Motorola says it is investing in a WiMAX chipset design that will give it an end-to-end solution the technology, where it also has infrastructure and handset plans. The chip will focus on the mobile version of WiMAX, using the IEEE 802.16e specification. The chips are expected to show up in devices in 2008, in time for WiMAX deployments by Sprint and other carriers. Sprint decided to choose WiMax as their 4G solution.

Qualcomm, meanwhile, has developed its CSC1100 chip, which combines a baseband modem, RF transceiver, power management and memory into a single chop. Qualcomm says the cdma2000 chip will substantially reduce the cost of handsets.

Never heard of this company until today when I saw how much Samsung is strong armed to pay them for royalty ($134 million). They already won or collected royal from sony-ericsson, nokia, sharp, etc. The related litigation involved 2G TDMA technology.

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