Wireless Industry Trends and Technology

Abstract

The cellular wireless market continues to expand. The market for wireless handsets is now approaching a billion devices per year with total subscribers already at over two billion persons. From sophisticated products supporting high-end graphics and multimedia to simple voice-only devices for emerging economies, the wireless market is now touching a very large percentage of the world’s population. This incredible market is driving considerable technology development spanning a wide range of disciplines. Air interfaces have become quite sophisticated with technologies such as HSDPA, WiMAX, and LTE. Semiconductor electronics now includes technology for single chip integration of RF, analog, memory, and logic on a single die. And applications technology is driving toward sophisticated gaming, video, camera, and audio capability. This talk will provide an update on the major trends in the wireless industry and some of the underlying technologies. Key research challenges and their potential impact on the industry will be discussed.

Speaker Biography

Bill Krenik received a BEE degree from the University of Minnesota in 1984, an MSEE degree from Southern Methodist University in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1993. Since 1984, he has been with Texas Instruments in Dallas in a variety of management and technical roles. He is presently the Wireless Advanced Architectures Manager with responsibility for development of advanced wireless technology. Bill holds 38 U.S. patents with several more pending, he has published numerous technical papers and speaks regularly at industry and technical conferences. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is a registered professional engineer in Texas.