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News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: RF power transistors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 January 2004
RF power transistors keep NEC's
basestations cool
Agere Systems is supplying high-performance RF power transistors to NEC for use in the company's third-generation (3G) wireless basestation equipment.
Agere Systems is supplying high-performance RF power transistors to NEC for use in the company's third-generation (3G) wireless basestation equipment These devices enable NEC's basestation amplifiers to remain cooler, thereby simplifying product design and improving its reliability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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To ensure high reliability, Agere's transistors used by NEC in its W-CDMA wireless basestations have successfully passed NEC's rigorous evaluation and testing and Agere's own qualification process.
The RF transistors use laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) technology, and are fully qualified and in volume production today.
"The use of Agere transistors in our basestations will accelerate our company's 3G wireless equipment deployment during the next few years", said Dr Nobuhiro Endo, General Manager of NEC's Mobile and Wireless Division.
"Power efficiency is extremely important in a Wideband CDMA basestation design, and Agere's transistors delivered the performance required.
Agere's wealth of technical expertise, customer support and products that passed our rigorous reliability testing clinched our decision to go with their family of products".
"NEC is one of the world's prime wireless equipment companies, and Agere is excited to be providing some of our newest products to them", said Carlos Garcia, Vice President and General Manager with Agere Systems.
"NEC's selection of our products validates Agere's ability to produce and deliver high-performance RF transistors to an industry leader in deployment of operational 3G basestation equipment".
This selection also underscores the close relationship Agere and NEC have been developing for the past several years.
For example, Agere provides its high-performance traffic management and ATM chips to NEC for 3G CDMA basestation equipment.
Agere ranks second worldwide in sales of chips for wireless infrastructure applications.
Agere also equips NEC with traffic management chips for use in NEC's high-speed router family, and GPRS wireless data chips for NEC cellular phones.
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