Qualcomm releases blitz of converged chipsets
by Sam Omatseye
May 13, 2004 1:33 PM EST
In what amounts to a market blitz, Qualcomm Inc. unveiled a series of chipsets covering the CDMA, GSM and W-CDMA technologies.
The U.S. supplier made two announcements regarding the first phase of W-CDMA technology known as High Speed Downlink Packet Access.
The company rolled out a mobile station modem chipset solution known as MSM6280, which supports peak data rates of 7.2 megabits per second. The MSM6280 supports applications such as advanced graphics, video telephony and gaming. It also announced a chip known as RFR6275 to increase the network capacity of the same technology.
“Building on this architecture, manufacturers can develop a single-platform design for differentiated handsets, allowing manufacturers to offer their operator customers dynamic new wireless devices in support of increased data speeds,” said Qualcomm.
The company also announced three chipset solutions converging the three major air interfaces, including CDMA, GSM and W-CDMA. The products are the MSM7500 chipset, which covers CDMA 1x EV-DO Revision A and GSM/GPRS. It also is backward compatible with CDMA2000 standards. The second is MSM7200, which supports W-CDMA/HSDPA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE. The third is MSM7600, which supports CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A and CDMA2000 1x EV-DV Revision D.
The company said the products “allow consumers to play the latest 3D online games, stay in touch with friends through instantaneous picture and video mail, capture live video of vacation memories, keep on track with interactive GPS and listen to MP3 tunes as well as maintain contact with the office.”
Qualcomm also said it has CMOS products that simplify radio design and promote cost reduction for CDMA2000, W-CDMA as well as GSM/GPRS/EDGE.
