Broadcom announces BCM89335, 89071 combo chips for in-car Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity

Broadcom’s dominance in the wireless space continues as it ventures into the increasingly hot in-car connectivity segment. Broadcom today announced a new series of wireless chips that are aimed at automative use. The two wireless chips include WiFi 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth Smart Ready technologies. The chips that have reached the sampling stage aim to offer faster and smoother streaming between mobile devices, in car displays. Broadcom is aiming for diverse use cases including in car LTE hotspots, smartphone based remote control of your vehicle’s settings.

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Broadcom licenses the ARM7 and ARM8 architectures, to produce smartphone processors

Broadcom has been mainly known for making baseband modems and GPUs for smartphones for a while, but now they have taken the plunge into smartphone processor development by signing up for ARM7 and ARM8 architecture licenses with ARM holdings pvt ltd. the world leading provider of smartphone chipset designs.

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