Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Altair Semiconductor and SkyCross Announce LTE Cooperation


SkyCross iMAT® MIMO Antennas Power Altair FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE
HOD HASHARON, Israel & VIERA, Fla. -- Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world’s most advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, and SkyCross, a global antenna designer and manufacturer, today announced cooperation on high-performance, LTE product solutions. As part of the cooperation, Altair has integrated the SkyCross iMAT® MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) antenna in Altair’s recently announced FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE (User Equipment). The card has undergone extensive interoperability testing (IOT) and is currently being used in various field activities throughout the world.
The two companies initially began their cooperation with a focus on mobile WiMAX technology utilizing Altair’s FourGee™-2150/6150 chipset and have been closely working on field testing and optimizations for more than a year.
“The combination of Altair’s comprehensive and power-efficient LTE USB ExpressCard and high-performance iMAT antennas from SkyCross provides the marketplace with one of the first small form factor LTE UEs,” said Oded Melamed, Co-Founder and CEO of Altair Semiconductor. “We look forward to further expanding our relationship with SkyCross as new 4G reference designs that support newly available RF bands are introduced to the marketplace.”

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