Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Frontier Silicon
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 October 2005
Seoul office is
ready for T-DMB deployment
Frontier Silicon has opened its office in Seoul, South Korea, to support the launch of the world's first commercial T-DMB mobile television service
The company is already working with the leading cellphone manufacturers in the region and the new office will provide essential local applications engineering support and customer service as the country builds up to the launch of mobile TV. The new office in Korea will be headed up by KN Kim, formerly General Manager at Samsung, and managing director of BSI Group (the leading ST Microelectronics distributor).
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 October 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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With over 20 years experience in the semiconductors, electronics and communications industries, he has held a number of sales, marketing, business development and general manager roles.
Kim will manage an initial team of applications engineering, sales and support staff.
Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon, commented: 'KN Kim's extensive network of senior level contacts in the Asia-Pacific region plus his understanding of the multicultural business environment across Korea, China and Europe is going to be of major benefit to Frontier Silicon as we ramp up our support and promotion of mobile digital television both in Korea and the rest of Asia'.
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'This office is therefore going to be an important part of our commitment to the region, and contribute to the growth of a potentially fast-growing market for mobile digital television services'.
Kim added: 'Over 120 million handsets are manufactured a year in South Korea'.
'With mobile TV being the big killer application the mobile communications and broadcast industries have been waiting for, whatever happens here in South Korea will undoubtedly be a blueprint for many markets worldwide'.
'Frontier Silicon has invested heavily in mobile TV product development starting with our first semiconductor solutions for T-DMB over two years ago in conjunction with our partners in South Korea'.
'With our new operation here we are ideally placed to support some of the leading players in the mobile TV market at this exciting time'.
Frontier Silicon's mobile TV strategy is based on developing multiband/multistandard solutions in order to support the multiple transmission standards used in commercial launches of mobile TV broadcasts across Korea, USA, Japan and Europe.
Last month the company successfully demonstrated T-DMB compliant mobile TV reception using Frontier Silicon's Kino chipset, which is currently sampling to multiple customers and expected to go in to volume production by the year end; the company also showed its DVB-H mobile TV capability for the first time last month.
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