Qualcomm and Teleepoch Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October 6, 2007

MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6, 2007

Brazilian government to publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007

KTF 3G service suffers from technical problems, October 6, 2007

Argentina’s Personal lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007

Russia has it's first 3G network, October 6, 2007

AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007

Enea Extends License Agreement with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007

LG to unveil premium handsets in Brazil, October 2, 2007

KTF 3G subscribers doubled in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007

3G policy in India will be non-uniform, October 2, 2007

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STMicroelectronics selects ARM to power advanced handheld devices

October 24, 2006

ARM announced that STMicroelectronics has joined the community of licensees of the high-performance ARM Cortex-A8 processor. As STMicroelectronics expands its presence in next-generation mobile devices, it intends to deploy the Cortex-A8 processor across its mobile technology portfolio, delivering desktop performance to a wide range of affordable mobile phones and portable multimedia devices. By combining the performance and power benefits of the ARM Cortex-A8 processor with its own multi-faceted Nomadik(R) multimedia applications processors, STMicroelectronics can deliver advanced performance and functionality to end-users.

Multimedia electronics manufacturers must deliver convergence of content and communications, necessitating higher system performance in a low-power environment. The ARM Cortex-A8 processor enables STMicroelectronics' customers in the personal multimedia electronics and handset manufacturing space, to deliver more than three times the performance of ARM11 family-based devices for 3G applications such as mobile gaming, video calling and location-based mapping services. The Cortex-A8 processor was specifically designed with such services in mind, while still enabling systems designers to meet stringent time-to-market demands.

"The next generation of personal multimedia electronics devices must incorporate advanced functionality, with the processing power needed to drive the rich content demanded by the end-user such as mobile games, video-on-demand, 3G map services and multi-megapixel cameras," said Jyrki Hannikainen, Application Processor Division general manager, STMicroelectronics. "By combining ARM's flagship Cortex-A8 processor, with the distributed processing of the Nomadik multimedia platform, ST will keep delivering truly compelling high performance, and low-power solution to the market."

The processor is supported by a wide range of ARM technologies for rapid system design including the new RealView Developer Suite 3.0; CoreSight(TM) debug and trace technology; and software library support through the OpenMAX multimedia processing standard.

The Cortex-A8 processor is the first applications processor based on the next-generation ARMv7 architecture, and features Thumb-2 technology for greater performance, energy efficiency, and code density. It includes the first implementation of the powerful NEON signal processing extensions to accelerate media codecs such as H.264 and MP3. The Cortex-A8 solution also includes Jazelle-RCT Java acceleration technology to optimize Just In Time (JIT) and Dynamic Adaptive Compilation (DAC), and reduces memory footprint by up to three times. Additionally, the new processor features TrustZone technology for secure transactions and Digital Rights Management (DRM), and IEM capability for low power.