7 Dec, 2007
NASDAQ-listed handset solutions vendor Spreadtrum Communications expects that the handset market in China will remain strong in 2008 despite a temporary easing in demand seen in the fourth quarter of this year, company vice president Renyong Fan said recently in Taipei.
Continuing economic growth in China, the upcoming commercialization of the TD-SCDMA networks and the planned launch of EDGE and TD-SCDMA services by China Mobile will help drive up demand for handsets in China in the coming year, Fan asserted.
At Spreadtrum, the company has already developed a complete lineup of GSM, EDGE and TD-SCDMA baseband solutions, with some of those solutions already entering design-in and design-win processes with downstream partners, said Fan, noting that a number of devices using Spreadtrum's solutions are to enter mass-production in the first half of 2008.
In other news, the production of Spreadtrum's next-generation baseband handset solutions will migrate to a 65nm process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in 2008, Fan indicated.
