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Quanta Computer (News - Alert), Inc., an ODM for Notebooks and PC peripherals, has selected Beceem's BCS200 terminal chipset to develop products for the mobile computing market. Both companies are collaborating on WiMAX products for many Mobile WiMAX (News - Alert) networks being deployed by operators that are working with Beceem's infrastructure OEM partners.

 

“Beceem is one of the Mobile WiMAX chipset leaders,” said Frank Jiang, president at Quanta Microsystems, Inc. (QMI) in a statement. QMI is a subsidiary of Quanta Computer focusing on the development of wireless communications devices.

 

Jiang explained that Beceem’s products excel at field-proven performance and provide the level of maturity and functionality that QMI and its customers expect when entering a new market like Mobile WiMAX.  Working with Beceem also ensures that their products can be launched in most WiMAX networks around the world, since Beceem is collaborating with all major WiMAX infrastructure OEMs to assure the interoperability of their chipset.

 

According to Dave Carroll, VP of Sales for Beceem, Quanta is one of the leading ODMs in Taiwan when it comes to providing products for the mobile computing market. Carroll said that their selection of Beceem’s high-performance Mobile WiMAX chipset will allow Quanta to create a variety of modem products that will address the huge installed base of mobile computing products targeted by the leading operators that are launching Mobile WiMAX services today.

 

Quanta reports that they have already developed a variety of Mobile WiMAX products, such as PC cards, Express Cards and USB Dongles, using Beceem's chipset. While the prototypes are being field tested by mobile operators today, commercial shipments are expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2007.

 

 

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