Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Qualcomm Launches New Family of Chips for Mobile Consumer Devices

Qualcomm Incorporated, developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, announced a family of three new industry. These three chipset solutions are The QST1000, QST1100, and QST1105. They are a single platform of solutions with a range of highly integrated features and capabilities, including wireless connectivity, high-accuracy, multi-mode GPS positioning, support for broadcast mobile TV, and rich multimedia.

The new QST-series chipsets are designed to enable the next generation of wirelessly connected mobile entertainment, TV, navigation and mobile Internet browsing devices. The first commercial devices are sampling now and are expected to begin launching this year. 

"Qualcomm is quickly moving a step beyond cell phones and gaining strong customer traction in the consumer electronics market by delivering industry for the next evolutions of today’s most popular consumer electronics," said Luis Pineda, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. Pineda adds, with a complete range of QST solutions broadening their product portfolio for non-traditional wireless devices, they are well positioned to accelerate the evolution of personal navigation and entertainment gadgets. In addition to all these features, the QST1100 chipset adds wireless WAN connectivity for voice calls and data capabilities. The QST1105 also has a hardware-accelerated 2D/3D graphics core capable of performing up to 2.8 million triangles per second for compelling user interfaces and gaming applications.