ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems said it has unveiled six chips with a view to improving the capacity, size, total system costs and time to market for next-generation wireless equipment.
The products include APP550, APP530, TAAD Lite, TAAD UltraLite, SAR-1K and SAR-500, and they target such functions as voice, data and video signals.
“These six innovative chips catalyze the extremely cost-conscious telecom equipment market with new revenue-generating opportunities,” said the company. “These chips can enable consumers to rapidly receive higher bandwidth, higher quality and faster wireless phones . and other communications services at much lower costs.”
Agere said two of the chips, the APP550 and APP530, perform traffic management, segmentation and reassembly, ATM, voice, data packet processing functions.
They allows customers to “add multi-service functions to their existing functions, thereby accelerating their product deliveries and preserving their software investments,” said Jag Bolario, senior analyst with The Linley Group, a research company. The products are priced at $575 and $295 in quantities of 10,000.
The TAAD Lite and TAAD UltraLite integrate 12 chips each into one for base stations and digital subscriber line access multiplexer.
“The chips are less than 1 square inch in size and house approximately 140 million transistors, squeezing huge amounts of performance and transistors by industry standards into a small space,” said Agere.
The SAR-1K and SAR-500 also target base stations, as well as perform SAR functions.
“Combined, the TSSD Lite and new SAR 1K chips enable 1,000 simultaneous user channels of voice, data or video signals-twice the bandwidth of the nearest competing chip,” said the company.
