Kendrick Struthers-Watson, Telecom Engine

LG Electronics has produced its first LTE (Long Term Evolution) modem chip for 4G mobile handsets. Developed at the company’s Mobile Communications Technology Research laboratory in Anyang, South Korea, the device was said to have achieved wireless download speeds of 60 Mbps and upload speeds of 20 Mbps. The...

NTT DOCOMO has announced that it has successfully developed a trial large-scale-integration (LSI) chip that consumes less than 0.04 W of power yet supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal detection and decoding for downlink transmissions at 100 Mbps, the speed required for the forthcoming mobile system known as Super 3G,...