QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies Announces Widespread Adoption of Compact Media Extension Software in the Japanese CDMA Market
World's First Fully Integrated Wireless Multimedia Solution that Combines High-Quality Music, Text and Graphics to Enable Advanced Wireless Multimedia Services
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000-- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq:QCOM - news), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced adoption of the Company's Compact Media Extension (CMX(TM)) Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)-based multimedia software by most of the leading Japanese handset manufacturers for use on the Japanese cdmaOne(TM) networks. CMX software is easily added to handset designs and provides support for applications requiring time-synchronized multimedia outputs of MIDI-based music, text and graphics on wireless CDMA handsets. Representing a low-cost, fully integrated solution, CMX software is designed for use with QUALCOMM's Mobile Station Modem (MSM(TM)) MSM3100(TM), MSM3300(TM) and MSM5100(TM) chipsets, and is a key component of Qualcomm's Wireless Internet Launchpad(TM) suite -- which offers state-of-the-art multimedia, connectivity, position location, user interface and removable storage functionality to handset manufacturers.
``We are pleased to recommend CMX software to our handset suppliers so that we can offer new wireless multimedia services to our customers,'' said Makoto Takahashi, general manager of the Service Planning Department of DDI. ``CMX software quickly and inexpensively gives us a broad supply of handsets with the features and capabilities we need to implement our new services.''
``QUALCOMM is committed to providing manufacturers with solutions to drive the deployment of leading-edge, consumer-oriented wireless Internet services based on multimedia applications,'' said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. ``As part of QUALCOMM's Wireless Internet Launchpad suite, the CMX software will allow faster time-to-market with lower cost for manufacturers who wish to offer consumers new wireless content and entertainment capabilities in their handsets.''
CMX software uses a MIDI-based time coordination scheme to synchronize music, text and graphical data, providing a true multimedia environment for wireless handsets. CMX software is highly flexible and, because it is decoder-independent with respect to graphic data, the CMX solution can be easily integrated with a variety of graphic decoders and can be customized by the CDMA handset manufacturer to support a wide range of wireless multimedia services.
Possible services that CMX software will enable include downloadable screen savers that incorporate graphics and music, greeting card services, including animated musical birthday ``cards'' and much more.
CMX software contains a fully featured MIDI-based wave table synthesizer capable of synthesizing high-quality music output. The synthesizer is optimized to run on QUALCOMM's QDSP2000(TM) digital processing core and is capable of 16-polyphony, 128-instrument music.
CMX-based multimedia services will be offered by DDI and IDO starting this month. |
