Mobile

It’s a fact, if you’re not everywhere, you’re nowhere. People are on the go, and they want to bring it all with them. From media rich experiences via smartphone, to multi-player gaming anytime-any place, to pinpoint accuracy in location-based applications, Qualcomm Atheros has the mobile solutions to keep the world moving. Across the room or across the globe, we have it well in hand. Because There is Here.

By connecting more devices in the home, office and on the go, Qualcomm Atheros mobile solutions enable people to move content from ‘there’ to ‘here’ in a way that is simple and transparent to the user.

The availability of full-featured, low-power and cost-effective connectivity and location solutions is fueling their rapid adoption in mobile devices, including smart and feature phones, portable and tablet PCs, eBooks, mobile gaming, PNDs, and a host of other consumer electronics products.

Qualcomm Atheros is uniquely positioned to offer pre-integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM connectivity, and GNSS location solutions, and support as robust platforms featuring Qualcomm's leading CPU, GPU and cellular modem technologies. The turn-key platforms provided by Qualcomm Atheros enable ODMs and OEMs to seamlessly customize solutions for different wireless applications and price points, and accelerate time-to-market.

Qualcomm Atheros for Mobile Wi-Fi®

Qualcomm Atheros' best-in-class mobile WLAN solutions have been designed into over 100 products, including mobile phones, eBooks, tablets, handheld gaming devices and other portable electronics.

Design and performance flexibility

  • 1-stream 11n, single-band 2.4GHz, with up to 48 Mbps of actual throughput in 20 MHz mode
  • 1-stream 11n, dual-band 2.4/5GHz with up to 85 Mbps of actual throughput in 5GHz/40 MHz mode
  • 802.11g and 802.11a/g, featuring up to 22 Mbps of actual throughput

Game-changing power efficiency

Qualcomm Atheros' mobile technology has a low-power legacy, with each of its three product generations offering the industry’s lowest power consumption. The technology employs circuit-level design techniques and advanced algorithms to ensure that Qualcomm Atheros’ solutions maintain a state of lowest possible power consumption.

Superior Bluetooth® Coexistence

Qualcomm Atheros' Bluetooth solutions provide robust personal area network connectivity for mobile phones and other portable applications. Our latest products support the new Bluetooth 4.0 standard, which not only enable high-speed wireless connections between networking products, but also offers low-power mode to operate with battery-powered devices that aren’t traditionally “connected,” Qualcomm Atheros also offers Bluetooth 3.0 High Speed and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR performance options. All of our Bluetooth solutions feature Universal Wireless Cooperation™, which goes beyond coexistence to enable optimal performance of co-located WLAN and Bluetooth radios, to ensure reliable, error-free connections for the best user experience.

Qualcomm Atheros AP Mode Connectivity

With our AP Mode, a smartphone or other mobile CE device can instantly and securely share the Internet data connection with up to 10 Wi-Fi enabled devices such as PCs, eBooks and tablets. For more information, see Qualcomm Atheros' Direct Connect on the go.

IZat™ Location Solutions

Featured in over 1 billion mobile devices, IZat location solutions provide always-on positioning capabilities with unmatched accuracy and minimal impact on battery life. The end-to-end IZat platform augments satellite-based measurements with cellular, Wi-Fi and sensor positioning techniques, and leverages an array of cloud-based assistance servers to provide a superior location experience. IZat GNSS chipsets are integrated into Qualcomm’s MSM, MDM and APQ platforms, and also sold as discrete SoCs to support a wide variety of device architectures.