Infineon and Nokia to Collaborate on LTE Solution Development
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Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

November 30, 2009... Infineon Technologies AG of Neubiberg, Germany, and Nokia announced a cooperative agreement to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) transceiver solutions. The agreement between the two wireless solution providers is a collaboration to ensure the compatibility and interworking of Nokia’s advanced licensable baseband modem technologies and Infineon’s RF solutions. The companies say that the collaboration will develop a verified technology reference platform for complete modem solutions for HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) through LTE (Long Term Evolution) and beyond. The companies hope that the collaboration will help drive the interface standardization for LTE-Advanced, which would enable data rates of up to 1Gbit/s.

“Pairing Nokia’s advanced modem technology and Infineon’s best in class RF transceiver solutions, will give the industry access to very competitive chipset solutions,” commented Professor Hermann Eul, member of the Infineon management board.

“Taking advantage of each company's expertise as leaders in their respective fields, this cooperation will help to deliver standard-based, industry leading solutions for mobile internet devices,” said Pekka Sarlund, Vice President, Wireless Modem, Nokia. Infineon News Release

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