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To: Drew Williams who wrote (3115)	2/24/1999 3:56:00 PM
From: djane	of 29987

IBD article. IBM And Qualcomm Wireless phone pioneer Qualcomm Inc. might use an emerging chip technology from IBM Corp. for future cell phones. President Richard Sulpizio says Qualcomm is taking a serious look at IBM's silicon-germanium - or SiGe (pronounced Siggy) -chip. IBM Vice President Ronald Soicher confirms that Qualcomm has evaluated the product. Date: 2/24/99 Big Blue has been trying to boost SiGe since the early 1990s. Soicher says SiGE would help Qualcomm reduce the number of chips needed in cell phones. That could let Qualcomm make smaller cell phones with longer battery life. Most chips are made from thin wafers of silicon. But to speed chip circuitry, an alternative material called gallium arsenide has been used at times. Silicon-germanium is an alternative to gallium arsenide that IBM says is well-suited for wireless devices. Corralling Qualcomm would be a big win for IBM, analysts say. A pact with IBM would also help Qualcomm keep its ranking as the leading supplier of chips for a cell phone standard called code division multiple access. Qualcomm pioneered CDMA, but it also licensed it to other companies to build a market. Now Qualcomm faces competition from a crop of licensees, including DSP Communications Inc. and LSI Logic Corp. Without mentioning IBM, Qualcomm said at a trade show this month that SiGe chips could be in its plans by late this year. - Reinhardt Krause

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