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To: quartersawyer who wrote (4281)	4/19/2000 10:31:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

And the interesting question here is whether there is a market for these chips. According to the DDI executive, cdma2000 is seriously late. If all of Asia and Europe goes W-CDMA - do they really need chipsets that are compatible with Qualcomm's own standards? Are manufacturers willing to pay a premium for these chipsets over plain vanilla W-CDMA chipsets? That's the problem with niche standards. If one standard gets over 80% of the world market, most manufacturers will just concentrate on it, ignoring the minor alternative. Qualcomm needs to catch up with the global W-CDMA development effort and do cdma2000 simultaneously. Now we get to see just how smart their engineers are. Tero