Cell 'eco center'

Freescale says it will cram the full inner workings of a next-generation
mobile phone into a postage stamp-sized product by 2007.

Our approach is what we call a 'replaceable chip package'. We have been
investing in this for the last three years. This has the power of
miniaturization, lower cost and, of course, lower power consumption, smaller
size and also offers the flexibility. If it makes sense to put a lot in one
single chip, we will do so, but this one allows you to combine a single chip
with memory, with other complementary communication capability that is not in a
state where you can already integrate it. We are in the state of making this
available, in doing first calls towards the end of this year into early next
year, and we will start production in 2007. All we have to overcome are
manufacturing issues, testability issues. And anyway there are also the other
usual technological challenges.

What can Ultra Wideband capability do to the home entertainment industry? We
acquired Ultra Wideband in November 2003. People do not want cables. People want
the flexibility to decide where to put the television, the video station.
Secondly, for seamless mobility to become a reality, you have to have access to
any data, any where at any time. You will only have one devise wherever you go-your
mobile handset. This becomes the center of the ecosystem. For us, it was
important to have ultra wideband for high data rate communication capability,
which supports lowest power at highest data rate. Today, we are the first to
come out with a FCC certified product in the market at 110Mbit/sec. Our power
consumption is 20x lower to Bluetooth and 200x lower power to wireless LAN. At a
data rate that is already as high as 802.11n will ever be: we are also working
at the next generation higher data rate capability, which we are planning to
showcase in 2006.

It's a fairly complex ecosystem where cell phones will be connecting to
other devices to transfer data or images. What technologies will enable this?

Downloading videos on demand, even real-time broadcast, are killer
applications, which we are convinced will come. The mobile phone being at the
center of the ecosystem, we can talk about low-cost 2G vs 3G vs other
capability, digital TV, Ultra Wideband for high data downloads of videos or MP3
and something like low power, lower data rate ZigBee to make it the remote
control of whatever you do. Your whole home is going to be connected to ZigBee-heating
system, security system among others. If the handset is the center of the
ecosystem, you need to integrate it all. How can you do that? The 'replaceable
chip package' is the answer.