ANADIGICS Lights Up Samsung's Thin Neon 3G Handset

(Business News & Technology News, 23 May 2007)

ANADIGICS Inc. is shipping production volumes of 3G EVDO power amplifiers (PAs) to Samsung Electronics for its SCH-u540 mid-range multimedia phone. The clamshell SCH-u540 is available through Verizon Wireless, offering VCAST Services, including VCAST Video, VCAST Music and VZ Navigator.

"We are very pleased with our continuing relationship with Samsung Electronics and that we are designed into their SCH-u540 3G handset,¡± said Dr. Bami Bastani, President and CEO, ANADIGICS. "ANADIGICS' leading line of wireless CDMA EVDO HELP products and our strategic relationships with tier-one manufacturers like Samsung position us to be a dominant player in the advanced multimedia 3G handset market."

Samsung Electronics' SCH-u540 uses both the AWT6307 and AWT6308 EVDO HELP2 PAs for US cellular band and US PCS band operation, respectively. ANADIGICS' HELP2 PAs provide exceptional efficiency and low quiescent current, thereby reducing power consumption and increasing talk-time. The highly integrated 3x3mm HELP2 PAs reduce PCB space requirements by up to 50 percent while maintaining pin-to-pin compatibility with existing 4x4mm amplifiers. These power amplifier modules are manufactured using a material set consistent with the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS).

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