SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. unveiled what it describes as the industry’s first single-chip processor for cell phones using EDGE technology.
The product, known as the Intel PX800EF processor, combines key components, which include the memory, the XScale and the micro signal architecture, according to David Rogers, marketing manager with Intel PCA components group. This makes it a system-on-a-chip solution, he said, adding that Intel is leveraging its acquisition of DSPC, a baseband company whose expertise helped boost Samsung TDMA handsets to a big market share in the analog days.
“A lot of our competitors need co-processors, but we do it on a single chip,” he said.
The company plans to take advantage of the EDGE protocol’s recent momentum in the market.
