Infineon Technologies AG recently announced that the first E-GOLDvoice chip produced in Dresden worked at the first attempt, and has already been used to make phone calls on GSM networks. E-GOLDvoice is said to be the most highly integrated chip for mobile telephony, combining all of a mobile phone’s essential electronic components in an area measuring 8 8mm2. This highly integrated chip can further reduce the materials costs of a complete mobile phone.
Manufactured using mature 130nm CMOS technology, the GSM chip is claimed to be the first in the world to integrate on a single-chip not just the baseband processor and the RF part that carries voice between the handset and the basestation, but also the SRAM memory and power management. Previously, the power management chip alone took up an area measuring 7 7mm2.
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