Barcelona MWC: Cadence, Vision, Audio, USB Type-C

By _Cadence - Breakfast Bytes

March 1, 2016

Cadence has been at Mobile World Congress all week. Actually they are still there today, but by now I am in Nürnberg in Germany where it snowed last night, so not exactly Barcelona weather. Tensilica came to MWC for several years before Cadence acquired them, and it is still the focus of what Cadence exhibits on their booth at the show.

One of the challenges with a conference like MWC is that it spans such a huge range. There are network operators being wooed by the equipment vendors for contracts in the billions of dollars. There are handset vendors announcing new products hoping to be the new "hot" must-have handset that gets some traction against Apple and Samsung. There are companies supplying every component you might need in a phone (sensors, for example) or a basestation (any number of antennas). There are chip companies like Intel, Mediatek, and Qualcomm. Then there are IP companies such as ARM and Imagination. And, of course, Cadence.

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