LONDON — Qualcomm and Broadcom are planning to jointly develop and promote Bluetooth capabilities for CDMA mobile phones. The initial aim of the partnership is to combine Qualcomm's baseband modem with RF technology from Broadcom.
Financial details of the "strategic partnership" were not disclosed.
Qualcomm is already shipping in volume integrated Bluetooth baseband technology on many of its 3G CDMA chip sets. The companies said combining these with Broadcom's Bluetooth RF technology, such as the BCM 20022 single chip transceiver that is already shipping and follow on devices, "provides the best available system solution for Bluetooth in mobile devices."
Sanjay Jha, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, said, "By working closely with Broadcom, we hope to expand the use of Bluetooth technologies on 3G wireless networks throughout the world."
Alan "Lanny" Ross, president and chief executive officer of Broadcom, added: "We anticipate that our collaboration with Qualcomm will raise the bar of Bluetooth performance and ease of use in the mobile phone arena and accelerate the integration of Bluetooth into PCs and PDAs as well."
