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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tradeyourstocks who wrote (294)	7/6/2000 1:52:56 AM
From: mightylakers	Respond to of 197563

Can the two chip rates be supported by a single ASIC? I think MSM5200 is supposed to do that. Are the differences in acquisition and handoff for WCDMA intended to bypass certain "soft-handoff" patents of Qualcomm? The asynchronous mode is, IMO, because GSM doesn't need BS synchronization? As for soft handoff. I don't see anyone can bypass it, not the principal. You may change the some details, such as in WCDMA due to its asynchronous nature make it more difficult to give a quick and accurate estimation of the possible handoff environment, so someone may need to come up with some ideas, however how to do the handoff should remain about the same IMO. I do remember reading a presentation from WP-CDMA(yet another version of W-CDMA LOL, by ATT, GBT, IDC etc), it proposes hard handover. Arguing the wider bandwidth makes SH advantage over HH diminishing. Well I don't understand why the arguement, but it looks like an attempt to avoid SH.