QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies' WCDMA Mobile Station Modem Selected by Samsung Electronics Ltd.
MSM5200 Integrated Circuit and System Software to Power Samsung's WCDMA Handsets
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2001--QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - news), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced that Samsung Electronics Ltd. has selected QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies' (QCT) MSM5200(TM) Mobile Station Modem (MSM(TM)) integrated circuit and system software solution for the handsets Samsung is developing to meet the IMT-2000 Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) mode for the third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). Samsung selected the MSM5200 solution based on QCT's system expertise and track record of proven, commercially available CDMA products.
``WCDMA is one of the principal CDMA standards, and QCT provides leadership and depth of CDMA expertise unparalleled in the industry,'' said K.T. Lee, CEO and executive vice president of Samsung. ``QCT's MSM5200 solution will allow us to provide our customers with advanced WCDMA handsets offering competitive system performance, the richest feature sets and wireless Internet capabilities.''
``The MSM5200 solution demonstrates QCT's leadership in all versions of CDMA,'' said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. ``QCT's integrated circuits and system software enable partners such as Samsung to introduce new technologies quickly and confidently because QCT provides evolutionary solutions that offer new capabilities and features based on existing, proven CDMA technology.''
The MSM5200 solution supports 384 kbps and is based on QCT's system expertise and proven, commercially available products. The MSM5200 solution offers the integrated features of QCT's Wireless Internet Launchpad(TM) suite of advanced technologies and software, including SnapTrack(TM) position-location technology, Bluetooth(TM) connectivity capabilities, UMTS Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), and multimedia features such as Qtunes(TM) Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG-1) Layer-3 (MP3) player software support and Compact Media Extension (CMX(TM)) Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)-based multimedia software. The MSM5200 solution is also capable of interfacing to QCT's Mobile Station Processor (MSP(TM)) microprocessor family, which is designed to perform the functions associated with personal digital assistant (PDA) applications, including support for streaming video using PacketVideo's PVPlayer(TM) MPEG-4 streaming media decoder.
The combination of features offered by the MSM5200 solution will allow manufacturers to develop a wide range of feature-rich products for wireless multimedia applications -- from standard voice-and-data handsets to smart phones that include voice, data, multimedia and organizer capabilities -- quickly, securely and cost efficiently.
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I love the dissonant tone this generates as it lays atop recent controversial comments by management...
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