dmedia System Co. Ltd (dmedia) and NextWave Wireless Inc. have teamed up to begin development on an advanced mobile WiMAX device that will debut in 1H 2009. dmedia’s aggressive move to bring new consumer electronics products to market is an example of the WiMAX leadership that is being driven from Taiwan, and shows dmedia’s dedication to deliver innovative products that spur consumer demand for mobile WiMAX services and devices.

Leveraging NextWave’s Wave 2-ready “No Compromise” NW2000 WiMAX chipset, dmedia will integrate WiMAX into its WiMAX Mobile Internet Device, G400. By embedding WiMAX into the device, end-users gain greater service opportunities, including mobilization of the Internet to enhance connection, navigation and mobile multimedia services. Additionally, as NextWave’s NW2000 chipset is optimized to deliver outstanding performance, very low power and enhanced integration, dmedia’s device will offer robust feature-sets to enable bandwidth-intensive mobile multimedia applications, including NextWave’s MXtv™ mobile broadcast service, streaming video, video conferencing, and Voice-over-IP (VoIP).

The NextWave NW2000 family of advanced, second-generation mobile WiMAX chipsets is ideally suited for high-volume, small form-factor wireless broadband subscriber stations. The chipset includes the NW2100 family of 802.16e-based mobile subscriber baseband System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solutions, and the complementary NW2200 family of single-chip, highly integrated, multi-band Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers, which have dual independent receive chains optimized for mobile applications.

NextWave began to sample Evaluation/System Development Kits for the NW2000 family in Q2 2008; providing wireless device manufacturers, like dmedia, the opportunity to bring mobile WiMAX products to market faster, and with lower development costs.

For more information about the dmedia and NextWave Wireless relationship, please visit dmedia’s booth (S4-7) or NextWave Wireless’ booth (A2-1) at the 2008 WiMAX Expo Taipei, June 2-6, 2008, a co-located event with Computex Taipei. Additionally, information can be obtained by visiting dmedia online at: www.dmedia.cc, or NextWave Wireless at: www.nextwave.com.