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Independent Analysis of Semiconductors for Consumer Electronics


Volume 2, Issue 6  - Quiz Answers
July 9, 2007

 

The Linley Group has recently released the second edition of “A Guide to Wireless Handset Processors." This edition has been completely updated to cover the newest announced products in this market. It also covers business changes, such as the six acquisitions of handset-processor vendors or business units in the past year, as well as significant new design wins and shifts in market share.

ANSWERS TO HANDSET PROCESSOR QUIZ

1)
  Qualcomm’s MSM7200
2)
  MediaTek, with 5% market share
3)
  NXP (formerly Philips)
4)
  To provide CMOS RF transceivers that can be integrated into future baseband chips
5)
  Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP) licenses its baseband designs to customers
6)
  LoCosto-ULC sampled in May; eCosto sampled in June
7)
  Infineon’s E-GOLDradio and E-GOLDvoice use a 16-bit Infineon CPU instead of ARM
8)
  2010
9)
  Marvell’s PXA3x0 (Monahans) operates at up to 800MHz, versus 550MHz for OMAP3
10)
  Qualcomm’s QSC6240
11)
  Infineon’s S-GOLDradio
12)
  Renesas entered production on its SH-Mobile G1 and sampled SH-Mobile G2
13)
  Baseband processor shipments reached 1.125 billion units in 2006
14)
  Qualcomm announced the MDM8900 for Ultramobile Broadband (UMB)
15)
  Icera
16)
  InterDigital
17)
  TI’s OMAP3430 at 6 million shaded, textured triangles per second
18)
  Broadcom’s BCM21331
19)
  Analog Devices
20)
  Spreadtrum

SCORING:

0-4:
  You need to read the tutorial section in A Guide to Wireless Handset Processors
5-9:
  You need to read the market overview section in A Guide to Wireless Handset Processors
10-14:
  You need to read the vendor chapters in A Guide to Wireless Handset Processors
15-19:
  You need to read the product comparisons in A Guide to Wireless Handset Processors
20:
  You need to apply for a job at The Linley Group to write the next edition of A Guide to Wireless Handset Processors

 

 


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