
US
: QUALCOMM Incorporated announced the Company has achieved HSDPA data
rates of 3.6 Mbps with major infrastructure vendors using test terminals
based on QUALCOMM's Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM6280 solution.
"We
have gone from sampling the MSM6280 chipset to achieving 3.6 Mbps
calls in interoperability testing with infrastructure vendors in less
than two months, and anticipate reaching data rates of 7.2 Mbps in
the near future," said Luis Pineda, senior vice president of
marketing and product management for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "Taking
advantage of our prior work in making the MSM6275 HSDPA solution commercially
available has resulted in an accelerated schedule for the pin-, RF-
and software-compatible MSM6280, and offers quicker time-to-market
by allowing existing MSM6275 designs to be leveraged for new, advanced
devices supporting even higher speeds."
QUALCOMM
powered the industry's first HSDPA-enabled devices with its MSM6275(TM)
solution supporting data rates of up to 1.8 Mbps. The second-generation
MSM6280 single-chip baseband supports WCDMA (UMTS)/HSDPA and is backward
compatible with GSM/GPRS/EDGE (EGPRS) standards. Designed to support
data rates of up to 7.2 Mbps on the downlink, the solution also integrates
a wide range of multimedia features, including advanced video, audio,
imaging and 3D graphics capabilities.
QUALCOMM's
chipset solutions support the Launchpad(TM) suite of advanced multimedia,
connectivity, position location, user interface and removable storage
functionality, as well as QUALCOMM's BREW(R) solution. The BREW solution
enables the development and monetization of advanced applications
and content, allowing operators and OEMs to differentiate their products
and services and increase revenues. The Company's chipsets are also
compatible
with the Java(TM) runtime environment; J2ME(TM) can be built entirely
on the chipset as an extension to the BREW client.