Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 7)

Rahul Patel: I can give you a life-changing application that is very useful, and I think people will appreciate it. It is in the medical space. Say there is somebody who is not doing well whose health needs to be constantly monitored. One way of solving this is having the person constantly close to a

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So you need somebody like Google between you and a developer ecosystem? Rahul Patel: Yes. Google is a customer of Broadcom. That is how I would look at it.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: It is part of your chips, but it has to be controlled somehow. What is the control point? Rahul Patel: We bring all those control points to the APIs, and then the application developer decides how they want to control it. Setting up the turning on and off time for radios, for example,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Of all the goods that get moved around in warehouses or containers, what percentage of those are equipped with wireless tracking devices? Rahul Patel: That depends on the industry. If you look at things being transported – containers being transported over the ocean, for example – they all have wireless falloff tracking. The

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It is not clear to me why I would want to control a washer or dryer remotely. Rahul Patel: If you put your clothes in the dryer and leave your home, normally you won’t know if your clothes are dry until you come home. Maybe you need to turn another cycle on to

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You started with wearables, and this topic is very hot right now. Let´s talk about some of the analysis around wearables. Based on your current component shipments, where in the wearables segment is the maximum action? Rahul Patel: Products are all going to get connected to the phones we all carry. That is

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 1)

Rahul Patel is the vice president of product marketing for wireless connectivity combos at Broadcom, where he has been working since 2002. He has a B. Tech. in electronics & communications engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal, an MS in computer science & engineering from Arizona State University, and an MBA in marketing

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iPhone Beneficiaries Qualcomm And Broadcom

Chipmakers Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) recently reported their quarterly results. While Broadcom posted record sales on strong demand for electronic devices such as the iPad and iPhone, Qualcomm benefitted from the global growth in 3G. Let’s take a closer look.