Infineon Technologies AG announced that Samsung
Electronics, Inc., Seoul, Korea, has chosen Infineon’s HSDPA Platform
XMM 6080 for their new family of HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) mobile handsets.
Samsung is introducing a comprehensive family using the Infineon XMM
6080 platform. The platform includes the HSDPA/EDGE baseband, power
management, single chip 3.5G RF transceiver and is complemented by
Infineon’s protocol stack for HEDGE phones.
This solution enables customers to significantly
reduce their component count, footprint, complexity and cost of
designs. The XMM 6080 platform will enable Samsung to
introduce a wide range of new HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) phones reusing the
proven Infineon core architecture.
Infineon has already started volume shipments of its platform. The
Samsung HEDGE phones with the XMM 6080 are expected to be available in
the second quarter of calendar year 2008.
Further information on Infineon’s product portfolio for communication solutions is available at http://www.infineon.com/wireless