell phone signals, including next-generation wireless technologies. Today, it’s announcing it has lined up cell phone software developers to help it offer complete solutions for its customers.
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12.11.2008
Startup’s LTE Protocol Stack Wins Major Design-ins
Sandbridge Technologies’ 4G capable dynamically Reprogrammable SB3500 multi-mode baseband processor is said to be the most advanced baseband processor available and the first capable of running LTE on a handset.
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12.11.2008
SeaSolve and Sandbridge Introduce Joint Reference Design for Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) Based Products
The SeaSolve/Sandbridge design departs radically from traditional fixed-function hardware designs, that require multiple processors to support mobile communication standards and applications such as, mobile WiMAX, VoIP, and multimedia codecs, etc., increasing the size, cost and power consumption of devices. The Sandbridge/SeaSolve reference design produces a single chip, low cost, low power solution that substantively reduces product development effort and time to market, while enabling complete flexibility and programmability. The solution combines SeaSolve’s mobile WiMAX PHY and MAC IP cores on Sandbridge’s SB3500 board for a complete CPE reference design.
12.08.2008
Gearing up for LTE
The EE Times reports that Qualcomm now wants to start sampling LTE chipsets in the second quarter of 2009, while far smaller rival Sandbridge Technologies Inc. is already showing off sample silicon to customers.
12.09.2008
Hello, Mr. Chips
The word was that 4G chips were likely to become available in early 2009. That prediction seems to be about right, as LG announced that it has developed what it says is the first usable chip for Long Term Evolution (LTE). [...] Another vendor, Sandbridge Technologies, last month announced the SB3500 flexible baseband processor, which the company says can provide LTE capabilities entirely in software. The ability to work entirely in software, the company says, reduces power consumption – a big roadblock to device miniaturation – and reduces time-to-market. In addition to LTE, the chip can provide HSPA, WiMax, Wi-Fi, GPS, multimedia, Digital Video Broadcast-H (DVB-H) and GPS, the release says. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the release is that the company chose to feature LTE from the long list of formats that it claims the chip supports.
11.13.2008
On 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. (In the Business Section).
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11.10.2008
New Processor Could Chip away at Smartphone Costs
New technology from a company called Sandbridge Technologies could help keep smartphone prices in check as carriers begin to move toward 4G wireless networks. On Monday, Sandbridge, based in Tarrytown, N.Y., plans to announce that its new baseband processor for cell phones, called the SB3500, is now shipping to cell phone manufacturers throughout the world. This new processor, which has been in the works for several years, differs from other chips used in cell phones because it's completely software-based and reprogrammable. What this means is that phone manufacturers will be able to pack multiple technologies and functions onto a single chip. And because it's software programmable, the phone makers themselves will be able to determine which technologies to support on the chip. This should help phone manufacturers reduce the number of chips needed in a phone, which will ultimately reduce hardware costs and technical complexity in the devices.
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11.10.208
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. Usually, chip makers have to create separate chips to handle more than a couple of wireless radio protocols. The BlackBerry World Phone from Verizon uses several chips that allow it to make calls in most places of the world. But phones with the Sandbridge SB3500 chip could get by with just one, maybe two. The chip is like a chameleon, shedding its skin colors based on a change in software.
11.13.2008
Sandbridge Delivers Baseband Processor for 4G Smartphones
Addressing the need to cut cost, real estate, and time-to-market for 4G multi-mode smartphones, Sandbridge Technologies unveiled its SB3500 flexible baseband processor. The SB3500 facilitates 4G implementation in handsets entirely in software, resulting in cost and real estate reductions in the 15 to 20% range. The baseband processor operates any radio protocol for a multi-mode, multi-function mobile platform including LTE, HSPA, 3G, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, DVB-H, GPS and all multimedia formats.
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11.11.2008
Sandbridge Rolls out Flexible 4G Mobile Chip
Semiconductor company Sandbridge Technologies has taken the wraps off its latest 4G mobile baseband chip design, which it claims is capable of operating any required radio protocol. The SB3500 is a 65nm reprogrammable software-based processor, which can be adapted to any current and emerging 4G wireless network standard, including Long Term Evolution (LTE), High Speed Packet Access, 3G WiMax, Wi-Fi, Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld, GPS and all multimedia formats.
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11.12.2008
Sandbridge Launches New Baseband Platform for Smartphones
Sandbridge Technologies reportedly has launched its SB3500 flexible baseband processor to facilitate the implementation of 4G mobile handsets entirely in software. The SB3500 can operate any radio protocol needed for a common (universal) multi-mode, multi-function mobile platform, company officials say.
11.11.2008
Sandbridge Rolls Out 65nm Dynamically Reprogrammable, 4G Capable Baseband Platform for Smartphones
Sandbridge Technologies announced today the release of their SB3500 flexible baseband processor which facilitates the implementation of 4G mobile handsets entirely in software. Capable of operating any radio protocol required for a common (universal) multi-mode, multi-function mobile platform, the SB3500 meets critical power consumption specifications of wireless carriers and significantly reduces time-to-market and overall development costs for OEMs.
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11.11.2008
Sandbridge Intros LTE Processors
Sandbridge is developing a reprogrammable baseband processor which will let phone makers pack more technologies and functions into devices using a single chip, Fierce Wireless has reported. The chip, SB3500, promises to help reduce phone costs by 15%, and will allow manufacturers to test and even add new phone functionality before shipping devices.
11.14.2008
Sandbridge Pledges to cut Handset Makers’ Costs by 15%
Semiconductor companies in the handset arena have been working for years to fulfil the dream of the programmable baseband – supporting multiple wireless standards with no change in hardware, and offering significant cost cuts in creating multi-radio devices. Sandbridge has been one of the most prominent start-ups focusing on this challenge, and is now shipping its first cellphone baseband processor, the SB3500. The processor is entirely reprogrammable and software-based, and points to the vision of a fully cognitive radio in future, which can move intelligently between different networks, according to parameters such as cost or signal strength.
11.21.2008
RIM LTE Device Could Be Years Away
Research In Motion Ltd. could take years to introduce a device based on long-term evolution (LTE) despite current talk about the BlackBerry vendor working on a wireless broadband handset based on the proto-4G technology. A potential LTE phone faces two obstacles. First, there aren't any LTE chipsets commercially introduced yet for handsets. And that's partly because of the second problem: The LTE standard hasn't been finalized yet.
The chips are likely to become available sometime in 2009. Sandbridge Technologies Inc. has just started sampling a programmable LTE chipset and said recently that the devices should be commercially available next fall.