Korea Markets Own CDMA Chip
Korea looks to get out the long shadow of Qualcomm, a U.S.-based mobile giant that retains source technologies of code division multiple access (CDMA), by developing its own modem chips. This is bad news for Qualcomm (QCOM)as they might lose a good number of chip sales.
Eonex, a venture start-up, Monday said its modem chips for CDMA2000 1X were adopted by a local handset maker, which the company asked not to specify. “This marks a turning point to challenge the 15-year dominance of Qualcomm in the CDMA modem chip market. Plus, Korea will be able to save a big chunk of money required to snap up CDMA modem chips,” he added. CDMA is one of two mainstream techniques for mobile telephony services together with global standard for mobile communications (GSM).
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