SAN DIEGO (WiMAX Day). NextWave Broadband Inc, a subsidiary of NextWave Wireless Inc, has begun shipping samples of its NW1000 Series WiMAX chipset, comprised of the NW1100 baseband system-on-a-chip (SOC), matched NW1200 multi-band RFIC, and associated system software, to consumer electronics and mobile device manufacturers.

NextWave’s NW1000 Series is designed to provide wireless device manufacturers with an advanced platform to develop next-generation WiMAX mobile terminal products. The chipset incorporates numerous NextWave innovations to improve performance, reduce power consumption, lower manufacturing costs, enable advanced mobile-multimedia applications, and allow seamless operation and roaming across worldwide WiMAX frequencies and profiles.

All of the company’s  innovative chipset and reference designs are a key element in the NextWave strategy to provide advanced, end-to-end system solutions optimized for mobile-multimedia applications such as mobile TV, streaming audio and video, and video surveillance, to mobile terminal OEMs and ODMs, including the international device vendors the company is currently working with.