TD-SCDMA Update
January 18, 2008
- Hong Kong-based CASH (Celestial Asia Securities Holdings) announced on January 16 that it will terminate the joint venture that the company formed with China's Chongqing CYIT (Chongyou Information Technology) on July 2007, Sina Tech News reported. According to China Business News, the disputes over investment issues resulted in the dissolution of the joint venture. According to the original agreement, CASH was supposed to invest at least 300 million RMB (US$41.4 million; US$1= 7.3 RMB) in the venture by December 31, 2007 and the company failed to do so.
- According to a press release by picoChip on January 18, the company announced that it has developed a TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design, codenamed PC8808, in picoChip's Beijing R&D center. Claimed to the first of its kind, picoChip's new single-chip platform not only supports HSDPA but also can incorporate Node B and protocol stack, as well as integrate back into core networks based on various architectures, including SIP Session Initiation Protocol), UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or Iu. Aside from PC8808, which mainly supports the TD-SCDMA standard, picoChip has a whole series of solutions supporting other major 3G telecommunication standards, including WCDMA and CDMA2000, as well as WiMAX.