Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia and Jurong Technologies industrial Corporation are pleased to announce that Jurong Technologies, through its subsidiary I-Sirius Pte Ltd, has selected Fujitsu as its WiMAX baseband SoC partner. I-Sirius will use Fujitsu’s Mobile WiMAX baseband SoC, which is fully compliant with IEEE802.16e-2005 standard, to develop WiMAX products such as embedded modules, USB dongles and Express cards.
Both companies will also collaborate on strategic product positioning to enhance market penetration of these products. The companies will showcase the latest WiMAX products from their collaboration at the Fujitsu booth (C6-1, Hall 2) during the 2008 WiMAX Expo, Taipei in Taipei Show Hall 2 to be held from 2nd to 6th June 2008.
“We are pleased to enter into this landmark collaboration with Fujitsu, a global leader in WiMAX technologies, as we are very impressed with their open technical policy, comprehensive hardware and software documentation, and competitive reference design pricing,” said Mr Cheang Chee Ming, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jurong Technologies. “Through this co-operation, we are confident of providing flexible first-class WiMAX products based on Fujitsu's WiMAX SoC.”
“Jurong Technologies is a world class global EMS/ODM company offering modules of various wireless technologies for mobile communication, with a track record of shipping more than 100M modules to customers worldwide. Fujitsu Microelectronics is glad to form-up a strategic alliance with Jurong Technologies, we are confident in bringing a high performance and competitive WiMAX product into the market. They are an outstanding partner in leading-edge WiMAX solutions.” said Andy Chang, Marketing Director of Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd.
Fujitsu WiMAX Baseband SoC solution is a IEEE802.16e-2005, WiMAX Forum Wave2 (MiMO) profile compliant which supports Beamforming, Matrix A and Matrix B. Fujitsu has already field-tested these features with real BS through air interface, and is ready for the Wave 2 certification. Fujitsu’s mobile WiMAX SoC delivers high throughput which is close to the theoretical maximum achievable with MiMO.
Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd
