Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics Enter cdma2000 Market, Leverage Joint Development with Nokia; Open CDMA Chipset Offers Unprecedented Choices for cdma2000 Handset Manufacturers; Wireless industry leaders join efforts to stimulate an open environment for CDMA handsets.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 May 2003-NOKIA: Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics Enter cdma2000 Market, Leverage Joint Development with Nokia; Open CDMA Chipset Offers Unprecedented Choices for cdma2000 Handset Manufacturers; Wireless industry leaders join efforts to stimulate an open environment for CDMA handsets(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05152003 Dallas and Geneva -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) (ST), Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) (TI), and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced that TI and ST will offer ICs, based on technology developed jointly with Nokia that together compose standard CDMA chipsets.

The chipset ICs will be marketed by ST and TI to handset manufacturers worldwide for cdma2000 1X and 1xEV-DV (1x Evolution for Data and Voice)...