The WiMAX chipset market is advancing quickly. There are solid 2-chip designs consisting of a single-chip baseband IC and a single-chip RF IC that are bringing power consumption down. Beceem, GCT Semiconductor, and Sequans have single-chip designs that include both the baseband and RF. Most importantly, WiMAX chipset ASPs are dropping rapidly.
“Even as the [...]

Beceem, a leading supplier of high-performance Mobile WiMAX™ solutions, announced today that its BCS200 chipset was among the first group of products that have received the WiMAX Forum Certified™ seal of approval for 2.5 GHz equipment, putting the exclamation mark at the end of a long list of firsts for this chipset.
The BCS200 was [...]

Beceem’s WiMAX Chipset Enables Laptop From Acer to Showcase Leading Edge Mobile Computing and Entertainment Experience on Fitel’s New Mobile WiMAX Network
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Beceem, a leading supplier of high-performance Mobile WiMAX solutions, announced today that Fitel, a leading wireless service provider in Taiwan, and Acer, one of the world’s leading branded PC vendors, are providing [...]

Successful Mobile WiMAX System Test Demonstration Complies with Sprint Network Requirements
Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), a leading provider of terminal chipsets for Mobile WiMAX, today announced the completion of the first major milestone of Mobile WiMAX equipment initial interoperability testing performed between Beceem’s chipset and Sprint’s WiMAX infrastructure as part of the Sprint Mobile WiMAX device [...]