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With Mitsubishi Electric
New high-frequency integrated circuit technologies for IMT-2000 terminals have been developed by SK Telecom.
The Central Research and Development Center of SK Telecom (President: Jung Uck Seo) said that it succeeded in developing the radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and the intermediate frequency integrated circuit (IFIC), both important components allowing IMT-2000 terminals to process high radio frequency, after two years of collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan.
The new technology will allow SK Telecom to manufacture terminals that deliver video contents at a maximum speed of 2Mbps in broadband CDMA mode and to offer smaller, lighter terminals from the roll-out stage of IMT-2000 services by reducing dramatically the size of the core components.
The new technology puts all the functions of low-noise amplifier, downward frequency modifier, power amplifier, upward frequency modifier and automatic transmission controller into four small chips designed to set off at the low voltage of 3.3 to reduce required power.
SK Telecom began to work on the broadband CDMA technology for IMT-2000 services since 1994 and succeeded in developing modem ASIC chip for CDMA. Based on this technology, the company is currently working on modem AISC chip for IMT-2000, and in September 1997, became the third company in the world that has developed the IMT-2000 trial system, proving that IMT-2000 system can be developed with Korean technology.
Mitsubishi Electric that collaborated with SK Telecom in the development of the new chips and has advanced technologies in wireless communication says that it will continue to work with SK Telecom to produce more sophisticated IC chips and develop a "complete set of chips" that includes enhanced supplementary functions and terminal signal processing.
IMT-2000 is widely expected to be the next generation mobile communications system that allows sending and receiving any form of information anywhere on the planet using one terminal. SK Telecom says that it expects that the new technology will allow the terminals to be smaller and lighter and help the company to enter the IMT-2000 terminal market far more easily. The annual terminal sales is expected grow to 26 million units by 2002 and 77 million units by 2003.
The Central Research and Development Center of SK Telecom (President: Jung Uck Seo) said that it succeeded in developing the radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and the intermediate frequency integrated circuit (IFIC), both important components allowing IMT-2000 terminals to process high radio frequency, after two years of collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan.
The new technology will allow SK Telecom to manufacture terminals that deliver video contents at a maximum speed of 2Mbps in broadband CDMA mode and to offer smaller, lighter terminals from the roll-out stage of IMT-2000 services by reducing dramatically the size of the core components.
The new technology puts all the functions of low-noise amplifier, downward frequency modifier, power amplifier, upward frequency modifier and automatic transmission controller into four small chips designed to set off at the low voltage of 3.3 to reduce required power.
SK Telecom began to work on the broadband CDMA technology for IMT-2000 services since 1994 and succeeded in developing modem ASIC chip for CDMA. Based on this technology, the company is currently working on modem AISC chip for IMT-2000, and in September 1997, became the third company in the world that has developed the IMT-2000 trial system, proving that IMT-2000 system can be developed with Korean technology.
Mitsubishi Electric that collaborated with SK Telecom in the development of the new chips and has advanced technologies in wireless communication says that it will continue to work with SK Telecom to produce more sophisticated IC chips and develop a "complete set of chips" that includes enhanced supplementary functions and terminal signal processing.
IMT-2000 is widely expected to be the next generation mobile communications system that allows sending and receiving any form of information anywhere on the planet using one terminal. SK Telecom says that it expects that the new technology will allow the terminals to be smaller and lighter and help the company to enter the IMT-2000 terminal market far more easily. The annual terminal sales is expected grow to 26 million units by 2002 and 77 million units by 2003.