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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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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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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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