Nexperia, an expert in essential semiconductors, announced the latest addition to its family of voltage level translators, the NXT4557GU and NXT4556UP. These devices enable seamless connectivity of next-generation, low-voltage mobile phone baseband processors with its subscribers’ identity module (SIM) cards. As processor geometries advance to single-digit nanometer nodes, the core voltage of advanced SoCs is…
Qualcomm and its partners offer first smartphone demo of iSIM technology
Qualcomm Technologies, Vodafone, and Thales have joined forces to demonstrate a working smartphone, featuring iSIM (based on the ieUICC GSMA specification), a new technology enabling the functionality of a SIM card to be integrated into a device’s main processor. This milestone paves the way for commercialization of the technology, which could be rolled out in…