Agilent Technologies Ships 100 Millionth FBAR Filter for U.S. PCS Band

Agilent Technologies Ships 100 Millionth FBAR Filter for U.S. PCS Band Mobile Phones, Data Cards

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2005--

Industry's Smallest FBAR Filters Now Ship at More Than Six Million/Month
    Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that it has shipped its 100 millionth FBAR (film bulk acoustic resonator) filter since the release of the product in December 2001. Demand has been so strong that Agilent has increased its shipments to six million per month. FBAR filters are used in mobile phones, data cards and other wireless products operating in the U.S. PCS (personal communications service) frequency band.
    Agilent's miniature FBAR filters are used in a variety of devices, including duplexers, which play a critical role in CDMA (code division multiple access) handsets and data cards. Duplexers separate incoming from outgoing communications to allow for simultaneous, two-way voice or data transmission. Full-band transmit filters are often used in addition to duplexers to reduce noise and enhance receiver sensitivity.
    "Our FBAR filters and duplexers are in nine of the top 10 CDMA phone manufacturers' handsets for the U.S. PCS market," said Bryan Ingram, vice president and general manager for the Wireless Semiconductor Division in Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group. "We recently announced our 100th design win for these industry-leading miniature filters, which is a testament to their tremendous market acceptance."
    The current generation filter products shipping in volume are the Agilent ACPF-7002 FBAR full-band transmit filter, the ACMD-7401 FBAR duplexer, and the ACMD-7401 FBAR duplexer used inside the Agilent AFEM-7731 front-end module.
    The Agilent ACPF-7002 is the industry's smallest full-band transmit filter (1.0 mm high with a 1.6 mm x 2.0 mm footprint). It eliminates the need for a second filter, a radio-frequency switch and associated passive components. This reduces the printed circuit board area required for the transmit filter by up to 90 percent, while lowering manufacturing costs and eliminating the need for interface design and programming.
    The Agilent ACMD-7401 is the industry's smallest FBAR duplexer. Built with Agilent's innovative Microcap bonded-wafer, chip-scale packaging, it is less than one-tenth the volume of competing ceramic devices (1.4 mm high with a 5.0 mm x 5.0 mm footprint).
    The Agilent AFEM-7731 is a fully matched CDMA-1900 MHz front-end module, integrating Agilent's highly efficient ACPM-7833 E-pHEMT (enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor) power amplifier with a miniature ACMD-7401 FBAR duplexer and all matching circuitry into a compact 5 x 8 x 1.3 mm chip-on-board module. Compared to designs using separate power amplifiers and duplexers, the AFEM-7731 features higher effective power-added efficiency (PAE) for longer talk time, and high isolation and low loss in the receive band for high sensitivity.
    Further information about Agilent's FBAR products and technology is available at www.agilent.com/view/fbar.

    Agilent's Mobile Appliance Solutions

    Agilent is a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for today's highly integrated, feature-rich mobile handsets. In addition to FBAR filters and E-pHEMT power amplifiers that help shrink handset size and save battery life, Agilent provides infrared transceivers for transmitting data, surface-mount LEDs that provide backlighting styling options, proximity sensors that automate the speaker phone, and ambient light photo sensors that save battery life by controlling backlighting. No other component vendor offers all of these solutions for mobile appliances. More information about Agilent's family of mobile appliance semiconductor solutions is available at www.agilent.com/view/mobile.

    About Agilent Technologies

    Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT SOURCE: Agilent Technologies Inc.

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