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News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2005
Fabless award caps outstanding year
After recognition from the financial industry and London stock market, CSR has been honoured by members of the Fabless Semiconductor Association.
After recognition from the financial industry and London stock market, CSR has been honoured by members of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) At an awards dinner held at the Santa Clara Convention Centre, California, on Thursday 8th December, Paul Goodridge, Finance Director for CSR accepted the award for "Outstanding financial performance by a public fabless company"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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CSR has experienced a year of rapid growth and expansion.
The company announced record results for both revenue and operating profit for the third quarter ended 30th September 2005, and for the period 1st January 2005 to 30th September 2005, CSR achieved revenue of $323.6 million compared with $173.4 million for the same period in 2004.
The company also increased the number of employees globally from 316 at 31st December 2004 to 650 by 30th September 2005 and completed two acquisitions.
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CSR's success has been achieved at the same time as continued growth in the overall market for Bluetooth which has increased by over 90% compared with 2004.
CSR is the acknowledged leader within the Bluetooth market, through its development of a portfolio of single chip solutions for wireless voice and data communication.
This covers basic Bluetooth file exchange to complex stereo music and call management capability for the new wireless stereo headset market targeted for use with mobile phones and portable media players.
"CSR has achieved significant growth over the past eight quarters to qualify for the outstanding financial performance by a public fabless company award".
"We congratulate CSR on attaining this financial benchmark", said Jodi Shelton, cofounder and Executive Director of FSA.
"CSR demonstrates its leadership serving on FSA's European Leadership Council, supporting the Association's regional and global initiatives".
During 2005, the company opened design centres in Lund, Sweden and Sophia Antipolis, France and acquired both Clarity Technologies and the software business of UbiNetics Holdings in order to further extend CSR's wireless technology offering.
This growth was acknowledged by the outstanding financial performance award which recognised the steep increase in CSR's revenue and net income over eight consecutive quarters, ending in June 2005.
On accepting the award, Goodridge commented: "2005 has been an outstanding year for us".
"Our core Bluetooth market has grown and developed at a rapid rate and we have developed our offering to include other wireless standards which offer even more potential for growth in 2006 and beyond".
He continued: "This recognition from our peers of the fabless semiconductor community is extremely important to us".
"BlueCore has set the benchmark for Bluetooth connectivity and we hope to offer the same levels of technical innovation and foresight to the other areas of our product offering".
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