Broadcom NFC Chips In 40 NM
Broadcom unveiled its first line of near-field communications (NFC) chips for smartphones and the announcement comes on the heels of Google Wallet, a groundbreaking, if small-scale, step intended to popularize the use of phones to pay for items. Its new family of BCM2079x chips have moved to a 40nm manufacturing process which cuts power use by 90-percent and board size by 40-percent and Broadcom claims they’re the smallest and most power efficient NFC chips on the market, which could be used to quickly pair with other gadgets using Bluetooth or stream media to a connected television…………………