Samsung Using Broadcom Chips for EDGE Phones

Broadcom has announced that Samsung is to use its single-chip cellular platform for selected future EDGE mobile phones. Based on the 65 nanometer (nm) BCM21331 single-chip EDGE processor with integrated cellular radio, the Broadcom advanced EDGE platform features touch-based graphical user interfaces with tactile feedback, motion sensors, advanced multimedia and extended Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity.

"Broadcom is proud to extend our 3G and connectivity relationship with Samsung to include our EDGE products and we look forward to helping bring advanced new handsets to the market," said Scott Bibaud, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Broadcom's Mobile Platforms Group. "Samsung's rigorous development and quality assurance process has resulted in a solid platform ensuring the advanced features, performance, size, power and cost efficiencies required for its future mobile phones."

According to iSuppli market research, the EDGE segment of the mobile phone market is projected to grow from 308 million units in 2008 to over 483 million units in 2012, making EDGE the largest volume sector.

The Broadcom BCM21331 EDGE solution includes an integrated quad-band EDGE radio frequency (RF) transceiver, all of the analog and digital baseband functions, and provides built-in support for high quality image capture, USB 2.0 OTG (on-the-go), high-speed secure digital I/O (SDIO) interfaces and H.264 video recording and playback.

Posted to the site on 10th February 2009