GCT Semiconductor Announces Industry's First Mobile WiMAX IEEE 802.16e Wave 2 Compliant...

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GCT Semiconductor Announces Industry's First Mobile WiMAX IEEE 802.16e Wave 2 Compliant 3.5 GHz Monolithic Single-Chip Solution

New Addition to GCT's Market-Proven 2.3 GHz / 2.5 GHz WiMAX
Single-Chip Product Portfolio Demonstrates GCT's Leadership in Growing
Worldwide WiMAX Market
TAIPEI, Taiwan--(Business Wire)--
GCT Semiconductor, a leading supplier of mobile WiMAX solutions to
the global market, today announced sampling of the industry's first
mobile WiMAX 3.5 GHz Wave 2 single-chip, GDM7213, which includes RF,
MAC and PHY, all into one monolithic integrated circuit. GCT continues
to build on its leadership position in WiMAX connectivity with this
new addition to its state-of-the-art WiMAX product portfolio. Visit
GCT this week at WiMAX Expo Taipei, held at the Taipei World Trade
Center in Hall 2, Booth C2-3, June 2-6, 2008.

"GCT's monolithic single-chip WiMAX solutions enable low-power
consumption, small form-factor design and low bill of materials cost,
all key factors for driving broader WiMAX deployment," commented Dr.
Kyeongho Lee, President and CEO of GCT Semiconductor. "Compliant with
WiMAX Forum(TM) standards, this new solution is ideally suited as the
core of WiMAX applications such as USB dongles, data cards (incl. PCI
Express), customer premises equipment (CPE) and small modules."

Based on GCT's industry-proven CMOS RF technologies, GDM7213
implements MIMO, and all PHY and MAC features required for WiMAX Forum
Wave 2 Certification. This compact solution offers a highly
integrated, low-power transceiver which minimizes the number of
external RF front-end components. It also includes a mobile WiMAX
baseband with high performance dual-processors, and an impressive
array of peripherals for connectivity.

GDM7213 complies with IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX and WiMAX Forum
Wave 2 certification requirements, supports seamless handover across
different cell sectors and operates over the full 3.4 to 3.7 GHz
range. GDM7213 is currently sampling to beta customers. Production is
planned for the third quarter of 2008.

GCT's advanced WiMAX product portfolio also includes GDM7205, the
world's first mobile WiMAX IEEE 802.16e Wave 2-compliant monolithic
single-chip; and GDM7215, which offers the functionality of GDM7205
plus WiFi 802.11b/g, all in one monolithic integrated circuit.
GDM7205, GDM7213 and GDM7215 are pin-compatible, allowing customers to
reuse system design and printed circuit board layout.

About GCT Semiconductor, Inc.

GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless semiconductor company that
designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions
for the wireless communications industry. With its proven CMOS radio
frequency (RF) and SOC expertise, GCT provides state-of-the-art CMOS
RF transceivers, CMOS single-chip Satellite-DMB digital receivers and
Mobile WiMAX solutions serving 3G and 4G mobile handset manufacturers
by reducing BOM cost, lowering power consumption and minimizing size.
For more information, please visit www.gctsemi.com.

GCT Semiconductor, Inc.
Alex Sum, +1-408-434-8022
Mobile: +1-408-835-9686
VP Marketing/Business Development
alexsum@gctsemi.com
Simon Lee, +1-408-434-8039
Product Marketing Director
sylee@gctsemi.com
John Schlaefer, +1-408-434-8021
Chief Operating Officer
jschlaefer@gctsemi.com