SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty-bearing license agreement with Hitachi Ltd. of Japan, which grants Hitachi a license to manufacture and sell subscriber products for wireless applications based on the Code Division Multiple Access Interim Standard-95 technology standard.
“Hitachi is ready to apply its extensive research on CDMA to the production of high-quality handsets,” said Kyohei Kasaba, director and group executive of Hitachi’s Consumer Products and Information Media Systems Group. “As Qualcomm and Hitachi have reached this CDMA license agreement, we expect to start production and marketing for the Japanese market by the end of 1998 and later for overseas markets.”
Hitachi will use CDMA technology in cellular, personal communications services and wireless local loop applications.
Hitachi Ltd., based in Tokyo, manufactures and markets products including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment.
