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Successful completion of phone call using Comlent TD-SCDMA transceiver
April 10, 2006
Comlent Technology, China's radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design house, announced that its transceiver for 3G mobile terminals (TD-SCDMA standard) successfully completed a phone call on a TD-SCDMA network. Comlent is the first Chinese RFIC chip company to achieve this milestone. Strong local transceiver and baseband IC (BBIC) chipset support could further accelerate the technology readiness for China's upcoming 3G deployment. Previously, only two U.S. companies were providing TD-SCDMA transceiver samples to five BBIC chip companies and over twenty mobile terminal design houses in China.
As the world's largest mobile handset market, China's total number of mobile subscribers is projected to reach 441 million by the end of this year, with annual growth of approximately 50 million, according to the China Ministry of Information Industry (MII). China also manufactures most of the world's mobile handsets for both domestic and overseas markets. According to MII, in 2005, China manufactured approximately 290 million mobile handsets, or over 40% of the world's projected total handset output in the year.
"As China's first mass production proven RFIC design house, Comlent's mission is to provide local mobile and portable consumer markets with world-class RF and mixed signal chip solutions that have been missing in China," stated Dr. Kai Chen, President and CEO of Comlent. "Comlent will continue to closely work with our strategic partners such as Commit, a leading TD-SCDMA baseband IC company and Jazz Semiconductor, a leading U.S. semiconductor foundry specializing in RF, high voltage, and analog processes, to provide the most competitive product, best service and strongest local support to China's 3G market."
"Jazz Semiconductor is pleased to support Comlent as its foundry partner. RFIC transceivers are complex chips to design. The achievement of mass production of their earlier transceiver chips for PHS mobile handsets and the recent success of the 3G transceiver design, are commendable milestones to achieve," stated Marco Racanelli, vice president of technology and engineering at Jazz Semiconductor." Jazz will continue to support Comlent as they pursue their strategic commitment to the emerging Chinese market."
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