STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments Inc. will offer ICs, based on technology developed jointly with Nokia that together compose standard CDMA chipsets.

STMicro and TI will market the ICs to handset manufacturers worldwide for cdma2000 1X and 1xEV-DV (1x evolution for data and voice) mobile Internet handsets. Such technology has been incorporated in the Nokia-specific chipset used in its cdma2000 1X phones and its next generation phone sets. 

The deal also turns up the heat on Qualcomm, CDMA's presiding big-name player.

"CDMA handset manufacturers now have unprecedented choices to design innovative and competitive cdma2000 wireless products based on these open, standard CDMA chipset solutions from ST and TI," said Gilles Delfassy, senior VP of TI's wireless business unit, in a statement. "This will stimulate healthy competition in the CDMA market and fuel the growth and evolution of handset designs, features and roadmaps."

TI and STMicro said they are combining elements of their technologies into a portfolio of ICs to be based on open hardware interfaces, including interfaces to RF subsystems and application processors. An open application programming interface (API) for customization is also included.

The complete CDMA chipset solutions will include an analog baseband/power management chip, a digital baseband chip, associated protocol software, RF chips and reference designs, TI said. Development and testing tools and support will be available from both companies for their respective ICs.

By: DocMemory
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