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To: w molloy who wrote (8449)	4/8/2000 7:06:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Good point, molloy. Noted co-incidental publication date of March 22, 2000 on some of the IDC items with the some of the NOK filings in earlier post. I find it interesting that there are IDC filings for both a soft hand-off variant and a Viterbi decoder adaptation. Here's a link for one of the 3/22/00 filings, the spread spectrum CDMA transmitter (requires Adobe Acrobat): l2.espacenet.com <snip> You looked for the following: (Interdigital)<APPLICANT> 351 matching documents were found. To see further result lists select a number from the JumpBar above. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click on any of the Patent Numbers below to see the details of the patent -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basket Patent Number Title CN1241346T Seamless handoff system and method EP0987913 Spread spectrum cdma transmitter AU2477699 Multipath cdma receiver for reduced pilot EP0986188 Code division multiple access (CDMA) modem EP0986187 A pilot vector correlator apparatus for a CDMA modem EP0986186 Adaptive matched filter CN1239615T Method and appts. for generating complex four-phase sequences for CDMA communication system CN1239611T Global channel power control to minimie spillover in wireless communication environment US6026117 Method and apparatus for generating complex four-phase sequences for a CDMA communication system EP0984577 A code sequence generator apparatus for a CDMA modem EP0978168 ORTHOGONAL CODE SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPREAD SPECTRUM CDMA COMMUNICATIONS US6014374 Subscriber RF telephone system for providing multiple speech and/or data signals simultaneously over either a single or a plurality of RF ch US6014373 Spread spectrum CDMA subtractive interference canceler system US6011789 Broadband CDMA overlay system and method US6008918 Optical interconnect for high speed processor US6006174 Multiple impulse excitation speech encoder and decoder US6005898 Multichannel viterbi decoder US6003770 Wireless telephone debit card system and method US6000464 Electronic component cooling system AU3356199 Modular base station with variable communication capacity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: THIS IS WAY, WAY BEYOND MY CAPABILITY TO COMPREHEND!

To: w molloy who wrote (8449)	4/10/2000 6:11:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

PRESS RELEASE: Conexant Sys Expands Calif. Plant Dow Jones Newswires ( BW)(CA-CONEXANT)(CNXT) Conexant Increases Manufacturing Capacity Five-Fold for Wireless Communications and Optical Networking Products Business Editors NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000-- Company Solidifies Position As The World's Largest Independent Merchant Market Supplier Of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Semiconductor Products Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) Monday announced that it has completed a major expansion of its gallium arsenide (GaAs) manufacturing facilities in Newbury Park, Calif., in support of its two fastest-growing divisions, wireless communications and network access. The expansion has increased capacity to a record 75,000 four-inch wafer starts per year, as compared with 15,000 annual wafer starts just one year ago. Conexant invested approximately $80 million in capital equipment to achieve this five-fold increase in capacity. Conexant will further increase GaAs manufacturing capacity to 95,000 four-inch equivalent wafer starts annually by the end of this calendar year. Additionally, the new manufacturing equipment that Conexant has installed in its expanded facilities can be upgraded to process six-inch wafers. This conversion would increase available capacity to approximately 210,000 four-inch equivalent wafer starts annually. Conexant will use the majority of its expanded capacity to manufacture GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) power amplifiers for the rapidly growing, digital cellular handset marketplace addressed by its Wireless Communications Division. GaAs HBT is the technology of choice for power amplifiers because of its ability to maximize a digital cellular handset's power efficiency and handset battery life. Conexant's power amplifiers support industry standards for code division multiple access (CDMA), global system for mobile communications (GSM), and time division multiple access (TDMA) digital cellular handsets. They also provide the enhanced performance and power efficiency that will be required for future wideband CDMA standards and for third-generation (3G) wireless voice and data deployment. "The market for digital cellular handsets is forecasted to continue its growth at greater than 50 percent annually for the next several years," said Moiz Beguwala, senior vice president and general manager for Conexant's Wireless Communications Division. "This expansion gives us the capacity to increase our global market share and solidifies our position as the world's largest independent merchant market supplier of GaAs semiconductor products." Conexant will also use the expanded capacity to manufacture GaAs-HBT-based transceivers for optical communications, addressed by its Network Access Division. "We are seeing explosive demand with growth rates greater than 100 percent annually for high-speed networking front-end transceivers in the fiber-optic backbone of today's multi-service communications networks," said Raouf Halim, senior vice president and general manager of the company's Network Access Division. "The expanded capacity will help satisfy the demand for these products, which are at the core of today's rapidly expanding Internet and telephony infrastructure."