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News Release from: MIPS Technologies | Subject: Processor and analogue IP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 March 2008
Processor and analogue IP combine in
baseband
First mobile WiMAX baseband processor optimised for handheld devices combines ultra-low power consumption, low cost and the smallest footprint.
Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip company developing the world's most advanced mobile WiMAX semiconductors for handheld devices, has integrated MIPS processor and analogue IP in its new ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor The ALT2150 is the first baseband processor optimised for handheld devices, combining ultra-low power consumption, low cost and the smallest footprint
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"After exhaustively benchmarking several alternatives, we chose the industry standard MIPS32 architecture and Chipidea analogue circuitry to help us achieve the best possible combination of power efficiency and performance for the ALT2150, the world's smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor", says Eran Eshed, Altair's cofounder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.
"The combination of our proprietary O2P PHY processor, together with industry-leading MIPS Technologies IP cores, enables us to offer a highly flexible and differentiated solution".
"The ALT2150 also outperforms state-of-the-art cellular chipset power consumption, which will be critical to the proliferation of mobile WiMAX handheld devices".
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According to market research firm In-Stat, the total WiMAX user terminal chipset market will increase from US $27 million in 2007 to reach almost $500 million in 2012, and WiMAX basestation semiconductor revenues are expected to increase from $130 million in 2007 to approximately $1.4 billion in 2012.
"Altair is an innovative and very promising startup in a burgeoning new market - battery operated WiMAX handheld devices", says Brad Holtzinger, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at MIPS Technologies.
"We're pleased that Altair has chosen IP from the MIPS Processor and analogue Business Groups for its groundbreaking new processor".
"This is yet another example of a device benefiting from the combined power of MIPS' analogue and processor IP offering".
"Licensees like Altair continue to drive the value of MIPS even further into the area of portable devices".
MIPS Technologies' broad range of processor cores, from the low power MIPS32 M4K core to the industry's highest-performing MIPS32 74K core, offer distinct cost advantages to semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system OEMs worldwide.
MIPS also offers a wide array of silicon-proven RF, analogue and mixed-signal technologies for markets including wireless, digital media, power management, data transfer and connectivity.
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