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While taking longer to roll-out than some may have anticipated, Korean WiMAX Semi-conductor company GCT sees a bright future for WiMAX with activity increasing and devices beginning to ramp. Interview with Alex Sum, VP of Marketing & Business Development, GCT Semiconductor.

GCT's Highly Integrated Single-Chip, Demonstrated at CTIA in Las Vegas, April 1-3, Provides a Total Solution for Wireless Terminal Applications Requiring Dual Connectivity of Mobile WiMAX and WiFi

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GCT Semiconductor, a leading supplier of Mobile WiMAX solutions to the global market, today announced the world's first highly integrated single-chip solution, GDM7215, supporting mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e WAVE 2) and WiFi (802.11b/g). GDM7215 implements mobile WiMAX RF/MAC/PHY and WiFi RF/MAC/PHY on a monolithic die. This solution is being demonstrated on an Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) with WiMAX and WiFi connectivity during the CTIA wireless event at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in GCT's meeting room MR-789 in Hall C5. Samples are now being provided to alpha customers and production will begin in the third quarter of this year.

(Electronic Engineering Times Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) As the sun sets on 2007, qualified readers of EE Times and eeProductCenter (www.eeproductcenter.com) once again have selected the best of the best-the top products in each of seven categories in our quarterly Ultimate Products survey. As always, the categories are analog ICs; RF and microwave; logic and programmable logic; test and measurement; processors and memory; power; and interconnects, packaging and electromechanical. The results highlighted here are for products introduced during the third quarter. Read on to find out what products are rising to the fore of today's electronic designs.

GCT Semiconductor announced it validated its current WiMAX chipsets product portfolio on Windows Vista. Windows Vista WHQL signed drivers are ready for all current GCT WiMAX chipsets. In addition, all future GCT WiMAX chipsets will ship ready for Windows Vista.

GCT Semiconductor, Inc. launched a highly integrated RF transceiver for CDMA2000 applications. The new GRF6401 includes a fully integrated receiver and transmitter for 800 MHz cellular band operation. It also includes programmable output power circuitry and a sigma-delta fractional-N frequency synthesizer with VCO and loop filters. GCT's GRF6401 is specifically designed to interface with VIA Telecom's cdma2000 CBP baseband family of products.

The GDM7205 is compliant with WiMAX Forum standards and is designed to support portable, nomadic and fixed applications. Based on GCT's CMOS RF technologies, GDM7205 implements MIMO, and all PHY and MAC features required for WiMAX Forum Wave 2 Certification.

4Motion(TM) Achieves Successful Interoperability in Preparation of Wave 1 & 2 802.16e-2005 Certification

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR - News), the world's leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, announced the expansion of its OPEN WiMAX ecosystem through successful initial interoperability testing with an increasing number of 3rd party mobile devices. The company's 4Motion solution has achieved successful initial interoperability with numerous devices, using embedded chipsets from top vendors such as Beceem Communications, GCT Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Runcom Technologies and Sequans Communications, all in preparation of Wave 1 and 2 802.16e-2005 certification.

MX Selected to Test a Broad Range of Advanced Devices for Wireless Communications

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LTX Corporation (Nasdaq: LTXX - News), a leading provider of semiconductor test solutions, today announced the purchase of its X-Series Fusion MX test system by GCT Semiconductor, a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions for wireless communications.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - GCT Semiconductor Inc., a supplier of integrated circuits for the wireless communications industry, announced the closing of a $5 million Series E round of financing.

Wireless communications chipmaker GCT Semiconductor Inc. said Monday it closed a $5 million round of financing.

Wireless player GCT Semiconductor Inc. has garnered $5 million in a Series E round of financing by two U.S. subsidiaries of Japanese companies: DoCoMo Capital Inc. and JAIC America Inc.

GCT Semiconductor has licensed ARM's ARM926EJ-S processor for its next-generation reference designs focused on digital mobile TV and emerging 4G wireless technologies.

With the Smallest Form Factor and Lowest Power Consumption on the Market Today, GCT's Single-Chip Represents the Optimal Solution for Handheld, Mobile T-DMB Applications.

With the Smallest Form Factor and Lowest Power Consumption on the Market Today, GCT's Single-Chip Represents the Optimal Solution for Handheld, Mobile T-DMB Applications.

Latest Industry Innovation in Production with a Top Korean Handset Manufacturer