CEVA (News - Alert) announced Monday that its CEVA-TeakLite DSP Core is at the heart of VIA Telecom's CDMA baseband processor chosen by Dopod, in collaboration with China Unicom (News - Alert), to power a new range of low-cost handsets for the Chinese market.

 

A large number of customers such as Haier, Cal-Comp, Inventec and other Tier-1 handset manufacturers have deployed VIA's CDMA Baseband Processor (News - Alert) ("CBP") solution for ultra low and low-cost handset solutions targeting the "Emerging Markets". VIA Telecom is already working closely with key CDMA2000 operators in these regions, including Reliance Communications (News - Alert) (India), China Unicom (China) and APBW (Taiwan). VIA Telecom supplies its CDMA chipsets to the two largest CDMA operators in India; Reliance Communications and Tata Indicom

 

President & Principal Analyst, Forward Concepts, Will Strauss observed that

VIA (News - Alert) Telecom is emerging as a compelling cost-effective solution in the CDMA baseband processor arena. He explained in a statement that the low-cost CDMA handset market is booming in Asia, and with customers including Dopod and Cal-Comp shipping its CEVA-powered CDMA2000 chipsets to these markets, VIA Telecom is well positioned to grow its market share and customer base.

 

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) indicates that from Q3 2006 to Q3 2007,

APAC witnessed a 32 percent increase of its CDMA market share bringing the region

to 49 percent of CDMA subscribers worldwide. Due to an increase in demand for low-cost handsets, India's CDMA2000 subscriber base is rapidly growing and surpassed 52.5 million fixed and mobile device users in October 2007.

 

Ker Zhang, CEOof VIA Telecom noted that the CEVA-TeakLite DSP core combined with the excellent engineering support provided by CEVA have been instrumental in the success of their range of advanced CDMA and CDMA2000 baseband processors.

 

Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA added that VIA's success is a testament to the quality and low-power capabilities of their CEVA-TeakLite DSP, and reaffirms CEVA's status as the handset industry's leading licensor of DSP cores worldwide.