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Broadcom sets its sights on a billion NFC devices

By Sarah Clark • 11 December 2012 • Updated 18 October 2014

The connectivity chip maker has launched the BCM43341, a combo chip that combines NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio and is designed to meet ever increasing demand from mass market mobile phone and consumer electronics device makers. More

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Google picks Broadcom for NFC in Nexus 4 and Nexus 10

By Sarah Clark • 14 November 2012 • Updated 11 December 2012

Nexus 4 teardown shows Broadcom NFC controller. Image: Anandtech.com

The new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean mobile phone and tablet reference devices make use of a Broadcom NFC controller chip instead of the NXP chips Google used in earlier models. Broadcom has also contributed its NFC software stack to the Android Open Source Project. More

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Broadcom sets its sights on a billion NFC devices

Google picks Broadcom for NFC in Nexus 4 and Nexus 10