Nvidia Is Commiting Suicide With Its FDD-LTE Single-Mode Only Chip
["Ovum's Putcha and Forrester's Gupta believe mass TDD-LTE adoption may not take that long given the surge in global industry support for this version.
"Network vendors may be more focused on FDD now but chipset vendors are rapidly developing dual-mode chips that support both TDD and FDD variants of LTE," says Gupta adding that TDD shares most of the FDD designs and standards and uses a common core network, which is why, the world's top network gear vendors like Nokia Siemens Network and Huawei to chipset vendors like Qualcomm, Samsung and Broadcom are supporting the TDD-LTE platform.”] –economictimes
AT&T has said that, in the future, they will only carry smartphones/tablets that have LTE capability, (presumably Verizon as well).
It is expected that chip makers will need to incorporate modem chip into their application SoC otherwise they will lose out to their competitors.
Competitors such as Qualcomm, Samsung, Intel, Marvel, Broadcom, Sequans, and others are now focusing on dual-mode (FDD and TDD) LTE chip but obviously NOT Nvidia. If Nvidia's business plan is to produce a single-mode FDD-LTE capability (only) chip with its Icera then Nvidia would be committing a suicide in this competitive business.