Fujitsu Microelectronics Targets WiMAX Opportunity

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) is set to introduce a chipset targeting the WiMAX broadband wireless access market. The company said it is working with leading equipment and infrastructure vendors to design a single-chip solution for deployment in base stations and subscriber stations. FMA is targeting an early 2005 for the launch of the single-chip solution, which will integrate both PHY and MAC functionality.



WiMAX-compliant silicon is expected by the beginning of 2005. Its adoption in infrastructure and subscriber equipment is expected to accelerate in the second half of 2005 and throughout 2006. FMA said early implementations will begin in base station configurations designed for single standalone units, as well as for much more complex rack-mounted systems and blade servers that work alongside wireline network systems. Device technology also will be deployed in WiMAX-certified subscriber stations that are anticipated to cost much less than the custom stations currently used in the relatively small number of broadband wireless deployments in the U.S. http://www.fma.fujitsu.com/ASIC