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TowerJazz ups smartphone battery life

By Reuters
Tel Aviv, 03 Sept 2015

Israeli specialty chip manufacturer TowerJazz and its joint venture with Panasonic have developed radio frequency (RF) technology that can improve battery life and boost data rates in fourth-generation (4G) smartphones.

The technology can reduce power losses in a radio frequency switch by as much as 30% relative to existing technology for 4G LTE phones, as well as so-called Internet of things devices, TowerJazz said yesterday.

Mobile Experts, a market research firm, forecasts the RF front-end component market to reach $10.8 billion in 2015, rising to above $16 billion in 2018.

The Japan-based joint venture, TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor, is majority owned by TowerJazz.

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