Open the Kimono (slowly)
Trevor,
<< It sure is amazing the mileage gotten by the "orignal" samsung chip article. Samsung has yet to say boo hoo on the matter. >>
Keep em guessing.
"Sales and marketing is like uh, well, sex. For best results, open the kimono just a little, then close it a walk away. So the other person can either hanker for more, or not. But in no case would it be kosher to strip down on that first date. That takes all the fun out of it for the other person."
Not every company lives and dies by press releases udderred 3 years in advance of whole product delivery, and not every company rips their kimono open in one quick movement, or outlines their whole business sand development strategy in whitepapers for their adoring fans.
Samsung was directly quoted in the 1st article I saw on this last September, and most analysts that closely follow handsets have been aware that the handset model with Samsung's own chipset didn't get into qualification at KTF "as early as October, but it did by end of year.
Perry LaForge almost dropped his teeth the first time that Samsung announced their IS-95-A/B chipsets. They did it in the CDG Digevent in spring or summer of 2001. no press release, no, leaks to the media. Kapow. The Digeventis still in the CDG archives.
That was all part of the same 3 year project. To make a 1xRTT chipset you first have to master IS-95-A/B for forward, backward compatability. In some countries you can possibly get by without IS-95B but you can't in Korea or Hong Kong.
I seriously doubt that the Korea IT News made up this "high-ranking official" of Samsung
Samsung Electronics embarked on developing 3G original chip (project name: SCom 5000) in 2000 and commercialized it in three years, it announced on Mar. 31. A high-ranking official of the company said:
"We will begin the distribution of mobile phone terminals that adopted cdma2000 1x chip independently developed to KTF within the month. The 3G chip is likely to be used not only in domestic but also export models."
But Qualcomm says its just a negotiating ploy and they claim that Samsung has produced a few hundred thousand IS-95-A/B chips and Samsung evidently seems to think its closer to a million.
Best,
- Eric - |
