Samsung Electronics
to Export WCDMA System
Announces the closing of a supply contract with Vibotel

Samsung Electronics has become Korea's first corporation to export system hardware for wideband CDMA, a third-generation mobile communications technology platform. On July 11, company officials announced the closing of a supply contract with Taiwanese 3G mobile communications operator, Vibotel.
Global sales of WCDMA systems have been dominated by European manufacturers until now but Samsung has succeeded in entering the overseas market.
Samsung Electronics will supply WCDMA systems to Vibotel, which is scheduled to launch commercial service at the end of this year. Samsung's WCDMA system for Vibotel applies HSDPA, allowing easy migration when Vibotel starts HSDPA service.
A Samsung Electronics official says, "Our successful debut in the WCDMA system market serves as an opportunity for us to advance into other overseas markets and achieve a balanced development of the conventional and 3G CDMA businesses."Early this year, Vibotel decided to launch WCDMA service in the 2.1GHz band and has been preparing for launch ever since.
First Live T-DMB/L-Band GSM Mobile Phone
Samsung Electronics and Germany's T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, demonstrate Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) service on the first T-DMB/L-Band GSM phone during the media convention medienforum NRW in Germany.
medienforum.nrw is one of the most influential conventions in Europe, organized by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM).
The two companies have been collaborating together to develop and commercialize the technology since they built their partnership at CeBIT 2005 in Hanover, Germany (March 10-16).
During CeBIT, Samsung and T-Systems conducted high profile demonstrations featuring Samsung Electronics' terrestrial prototype terminals and they now unveil the world? first and only T-DMB/L-Band GSM mobile phone.
Samsung Electronics and T-Systems have been working together to technically ensure mobile TV services during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The final decision will depend on the license allocation but the well proved DAB/DMB technology which is a public standard of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is more and more taken into consideration. DMB-services can coexist within one DAB-multiplex with "traditionally" encoded DAB audio services and L-Band-frequencies are available to start a nationwide service in 2006.
"Samsung supports all standards for digital mobile TV introducing various designs such as portrait & landscape view LCD with convincing portability and compactness,?said Park Ju-ha, vice president of Samsung Telecommunication Europe." The cooperation with T-Systems International brings together two experts beneficially introducing their experiences and know-how of Digital TV on Mobile to Europe." "T-Systems is pleased to work with Samsung to demonstrate T-DMB service on the first T-DMB/L-Band GSM phone,"said Helmut Egenbauer, CEO Media&Broadcast at T-Systems.
"T-Systems is convinced, that the launch of an L-Band DMB service bouquet in Germany 2006 would speed up the DAB introduction in Germany significantly. The receivers will support VHF-DAB reception and will open the way for interactive radio."Samsung Display Driver IC with Built-in MDDI for 3G Mobile Handsets
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that the company has developed an optimized QVGA display driver IC (DDI) chip that incorporates QUALCOMM's Mobile Display Digital Interface (MDDI). By including this serial interface technology, Samsung? new S6D0142 DDI chip reduces the number of wires that run across the hinge of wireless 3G clamshell handset designs to interconnect QUALCOMM Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) chipsets with the LCD display. Mobile handsets with Samsung's new S6D0142 DDI chip will also be more reliable due to a simplified design.
The MDDI standard, a high-speed serial interconnection technology developed by QUALCOMM, increases reliability and reduces power consumption in clamshell and slide mobile phones by greatly decreasing the number of wires.
Low Voltage Differential Interface (LVDI), which distinguishes signals by the difference of voltage of the two wires, lowers Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) as well as reducing the power consumption.
In addition to the built-in MDDI display interface, Samsung's latest display driver IC, the S6D0142, incorporates the following features in a single chip: a timing controller, a source driver, a gate driver, a power supply IC, and 1.3Mb of SRAM. nw

Samsung Electronics has inked a deal to export WCDMA system hardware to Taiwan's Vibotel.