By David Talbot, Technology Review
The year 2012 saw continued growth in the adoption of mobile communications gadgets, but few technological breakthroughs. But in the months ahead, the guts of mobile devices could be ripe for technological disruption and significant performance boosts. Smartphones and tablets are, in some respects, primitive and inefficient inside. Crack open their sleek surfaces and you find a jumble of standalone processors. There are typically several modems for processing for different wireless standards: 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and, in newer phones, near-field communications. Finally, there are processors for image and video processing, and for the accelerometer and gyrometer. Housing and powering all of these standalone islands of processing is fundamentally inefficient, but technologies are emerging for putting them all together.
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