Generation UMTS

27th January , 2004

Europe : Agere Systems announced it has delivered high-performance radio frequency (RF) power transistors to NEC for use in the company's third-generation (3G) wireless base station equipment.

Inset is Carlos Garcia, vice president Agere Systems who is quoted below.

 

These devices enable NEC's base station amplifiers to remain cooler, thereby simplifying product design and improving its reliability.

To ensure high reliability, Agere's transistors used by NEC in its Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) wireless base stations have successfully passed NEC's rigorous evaluation and testing and Agere's own qualification process. The RF transistors use laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) technology, and are fully qualified and in volume production today.

'The use of Agere transistors in our base stations will accelerate our company's 3G wireless equipment deployment during the next few years,'said Dr. Nobuhiro Endo, general manager of NEC's Mobile and Wireless Division. 'Power efficiency is extremely important in a Wideband CDMA base station design, and Agere's transistors delivered the performance required. Agere's wealth of technical expertise, customer support and products that passed our rigorous reliability testing clinched our decision to go with their family of products.'

'NEC is one of the world's prime wireless equipment companies, and Agere is excited to be providing some of our newest products to them,'said Carlos Garcia, vice president and general manager with Agere Systems. 'NEC's selection of our products validates Agere's ability to produce and deliver high-performance RF transistors to an industry leader in deployment of operational 3G base station equipment.'

This selection also underscores the close relationship Agere and NEC have been developing for the past several years. For example, Agere provides its high-performance traffic manage ment and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) chips to NEC for 3G CDMA base station equipment. Agere ranks second worldwide in sales of chips for wireless infrastructure applications*.

Agere also equips NEC with traffic management chips for use in NEC's high-speed router family, and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) wireless data chips for NEC cellular phones.

Agere Systems is a premier provider of advanced integrated circuit solutions for wireless data, high-density storage and multiservice networking applications. Agere's wireless data portfolio enables seamless network access and Internet connectivity through its GPRS offering for data-capable cellular phones, as well as Wi-Fi/802.11 solutions for wireless LANs and computing applications. The company is the market leader in providing integrated circuits for the hard disk drive market, with number one positions in sales of system-on-a-chip solutions and preamplifiers. Agere also provides custom and standard multiservice networking solutions to move information across wired, wireless and enterprise networks. Agere's customers include the leading PC manufacturers, wireless terminal providers, network equipment suppliers and hard-disk drive providers.

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