Altair Semiconductor LTE Baseband Processor Targeted at Mobile Phones, Handheld Consumer Electronics Devices

(Product News, 25 Jun 2009)

Fabless chip company Altair Semiconductor has announced the details of its LTE baseband processor, the FourGee-3100, which will be available in Q409. Bundled with a complete LTE L1 and protocol stack, the FourGee-3100 is a fully optimized LTE CAT-3 baseband processor that will operate with devices from mobile handsets, data cards and USB dongles to various handheld consumer electronics devices.

Altair's LTE chipsets are architected using the company's proprietary and market-proven O2P software-defined 4G processor, which offers extremely high performance at unmatched power consumption levels. The FourGee-3100 will join Altair's existing products, the FourGee-2150 for mobile WiMAX, and the FourGee-4150, for XGP.