BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group and China’s Ministry of
Information Industry held a seminar last week at the Beijing Shangri-La Hotel to discuss Global System for Mobile
communication handset technology solutions. More than 100 people from China’s government, universities, research
institutes and telecommunications companies were expected to attend.
Members of Lucent’s Microelectronics
Group planned to address the GSM platform marketing strategy in China and GSM-based third-generation wireless
technologies. Lucent said the seminar also would cover current and future integrated circuit technologies, high-
performance digital signal processors, mixed-signal processors and radio-frequency technologies.
“We are
here to provide technology and system solutions so our customers can develop their own handsets,” said Glen
Riley, president of Lucent Technologies’ Microelectronics Group’s Asia/Pacific region.
