Sequans Partners with Fujitsu Semiconductor

To offer its customers with high-performance LTE products, Sequans Communications has inked a technology and marketing agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited.

This new deal will join Fujitsu Semiconductor’s multimode 2G/3G/LTE RF solution with Sequans’ just-announced, next generation LTE baseband solutions. Also, the Fujitsu Semiconductor RF transceiver supports all major global bands and modes, including LTE bands, and will be pre-integrated and fully validated with Sequans’ LTE chips by Sequans.

“Our collaboration with Fujitsu Semiconductor ensures that our customers can adopt our LTE baseband solution to build devices for virtually any LTE spectrum band around the world,” said Georges Karam, Sequans’ CEO.  “Furthermore, our mutual customers will benefit from this global multi-mode, multi-band solution in terms of cost efficiency and shorter time to market due to the pre-integration and validation work Sequans has completed on the combined solution.”

The combined solution from Sequans/Fujitsu Semiconductor includes Fujitsu Semiconductor’s MB86L12A 2G/3G/LTE RF CMOS transceiver that supports all 3GPP LTE-FDD and LTE-TDD bands and Sequans’ SQN3110 and SQN3120 baseband chips. 

In case of SQN3110, it is a 40 nm LTE baseband chip that is 3GPP R9 compliant and supports category 4 throughput to offer extremely low power consumption in a very small footprint for handsets and the smallest of mobile devices. The SQN3120 adds an integrated applications processor for portable hotspots, hostless USB modems, and CPE devices.

Vivek Bhan, executive VP, Fujitsu Semiconductor Wireless Products, Inc said the Fujitsu Semiconductor MB86L12A features industry-leading RF LSI, and when coupled with the new LTE baseband from Sequans, will provide device manufacturers with a competitive LTE platform.

“Fujitsu Semiconductor is a leader in multi-mode, multi-band RF transceivers that reduce total radio BOM costs and customer’s time to market for bringing versatile, worldwide roaming device solutions,” Vivek Bhan added.

In other news, Sequans Communications and Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently announced a partnership for a large scale trial of Time Division – Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) in Shenzhen.