Samsung Electronics Inc. has chosen Infineon Technologies AG's HSDPA Platform XMM6080 for its new family of HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) mobile handsets. The platform includes the HSDPA/EDGE baseband, power management, single chip 3.5G RF transceiver and is complemented by Infineon's protocol stack for HEDGE phones.
The solution enables customers to significantly reduce component count, footprint, complexity and cost of designs. The launch also underlines the global maturity of Infineon's in-house protocol stack. The XMM 6080 platform will enable Samsung to introduce a wide range of new HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) phones reusing the proven Infineon core architecture.