Broadcom Chip Clears Way for 3G iPhone Broadcom的芯片清除方式為3 G iphone

Steve Jobs must have known this was in the works.史蒂夫喬布斯必須知道這是在該工程。

Asked again last month why he hadn’t built a 3G iPhone, Apple’s (AAPL) CEO replied that he was waiting for a chipset that would allow him to deliver 3G speeds with something close to the eight hour talk time the slower EDGE-based iPhone gets now.再問，為什麼在上個月，他還沒有建起了3 G的iphone ，蘋果的（ AAPL ）的首席執行官回答說，他是在等待一個芯片組，這將使他提供3 G的速度接近8個小時的會談，時間較慢的邊緣基於iphone得到現在。 “ Hopefully we’ll see that late next year,” he said. “我希望我們會看到明年下半年， ”他說。

He may not have to wait that long.他未必要等那麼久。 In what could be a preview of the next-generation iPhone, chipmaker Broadcom (BRCM)在什麼可以預覽下一代iphone ，晶片製造商Broadcom公司（ brcm ） announced宣布 yesterday that it had begun sending manufacturers samples of an integrated device it’s calling a “3G Phone On a Chip.” The chipset’s features read like an iPhone hold-out’s wishlist.昨天說，它已開始派遣製造商的樣本，一個綜合裝置，它的要求是“ 3G手機對芯片” ，芯片組的功能一樣，讀一iphone舉行指出的心願。 They include:它們包括：

• a 3G baseband transceiver supporting download speeds of up to 7.2 megabits per second 1 3 G基頻收發器，支持下載速度高達7.2兆位每秒
• Bluetooth 2.1藍牙2.1
• an FM radio receiver 1 FM廣播接收器
• an FM radio transmitter (for car stereo playback)一調頻發射器（汽車音響播放）
• multimedia support for a 5 megapixal camera多媒體支持一個5 megapixal相機
• 30 frames per second video with “TV out”以每秒30幀的視頻與“電視”
• support for EDGE, HSUPA, HSDPA, and WCDMA支持的優勢， HSUPA ， ， HSDPA ，這和WCDMA

It doesn’t do GPS, Wi-Fi or windows.它不這樣做的GPS ， Wi - Fi或窗口。

While Broadcom did not offer battery life estimates, it does describe the chip as “extremely low power.”而Broadcom公司並沒有提供電池壽命的估計，它描述芯片作為“極低的功率” 。

The那個 BCM21551 bcm21551 was delivered to manufacturers in small quantities yesterday will be available in bulk for $23 apiece.被送到製造商在少量昨天將可在大部份為23元，交。 This is one chip Jobs may be tempted to hoard, because if Apple doesn’t buy it, its competitors surely will.這是一個芯片的工作可能會受到誘惑，囤積，因為如果蘋果不買它，其競爭對手一定會。

Or not.或沒有。 In an oddly time piece, Blackfriar’s Carl Howe, who is usually pretty well plugged in to Apple, today published his five reasons why在一個奇怪的時間片， blackfriar的卡爾豪，誰是通常相當不錯，堵塞在蘋果公司，今天發表了他的五原因 Apple’s iPhone Doesn’t Need 3G蘋果的iphone並不需要第三代流動服務 . 。 Latency, he says, is more important than bandwidth.潛伏期，他說，更重要的，比的帶寬。 Besides, he adds, high bandwidth radio networks are more error prone.此外，他補充說，高帶寬的無線網絡更容易出現錯誤。 Hmmm. hmmm 。

For more on the Broadcom chipset, see Eric Bangeman’s如需了解更多關於Broadcom的芯片組，見李家祥班格曼的 piece作品 in Ars Technica .在亞美尼亞救濟協會technica 。