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NEC uses Agere Systems RF transistors for 3G base stations

January 26, 2004

Agere Systems announced it has delivered high-performance radio frequency (RF) power transistors to NEC for use in the company's 3G wireless base station equipment. 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 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'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," said Carlos Garcia, vice president and general manager with Agere Systems.

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 management 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.