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To: slacker711 who wrote (48538)	11/8/2005 6:11:31 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196534

QUALCOMM Ships Second Billion Chips to Meet Surge in Demand 08.11.2005 - 11:44 Uhr, Qualcomm Incorporated [Pressemappe] London, November 8 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Outpacing Expectations, Milestone Follows Just Two Years After First Billion Chips Shipped - QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced that the Company has shipped two billion chips since 1996 when it delivered the first commercial CDMA solutions to wireless handset and infrastructure customers. QUALCOMM marked the shipment of the first billion chips in 2003, marking an exceptional acceleration in the quantity of chips being delivered to the wireless industry. QUALCOMM's chipsets have been instrumental in the robust growth of CDMA technology and helped make the Company the largest provider of third-generation (3G) technology today. "To reach such a significant milestone as a second billion chips shipped in only two years reinforces QUALCOMM's stellar growth and leadership position in the wireless industry," said Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "Our continuing expansion into new markets and solid commitment to the success of our industry partners has enabled the rapid deployment and advancement of wireless technologies around the world. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers and partners, and above all, QUALCOMM employees for helping us reach this important milestone." QUALCOMM solutions power a significant number of the more than 740 commercial CDMA2000(R) and WCDMA (UMTS) wireless devices available today. These devices include 3G multimedia and gaming devices; still-image camera and video phones; high-accuracy GPS positioning-enabled phones and dedicated tracking devices; smartphones and wireless PDAs; and low-cost voice and basic data phones that allow operators to provide entry-level services, leveraging the superior network capacity provided by CDMA-based standards. QUALCOMM has integrated a greater number of functions into its solutions, enabling the development of cost-effective devices with key features that take advantage of the larger bandwidth available on 3G networks. These features -- multimedia, connectivity, storage, position-location, and user-interface capabilities from the Launchpad(TM) suite of integrated technologies -- have enabled support for multi-megapixel cameras, video telephony, streaming multimedia content, 3D gaming, CD-quality audio playback, DVD-quality video playback, and comprehensive GPS position-location technology. QUALCOMM provides the industry with highly integrated, cost-effective chipsets including baseband modems, radio frequency integrated circuits (ICs), power management (PM) ICs, and supporting system software. There are more than 150 CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and WCDMA operators in 71 countries who currently support more than 210 million 3G subscribers around the world (source: 3Gtoday.com).

To: slacker711 who wrote (48538)	11/8/2005 10:38:16 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196534

QUALCOMM's ARMv7 based Scorpion ... Cool move, becoming an ARM architecture licensee which "enables the licensee to develop their own CPU implementations compliant with ARM's Instruction Set Architecture. The architecture licensee must have extensive design resources and the highest level of implementation expertise." arm.com Intel and Texas Instruments are both ARM architecture licensees (but evidently not yet for the ARMv7 instruction set). ARM Holdings slide set on the ARMv7 Processor Architecture here ... arm.com >> Qualcomm Crawls into MPUs with Scorpion Electronic News 11/8/2005 tinyurl.com Qualcomm claims to have entered the microprocessor arena, today announcing its new "Scorpion” mobile MPU and an expanded partnership with intellectual property kingpin ARM to include an architectural license. However, in its statements out of London this morning the company did not make it clear if Scorpion is in the design phase or working silicon, or if the company plans to sell the technology to its competitors or keep it locked up for internal use only. What the cell phone giant did make clear is that it is now a licensee of the ARMv7 architecture, highly coveted intellectual property (IP) in the consumer electronics world. "Qualcomm’s partnership with ARM as the first architecture licensee of the ARMv7 instruction set brings a new dimension to the ARM technology-compliant processor portfolio for mobile applications," said Warren East, CEO of ARM, in a statement. Qualcomm described its 65nm Scorpion as the first microprocessor to be specifically designed and optimized for integration into Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) solutions and a chip that “enables the convergence of mobile handsets with consumer electronics features by delivering superior performance and reduced power demands in mobile environment.” Qualcomm did not detail what consumer electronics features Scorpion will target, nor did it detail the MPU’s reduced power. San Diego-based Qualcomm did note that Scorpion will perform at a speed reaching 1GHz or to eight times the performance of existing MSM solutions, and that more information on MSM platforms and products using Scorpion will come next year. "The integration of the Scorpion microprocessor brings an unsurpassed 1GHz of performance and efficiency to Qualcomm's MSM solutions and makes it ideally suited for the next generation of the company's chipsets," said Sanjay K. Jha, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, in a statement. "Qualcomm's long-standing leadership in the wireless market and our expansion into the microprocessor industry with the development of Scorpion enable a highly optimized solution designed for the world's most advanced mobile devices." The companion multimedia coprocessor to Scorpion implements ARM Neon technology to provide an additional 8 billion operations per second for added multimedia capabilities. Qualcomm’s previous solutions are based on a core implementation license from ARM. << - Eric -