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Crowd Aggregation – Mobile World Congress 2013

This was the first year at the new venue for Mobile World Congress taking place at the Fira Gran Via. The new venue has  eight large halls laid out in a linear fashion (hard to know if you count Hall 8 and 8.1 as two of not).  The top floor ran over all of the halls making it easy to get from one place to the next despite the large crowds of people.  There were also nice outdoor garden areas along the concourse for networking.  The show formally announced that 72,000 people attended the show making it by far the largest wireless show in the world.
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Skyworks expands suite of 802.11ac solutions

Skyworks Solutions Inc. expanded its wireless portfolio with the introduction of highly integrated front-end modules enabling 802.11ac connectivity in smartphones and tablets. The company’s precision analog semiconductors are already being utilized in many of the world’s first commercially-available 802.11ac notebooks, ultrabooks, LED TVs, routers, USB data cards and Blu-Ray® players.


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Skyworks ramps antenna tuning solutions

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, is ramping several antenna tuning products with leading smartphone manufacturers. Skyworks’ devices are meeting the market demand for tunable antennas which dramatically improve performance by increasing data throughput, reducing dropped calls and minimizing the antenna footprint needed for today’s multiband LTE smartphones.


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