Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 percent of workers in the company’s Telecommunications Systems division are in research and development.
Samsung has two research and development labs in South Korea, one in San Jose, Calif., and another in Moscow.
The company has developed a distributed control system, called a personal computer exchange, that can process 500,000 signals and accommodate at least 350,000 subscribers. Each process in the system is duplicated. The Samsung system will include a home location register that can handle a million subscribers, as well as PCS terminals.
Samsung produces its own CDMA chip for base station controllers and base station transceiver systems. It developed small-size transceiver systems and in-house linear power amplifier production. The RF board and circuit for its CDMA terminal SCH-100 was developed in house, the company said.
