Cellular 3G Unveiled Baseband Chip Breakthrough for 3G Mobile Devices Slashes Power Consumption by up to 90%

date: March 14, 2002

Cellular 3G, a provider of silicon solutions for 3G wireless devices, today unveiled the industry's most power-efficient, high-bit-rate W-CDMA 3G-baseband chip, TopHat, at the 16th Annual CeBIT conference, in Hanover, Germany.

TopHat is capable of providing near-LAN applications on 3G handheld devices using only a fraction of the power consumption compared to chip implementations based on traditional technologies and architecture. With Cellular 3G's powerful TopHat baseband chip, wireless service providers can offer always-on Internet access and high-speed bandwidth-intensive applications, such as video, to any mobile device including wireless phones, palm held devices and Blackberries.

In a related release, Cellular 3G also announced today that it has joined forces with Sasken to introduce the first chip capable of supporting 2MB wireless connections, which it will demonstrate this week in its booth (Hall 12, D79) at the CeBIT exhibition in Hanover, Germany.

"Advanced wireless applications place heavy demands on processors and batteries," said Warren Wilson, senior analyst at Summit Strategies. "Companies like Cellular 3G are advancing the state of the art so that handsets can deliver these applications with a combination of good performance, low heat and good battery life."

Delivering a connectivity solution with the speed and computation power required for sending and receiving 3G applications in a form factor compact enough for mobile devices is a major cost and technical challenge. Cellular 3G is meeting the challenge with a revolutionary baseband chip that offers high data throughput, excellent radio performance and long battery life with a footprint of only 12mm X 12mm, necessary for mobile devices such as phones, PDAs and laptop computers. Cellular 3G's TopHat(TM) is the first to employ full implementation of the 3GPP W-CDMA FDD standard and offers a multi-receiver architecture for better radio performance that enables up to 2Mbps data transfer in both directions with very low power consumption.

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