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Technology Stocks : ADI: The SHARCs are circling! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2675)	2/26/2001 12:57:31 PM
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Semi-OT:3G or not 3G? By Darrell Dunn, EBN Feb 23, 2001 (1:53 PM) URL: siliconstrategies.com DALLAS, Tex. -- Silicon manufacturers, OEMs, and service providers continue to push aggressively to accelerate the availability and demand for high bandwidth in cellular handsets and related portable devices, even as estimates for the implementation of the technology continues to be pushed further into the future, and some question the need for increased capabilities. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, this week leading semiconductor suppliers announced new chip implementations for the 2.5 and 3G handset market, and Texas Instruments Inc. revealed the creation of a $100 million investment fund intended to advanced third-party development of software for wireless Internet applications. But also at the conference, French telecom-equipment manufacturer Alcatel predicted that 3G UMTS phones will not hit the market before 2004, a year later than the company had previously announced..... Doug Grant, director of business development for Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, Mass., said there should be little doubt that applications that will take advantage of the increased bandwidth will emerge. At the GSM conference, "we heard some really crazy ideas of real project people are working on," he said. "Arguing against more bandwidth is hard to defend," Grant said. "Back in the '50s when the Interstate highway systems was being built there were people saying we don't need no stinkin' highways. Most people lived close to where they worked and there were already highways that made it all the way across the country. But now we've seen the Interstate highway system change basically every phase of American society. There were also those that said PCs would never need more than 640K of memory." While WLAN will serve a growing market, handheld equipment users will not want to be dependent on being able to find an access point at a given airport or hotel, Grant said, and even the data task of email is placing increased demands for downloading attachments...... ADI announced that as expected, it will incorporate its new Frio DSP, co-developed with Intel Corp., it is SoftFone baseband processor for 2.5 and 3G handsets, replacing the ADSP218x currently used in the platform. Depending on the exact form the handset eventually takes, the Frio will be combined with an ARM7 to create a communications processor. For the companion applications processor, ADI expects to utilize a combination of the Frio and ARM, the Frio alone, or even a separate standalone RISC processor, Grant said.