IMO:By the time that Infineon announces its jointly developed GSM/UMTS Linux Baseband processor, and IDCC announces a 3G license with Samsung ..there will be less than "10 Longs "left on this Board.I for one will welcome the loss of mindless chatter...
P.S. Infineon has yet to announce its Linux EDGE/UMTS Wins.
OLD NEWS
World's first single-core Linux phone demoed
May 23, 2006
FSMLabs and Infineon Technologies claim to have achieved the world's first demonstration of a Linux mobile phone based on a single processor core: a working prototype based on a single ARM9 core running FSMLabs's RTLinux real-time Linux OS, along with a functional 2G/3G (WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM) stack from Infineon's wholly-owned subsidiary, Comneon.
FSMLabs CEO Victor Yodaiken notes, "It's nice to be able to talk about this now. We did all the engineering last year, and have had working systems for a while now."
OLDER NEWS.
3G Linux smartphone design debuts at 3GSM conference
Feb. 11, 2005
Four companies have collaborated on a Linux-based 3G smartphone reference design that will be demonstrated next week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The production-ready platform showcases "advanced 3G" and multimedia services including UMTS/EDGE voice/video calls, video streaming, web-browsing, ultra-fast multimedia, 3D-audio, and 3D-gaming.
Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, Trolltech, and Emuzed, who collaborated on the design, say they plan to market the hardware/software reference design to handset manufacturers that want to gain a quick foothold in the emerging UMTS/EDGE smartphone market using a Linux-based design. Support for UMTS and EDGE cellular standards gives the platform immediate access to wide mobile network coverage, and provides high bandwidth multimedia capabilities, the companies say.
EDGE is a 2.75G Internet access technology with growing penetration in Europe and the Americas, and UMTS is a 3G Internet access technology currently available in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere.
The reference design includes a combination of hardware and software components and technologies, and essentially comprises a production-ready blueprint for 3G smartphones, according to Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord. However, most handset makers will want to modify aspects of it, such as adding their own look-and-feel and branding to the user interface, Nord says.
The hardware
The hardware platform consists of a 3G smartphone reference board (pictured on the right) developed by Infineon Technologies. It features Samsung's S3C24A0 application processor and camera module, and Infineon's MP-U UMTS/EDGE modem platform. The reference board targets small form-factor phone designs, and is supplied along with a compact "slider case," Infineon says.
The software
The software platform is a pre-integrated solution consisting of Infineon's UMTS/EDGE dual-mode protocol stack, Samsung's optimized Linux kernel and drivers ("certified by MontaVista"), Trolltech's Qtopia graphical application platform for Linux-based mobile phones, and Emuzed's audio and video applications, according to the companies.
This complete solution will allow customers to enter the world of Linux-based UMTS/EDGE smartphones in record time and benefit from Infineon's recognized experience and expertise in the area of dual-mode modem and system integration."
Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Business, System LSI division vice president Christopher D. Chang added, "This platform illustrates Samsung Electronics' outstanding capabilities in the mobile application processor and imaging areas, [and] demonstrates Samsung Electronics' leadership in providing a Linux solution for its line of mobile application processors targeting the smartphone market."
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