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Here is my report from the first day of the Mobile World Congress held here in Barcelona where the global mobile industry is gathered for its biggest annual conference and trade show. On my first day, I took a look at the latest mobile technology and talked to a number of ARM Partners about their exciting new semiconductor products; and in particular, mobile baseband processors. Baseband processors are the chips that run the communications inside a mobile smartphone or tablet and right now we are seeing a new wave of capability introduced in them as ARM’s Partners begin to implement the new LTE, or Long Term Evolution, mobile standards. In fact ARM’s LTE announcement here at Mobile World Congress together with 10 Partners has generated quite a lot of buzz. LTE is an advanced wireless technology, employing a new high data-rate air interface, and it is leading the mobile industry into its fourth generation, 4G, when the even more capable LTE-Advanced standard will arrive.

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