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Skyworks Components in Samsung’s Award-winning FEMTO Cells
Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

April 16, 2008... Samsung recently won two prominent FEMTO cell awards. Skyworks reports that its transceivers, power amplifiers, and low noise amplifiers are in the award winning FEMTO cells. Samsung was awarded the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Best of Innovations 2008 in the Wireless Handsets Accessories category for UbiCell, a small, personal base station. UbiCell installs without any technical assistance and works with users’ mobile phones for secure, indoor cellular service over existing broadband networks. The Maeil Business Newspaper, one of the most influential economic daily in Korea, and the Korea Industrial Technology Association (KOITA) , operated by the Korean government, also gave Samsung an award FEMTO cells because of their technological importance, originality, and economic value.

“We want to thank Skyworks for their innovative portfolio of transceivers, power amplifiers and low-noise amplifiers for use in our FEMTO cell applications,” said Oh, Seung Cheol, senior engineer at Samsung. “We rely heavily on their high-quality Linear Products portfolio, and it ultimately contributed to Samsung winning these two prestigious awards.” Skyworks News Release

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